27 January 2026 (Match An Image Competition)

Posted on 28/01/2026 by stevenmbeard

On Tuesday, 27th January we visited Haddington Camera Club for the “Match an Image” competition, which took place at the Poldrate Granary in Haddington. The competition was judged by landscape photographer Stephen Ball, who gave us a talk last year on “Scotland Behind the Lens”. You can see more of Stephen Ball’s work on his web site:

Scotland Captured – Photographer Stephen Ball

Musselburgh began the competition with Jennifer’s image of the googly-eyed elephant, which Haddington attempted to match with a picture of a tree, but there was no match because Haddington’s image did not have any google eyes. Haddington began with an image of some street signs, and the closest thing in our collection was Melanie’s close up of railings; again no match. Then we played the “unmatchable” abstract kaleidoscope image that Steven had made in the Royal Botanical Gardens. Haddington replied with an abstract spiral swirl. Stephen declared a match and also declared that Haddington had the better image, which gave 2 points to Haddington! Things got worse when Haddington played an image of a man sitting down with one of his boots poking through a metal stand. We thought we had nailed a match by replying with Derek’s image of a ballerina wearing boots with one of her boots poking through the side of a chair. But there was no match because the ballerina was standing up. Stephen commented that he thought ours was the better image, but you don’t win the points unless you match. We noticed that Haddington appeared to be short of animal images, so we tried Derek’s image of a green frog sitting on a red flower. Haddington replied with an abstract image of some green leaves, which was declared a match and also declared the better image. Another 2 points to Haddington. Haddington then posted an image of some skeletons sitting around a dinner table. We raised a laugh when we attempted to match it with an image of some teddy bears sitting on a tree stump. No match. We had a lot of good sport images this year, so next we lead with George’s cracking shot of a canoeist negotiating the rapids at Grantully. Haddington matched it and beat it with a picture of a breaking wave. “The canoeist has drowned!”, we all exclaimed. Another 2 points to Haddington. By the end of the first half we were trailing by 11 points to 17.

Haddington helped us drown our sorrows during the interval by providing a delicious spread of home made sandwiches, cakes, scones and biscuits. With half our images gone, could we catch up during the second half? Our luck changed in the second half. We successfully matched Haddington’s image of a man surrounded by smoke with Derek’s image of a man swirling fire sticks above his head, and ours was declared the better image! We managed to match Haddington’s astrophotography image of the bubble nebula with Kevin’s water droplet abstract. We also successfully matched a long exposure street shot with tram tracks by playing a photo of a pair of vintage trams taken at Beamish museum. Matches became harder as the second half progressed and our image pool diminished. We gained points by playing our sport and animal images, but we also failed to match their images (although I think we came close when we attempted to match their image of some upturned wheel barrows with our image abandoned boats). “They are a similar shape and they both carry things”, we exclaimed, but Stephen was having none of it. We played our image of the inside of the National Museum too early; attempting to use it to match Haddington’s abstract image of some light domes. You could sense the air of disappointment when the next image they played was of the inside of a railway station, looking almost exactly like our image of the museum. The competition ended with Haddington placing their last image: a snowy landscape. Could we match it? No, our image image was a shot of a pair of fighter aircraft in flight. Stephen mentioned again that he thought ours was the better image, but again you don’t win the points unless you match. We caught up a little during the second half, but the final scores were still:

Haddington – 28 points.
Musselburgh – 24 points.

It was an enjoyable competition from start to finish. The heckling and commentary from the audience was entertaining. Although the final result is disappointing (and at times we felt some of the decisions needed to be verified by VAR) we gave Haddington a run for their money, and a lot of our images went down well with the judge and with the audience. Thank you to Haddington for hosting the competition and providing a sumptuous feast at the interval, thank you to all the Musselburgh members who provided images and came to Haddington to support their club, and thank you to Stephen Ball for judging and putting up with our heckles.

This Thursday, 29th January, George Todd will be revealing the results of our first set subject competition, on the theme of “Weather”.

