Shaftesbury Camera Club

This was our third match with Aspley CC who are a similar but slightly stronger club than us, judging by the results.  These international matches are interesting because they break across some of the fashions in photography as well as in judging.  There are also some differences in how competitions are run.  For example, in […]

This was the final round of our annual trophy competition to find our Photographer of the Year. It was originally scheduled to take place at the end of January but we had to postpone it due to the snowfall. We had booked Mike Weeks to come and judge our Ladies v Gents competition on the […]

Some words soon… SCC WCPF DPIC 2018Exeter, Sunday 10th Feb 2019Judges Gwen Charnock  Phil Charnock Peter YoungBlue Ice Andy Hargreaves14Feed Me Val Saxby12Midnight Storm Chris Wildey12Railway Ghosts Tony Ward12Ready Val Saxby12Signalling the end of the day Tony Ward12Spiral Andy Hargreaves12A grey day on the coast Sue Boddington11Reflection at sunrise David Lampard11There is always one Sue Boddington11Honestly Im in the blue team Don Rossi11Back lit puffin Val Saxby11Namaste Claire […]

This season’s Western Counties Photographic Federation DPIC competition was held on Sunday 10th Feb in Exeter and the headline news is that this year, our club scored 200, coming in the top half at 26th= out of 57 clubs. To see the detailed results please log in and follow this link…

Last year, we didn’t fare at all well coming 50th= out of 57 clubs with a score of 179. The table below plots our performance over the years…

WCPF DPIC Shaftesbury Camera Club Results…
Year	Score/270	Position	No of Clubs
2015	191	20=	47
2016	191	34=	56
2017	179	33=	55
2018	179	50=	57
2019	200	26=	57

We had eight entries for our annual audio-visual evening this season. Members voted by rating their favourites 1, 2 or 3. The overall winner by a substantial margin was Richard Blake with his “These Boots”. Dan H came 2nd with “A baffled traveller” with Jeffrey B coming a very close 3rd with “Wildlife in the garden”.

Congratulations to Richard for winning and thanks to Brian for organising it.

Once again, a very large entry with 28 prints (14 entrants) and 46 PDIs (23 entrants) giving a total of 74 images from 25 members and only just less than our first round last month.  We had pre-warned our guest judge, Amanda Miller, about the large entry but she was quite confident it was manageable. […]

The Bradford Abbas Shield is a local derby hosted by Sherborne Bradford Abbas with entries from South Petherton, Wincanton, Yeovil and Shaftesbury.  The judge is always a closely guarded secret even from SBA themselves.  SBA to date has always chosen the subject but they announced in future the subject would be chosen by the winners.  […]

Once again, the first round of our annual competition to find our “Photographer of the Year” elicited a large entry but fortunately not quite too many to cope with in a single night although it did  leave our guest judge Jim Pascoe with a formidable task and against the clock. The subject for the first […]