The Steve Ransom trophy and Portfolio composition were combined this season. The subject being landscape (loosely interpreted) to represent a location. Geoff Clinton took the honours and retains the Steve Ransom trophy with his excellent landscapes from Tromso, Norway. Coming second Mark Porter showing imaginative images of Seville.

Four hardy souls visited the local adventure playground after dark on Tuesday. Under the 'guidance?' of Richard, several tools and techniques were tried with varying degrees of success. The lovely orange yellow flowing image above was done using some 'proper' light painting tubes, but the other images were very much 'budget' tools.  The set of circles was created using just some cheap ice sticks from Morrisons, The 'spirograph' like image was a strip of LEDs stuck on a long piece of wood, and the globe was a set of Halloween fairy lights (and plentiful duck tape!). The final image demonstrates that although fundamentally straightforward, there is some practice required to achieve the best results!

This round of the print league had a very healthy 54 entries at a very good standard. First place with appropriately titled Winner takes all was by Geoff Clinton who had a total of 3 prints held back. Second place taken by Anglia McClean with portrait of Octavia and third was Graham Adamson with Bill Toucan.

This round was almost the Graham Adamson show taking first and third places with Felixstow after the Storm and Vesterhorn A walk on the beach respecively. The clean sweep was interupted by Roger Attard taking second place with Converging Canary - Reflected Hoops.

This competition is in memory of Albert Beale a past member who concentrated on reflections images. The Albert Beeale trophy is awarded to the winner each year. This year the honour goes to Chris Bennett for her A boatload of glass balls image. Taking second and third places (although no trophy) was Machael Colman with Loch Eil Michael Colman and Under an Olive Tree.

This week saw an internal competition for Light Painting to encourage putting into practice light painting techniques shown in the club presentation a few weeks ago.  Voting was by members, Richard Craddock taking the top spot with his Birds Nest image. Runners up were Colin McInnes and Chris Bennett.

The first Print league competition of 2023/4, but also the first since before the pandemic (excluding a trial competition last season). An excellent turnout of 64 prints all of a good standard and taking the prize of first was Juliet Morton with 'Colours of Water'. Taking second with 'Ruffous Tailed Hummingbird'  Emma Mapletoft and snatching third Chris Williams with 'Boarding Time'.

This season's first PI competition has started with recently joined members taking the top spots. Graham Adamson took first and second places with "Red Riding Hood" and "Lake Bled" respectively. Third place went to Tony Calthorpe with "Camouflage at the Summer Exhibition".

This week, there were also two 'Highly commended' Images -  "Hamoya Coastline" by Emma Mapletoft and "The Riesenrad, Vienna" by Richard Craddock.

Latest league standings can be found in the page 'Projected Image League'.