22 January 2026 (Photoshoot Preparation)

Posted on 26/01/2026 by stevenmbeard

This week, Derek Muller and Mike Clark gave us some advice on taking better landscape photographs. It could be said that landscape photographs are the purest form of photography, because they are all about capturing light. You can’t control the light on the landscape but you can wait until the lighting is right before capturing your image. Landscape photographs often include something in the foreground to draw you into the picture. Leading lines (such as from a path, the coastline or a line of trees or rocks) are especially good at doing that. Landscape photographers often travel to remote places, but you can also get good landscape images from your own neighbourhood. If you have a local view that you think would look good as a landscape shot, keep visiting the place in different weather conditions and at different times of the day, and keep trying until you get the shot that you think the place deserves. Notice where the light is coming from, think about where you would like it to come from, and come back when the sun is in the right place. There are some apps you can use on your phone to predict where the sun and moon will be at a particular time when viewed from any location (particularly useful if you are planning a sunset or moonrise photo).

The Photographers Ephemeris (TPE): Designed for landscape and night photography.

Sun Surveyor: More detailed info for the sun and moon.

Derek described two kinds of landscape photography:

Standard landscape photography is where you photograph the landscape in front of you, capturing a stunning composition when the light is at its best.
Alternative landscape photography is where you do something a little different, such as capturing an unusual subject as if it was a landscape image. You can photograph unusual things (such as a plate of daisies) in a landscape setting. John West’s image of paperclip figures on the beach is a good example. Another possibility would be to get down low with a macro lens and treat all the bumps on the ground as if they were hills.

Mike showed us a collection of landscape shots taken around Scotland. He showed how two shots of the same location (such as the Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye or the falls at Glencoe) could look very different in different kinds of light. You can produce a dreamy, milky effect from running or splashing water by using a long exposure, although the extreme milky shots used to be more fashionable a few years ago. Nowadays it is better to keep the exposure short enough so there is some dreaminess but you can still see some detail in the water. Neutral density filters can be used to take long exposures in daylight. Their effect is explained on the following web site:

How to Choose the Right ND Filter for Long-Exposure Effects

Landscape photographs often (but not always) need the maximum depth of field, so all the objects from the foreground to the distant background are sharp. There is a “magic” focus distance (known as the hyperfocal distance) that you can set manually for a particular camera, lens and aperture that gives the maximum depth of field. Here are some examples of a web site or app you can use to calculate the hyperfocal distance.

PhotoPills: Hyperfocal Distance Table

HyperFocal Pro app

Finally, we discussed the plans for our Saturday photoshoot to Cramond Island. You can only cross the causeway to the island at low tide. The Queensferry Lifeboat Station web site has downloadable PDFs giving safe crossing times. You can also a phone app such as AnyTide or TidePoint. In the end we had a successful photoshoot, in spite of the cold wind and damp conditions. The misty environment and soft sunlight produced softer shadows and stronger colours that improved a lot of our shots. So, you don’t necessarily need good weather to get good landscape shots, although keeping your hands warm is essential for operating the camera controls! After the photoshoot we all escaped to a nearby cafe for hot chocolate or coffee. Thank you to Derek for organising the photoshoot and giving us some challenges to accomplish.

On Tuesday, 27th January we will be joining Haddington Camera Club for the Match An Image competition. The competition starts at 7:30pm at the Poldrate Mill, Haddington (also home of the Poldrate Arts and Crafts Centre). Click on the following map for directions:

Haddington Camera Club location: Google Maps

This Thursday, 29th January, George Todd will be judging the first of our three set subject competitions on the theme of “weather”. Come along to the Fisherrow Centre at the usual time.

08 January 2026 (Human Portrait Print Competition)

Posted on 10/01/2026 by stevenmbeard

Happy New Year! The season restarted with our annual Human Portrait Print Competition. George Robertson, who had given us these fantastic talks on mountain photography, returned to the club as judge rather than speaker.

23 September 2021 (Into the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods)

22 September 2022 (George Robertson: The Snows of Kilimanjaro)

31 October 2024 (George Robertson: Exploring Kathmandu and the Khumbu Valley)

George explained that when he judges prints he first splits them into two piles, 20 points and 17 points, based on their initial impact. He then waits a couple of days and looks again at the prints to see if any had gone into the wrong pile. Finally, he looks in more detail and subtracts points for technical issues such as sharpness, exposure or processing faults.

