Three Way Battle

This year the Photogroup challenged Southport and Wigan Photographic Societies to the print and DPI battle.
Our selectors Keith Hughes, Jeff Morgan and Francis Spooner (digital) and Michael and Rosemary Mutimer and Jim Price (prints)
had a an extremely difficult job choosing 10 for each section from 180 digital and 130 prints.
I started to climb a very steep learning curve to find out how to run a new competition programme for digital projection,
with a lot of help from Jim Price and Paul Leighton. Thank you to both for your patience.

With everything in place, tension mounted on Saturday evening as our visitors and judge, Colin Douglas arrived.
Prints were appraised first and finished with a tie between Southport and Wigan. Photogroup lagged behind.
Following the break, when everyone had a chance to view the prints proceedings resumed, after some technical problems with the projector were overcome.
Excitement mounted as the judge marked the DPI's and we realised that Photogroup were picking up marks.
We comfortably won this section and eventually, when the scores were combined, has finished in second place.

Once again we showed what a high standard of photography there is within the group.

Thank you to everyone who made the evening such a success and to all of you who brought images along, even if they were not selected.

Helen Smith