36 prints had been entered by 12 members. Some period portraits had been taken at Duncarron Medieval Village or at a battle re-enactment such as the battle of Prestonpans. There were also some travel portraits and studio portraits, including some of club members taken at our recent creative lighting workshop or studio night. George recognised the familiar faces. George critiqued the impact and engagement of each image, noting whether the pose, expression and composition helped or hindered the intended story. Most of the images were sharp where they needed to be (on the eyes of the subject) but some were sharper than others. The emphasis needed to be on the face, and in some images the face wasn’t the brightest area. There were also some images where dark clothing appeared to merge with a dark background. George also spotted some post-processing faults and noted that some prints had a yellow or magenta tint. He suggested using the texture tool in Adobe Lightroom to soften or roughen the face, depending on the situation (e.g. soften for a beauty shot or roughen for a battle scenario). Here is a YouTube video explaining how to do this:

YouTube video demonstrating the Adobe Lightroom “texture” tool.

George finished by revealing the top images which gave him the most impact but had fewest technical faults. He suggested we look closely into the eyes of the top image, “Beauty can be Fragile”, to see the detail and sharpness. When all the scores were added up, the top scorers were (in reverse order):

5th place (49 points)
- Carol Edmond
- Jennifer Davidson
4th place (50 points)
- Mike Clark
3rd place (51 points)
- Melanie Gallacher
2nd place (53 points)
- George Todd
1st place (55 points)
- Derek Muller

George’s top images were:

Beauty can be Fragile (Derek Muller) – 20 points
Touch of Elegance (Melanie Gallacher) – 19 points
Soothsayer has Concerns (Derek Muller) – 19 points
Kalon – Ink Tells My Story (George Todd) – 18 points
Red Haired Beauty (Mike Clark) – 18 points
Woodland Queen (Jennifer Davidson) – 18 points

Well done to Derek for winning the trophy and for producing such a magnificent top image. Well done also to George and Melanie for their consistently high quality entries. Thank you to everyone who entered and thank you to George Robertson for judging the competition and giving us some good advice.

Please send your 3 “weather” images to George Todd as soon as possible.
Next week we have a club where we can take the opportunity to look at the 21 images that we missed seeing at the Black and White Print Competition on 4th December. This is unlikely to take the whole evening, so if you have a photograph from the Christmas holidays that you would like to show, please bring it along and we can show it at the end (depending on how much time we have).

11 Dec 2025 (Eddie Telford: Remember Photography is Fun – Part 2)

Posted on 12/12/2025 by stevenmbeard

This week Eddie Telford returned to Musselburgh Camera Club to give us another custom talk. When he last spoke to us back in April 2024 the custom themes were “Remember Photography is Fun” and “Around the World in 80 Images”. This time he resumed the “Remember Photography is Fun” theme and added some advice on the theme of “From Beginner to Advanced”. Eddie began by telling us not to worry about competitions and scores. The main reason to take up photography is to have fun. Eddie showed us some examples of the joke photographs he had made: for example a photograph of someone slumped over a chair mimicking a yoga āsana, or showing the mischief at home that children got up to during the Covid pandemic. The “Nessie” toy (who likes whisky and now has his own passport) features in many of Eddie’s fun travel photographs.

Eddie described his recent experience photographing the Women’s Open Golf Championship at Dundonald Links. He sets his camera to silent mode and takes his photos from a distance with a long lens (to avoid disturbing the players) and tries to take one shot just at the moment the ball is struck. If he is lucky, the ball will still be in the shot. Eddie also likes bunker shots because the sand can fly into some dramatic shapes. Besides the action shots, Eddie also captures portraits of the players, first when they are concentrating on their shot or posing with their trophy, and then a few minutes later when they have relaxed. The relaxed portraits looks more natural. Eddie also showed us some images he captured at a youth competition organised by Bowls Scotland. The story begins with drone images showing the initial setup, followed by some action shots, this time captured at the moment when the player releases the ball.

Eddie is a member of Ayr Photographic Society and often supplies images to Ayrshire Magazine. Eddie was keen to point out that Ayr Photographic Society won the SPF Digital Championship this year for the first time in 35 years! He described two fashion photoshoots he made for the magazine: one was with the 2024 Miss Scotland, shot on the Ayrshire sea front, and the other was a shoot with the winner of Miss Great Britain at Turnberry. There was also a photoshoot covering the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Institute. Eddie was surprised at the images chosen by the magazine, but they wanted images that emphasised the characteristics (such as the jewellery or a particular look) featured in their articles. Eddie prefers natural-looking shots where the model looks relaxed. Magazines also like images that have a lot of empty space where they can add titles. Eddie also showed us how photographers and artists can help each other. He has collaborated with local artist, Rona Mcseveny, who converted Eddie’s photograph of Ayr Town Hall into an artwork which became the Lord Provost’s official Christmas Card.

Eddie showed us an audio-visual he made to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in Ayr, including the “Field of Heroes” art exhibition. Eddie finished with an audio-visual advertising the spectacular scenery of Dunure, which was used to raise money for Dynamic Dunure, a local charity. We finished the night with a chat with Eddie over tea and biscuits. Thank you Eddie for a another great presentation. We look forward to your next visit.

Next week we have our Christmas night out at the Lido restaurant in Musselburgh. Our table is booked from 7pm on Thursday, 19th December 2025. See you there.

04 December 2025 (Black and White Print Competition)

Posted on 09/12/2025 by stevenmbeard

Our Black and White print competition was judged on 4th December 2025 by Malcolm Lind from Blairgowrie. Malcolm, a former school teacher with an interest in photography, history and archaeology, explained that he has been taking photographs since he was 3 years old. His first photograph was of his father looming over him trying to explain how to hold the camera steady. He joined Perth Photographic Society in 1999 and spent some time as the club president. Malcolm explained that he is not going to tell us how to take photographs. Each print will be judged on how well it makes an impression and tells a story.

42 prints had been entered by 14 members. Unfortunately, a folder containing 21 of the prints had been missed, so only the first 21 prints were presented on the night. However, presenting only 21 prints allowed Malcolm to go into great detail. Malcolm felt that the title of a print was very important, as it revealed what the photographer was trying to achieve. Being a historian, Malcolm recognised some of the scenes and told the story of the subjects being photographed. For example, the cross at North Berwick is a memorial to Catherine Watson, who lost her life while rescuing children in a storm; and Durham Cathedral is placed at a strategic bend on the River Wear. John Fowler’s “Last Look” brought back memories of the demolition of Cockenzie Power Station. Malcolm enjoyed the historical photographs from Beamish Museum, as the trams and steam engines gave him a feeling of nostalgia. There were a number of costumed portraits that were judged on the consistency of their story. Mike Clark’s portrait of a soldier demonstrated the classic “1000 yard stare” of someone who was traumatised and exhausted. Some of the other portraits contained anachronisms. Why was this soldier in an 18th century costume also wearing trainers and a watch chain, for example? You could get away with these inconsistencies if the title and composition reveals that the intended effect is cosplay, steam punk, or a joke. Carol Edmond’s Beetlejuice portrait had an iWatch, but the facial expression and and pose showed that this was unabashed cosplay. Malcolm liked prints where the photographer had gone the extra mile to show something unusual, and this was reflected in the scores. A few days later, Malcolm sent us the scores for the remaining 21 images, and when the final scores were added the final result was (in reverse order):

5th place (49 points)
- Jennifer Davidson
4th place (50 points)
- John Fowler
- Derek Muller
- Melanie Gallacher
3rd place (52 points)
- Steven Beard
2nd place (53 points)
- Mike Clark
1st place (54 points)
- George Todd

The top images were:

Finger Tree (Steven Beard) – 20 points
Breaking the Rapids (George Todd) – 19 points
Exmoor Pony (Mike Clark) – 19 points
Last Look (John Fowler) – 18 points
Storm Riders (George Todd) – 18 points

But that short list doesn’t reflect the overall quality of the images submitted. 11 images were good enough to score 17 points. Well done to George for winning, and to Mike and Steven for achieving 2nd and 3rd places by just 1 point behind. Thank you to Malcolm Lind for judging the competition and for entertaining us with his critique. Malcolm has sent us his critique for the 21 images that we didn’t see, which I’ll bring along this Thursday.

If you have 3 mounted prints to enter for our Human Portrait Print competition, please bring them along on Thursday and give them to George Todd. Please also email a JPEG version of your 3 images to georgetodd1957@me.com.

27 November 2025 (Jean Manson: Realm of the Tiger)

Posted on 01/12/2025 by stevenmbeard

This week we welcomed back Jean Manson to the club to tell us more about her passion for wildlife conservation through the medium of photography. You can see some of Jean’s work in her gallery site and her Zoological Photographic Club page:

https://www.jeanmanson.gallery/browse/

https://zpc-naturefolio.weebly.com/jean-manson.html

Last time, Jean spoke to us about the wildlife in Alaska in “A Fragile Wilderness”, where she had remarked on the sparseness of the human population. This time, we learned about her recent visits to India, where the human population is much denser but there are still national parks devoted to preserving the natural wildlife. In 1973 the Indian government initiated Project Tiger, which set up wildlife reserves to protect the endangered Bengal tiger. Due to the success of that project, India now has the largest tiger population in the world. Jean visited two of those wildlife reserves:

Jean explained how her guides would track the tigers by looking for pugmarks, scratches and tell-tale alarm calls from other animals. She explained how tigers and leopards are in competition with each other, so you tend not to see both at the same time. During her visits she had seen more leopards in Satpura and more tigers in Bandhavgarh. She showed us photographs not only of the majestic tiger and leopard, but of birds, elephants, chital deer, monkeys, giant squirrel and a very rare grey wolf. Jean brought some of the prints and display boards from her recent exhibition at the Biggar Little Festival, and we finished the evening chatting and browsing through the prints. Thank you Jean for a very entertaining and enlightening evening.

This Thursday, 4th December, we have our Black and White print competition, judged by Malcolm Lind.
It’s also time to prepare entries for the Human Portrait print competition. The hand-in date is 11th December.

24 November 2025 (4 Way Inter-Club Competition)

Posted on 26/11/2025 by stevenmbeard

Our annual 4-way interclub competition took place on Monday, 24th November 2025. Musselburgh Camera Club members joined members from Kirkcaldy Photographic Society and Stirling and District Camera Club to visit Edinburgh Photographic Society at their premises in Great King Street in Edinburgh. Edinburgh had laid on a feast of drinks, sandwiches and cakes. The competition was judged by Ricki O’Niell, an internationally acclaimed artist and photographer from Dundee. Ricki had a train to catch, so the competition whizzed by at a faster pace than usual.

Each club had submitted 15 digital images, making a grand total of 60 images. This year we were up against several images that had scored highly in the 2025 SPF Digital Championship, so the competition was tough. Edinburgh’s first image called “Apotheosis” got them onto a good start by getting 19 points. Kirkcaldy followed with a lovely landscape called “Break in the Rain at Tiumpan Head” which scored 17. Musselburgh’s first image was “Barn Own” by Derek Muller, which was awarded 16 points. The disappointing trend continued when of our most dramatic image, George Todd’s “Quad Launch”, only scored 15 because it didn’t look realistic. Most of our images achieved reasonable average scores, but we had fewer top images than the other clubs, and that made a difference. We ended up in last place for the second successive year with the final scores:

1st place equal: Edinburgh Photographic Society, 257 points.
1st place equal: Kirkcaldy Photographic Society, 257 points.
3rd place: Stirling and District Camera Club, 254 points.
4th place: Musselburgh Camera Club, 246 points.

The top scoring images in the competition were:

Root Cellar Delights (Stirling) – 20 points.
Well-timed Duck (Kirkcaldy) – 20 points.

Our top images were:

Frosted Whiskers (George Todd) – 19 points.
Proud Woodpecker (Malcolm Roberts) – 18 points.
Strength Against the Current (George Todd) – 18 points.
Dave, Going His Own Way (Derek Muller) – 18 points.

The early finish gave us more time to chat in Edinburgh’s lovely premises. Well done to George, Malcolm and Derek for holding up against such tough competition. It looks like we need to try harder next year.

20 November 2025 (Soft Focus and Double Exposure Workshop)

Posted on 26/11/2025 by stevenmbeard

We spent the club meeting on 20th November learning some techniques that we could try on our Saturday photoshoot at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. We tried two different techniques:

1) Double Exposures

This technique combines two or more exposures together to create a surprising result. Try “double exposure photography examples” as a Google search to see some example images. Common examples include portraits blended with natural or architectural silhouettes, or multiple poses blended together. Exposures can be combined in-camera, or they can be captured separately and blended later using software such as Adobe Photoshop. The following YouTube videos show how to set up a Canon camera:

Ask David Bergman: A Step-by-Step Guide for In-Camera Multiple Exposures

Eric Floberg: How to Shoot a DOUBLE EXPOSURE In-Camera [2023]

If you explore the “shooting menu”, you’ll find Nikon cameras have a similar setup. We discovered that all our cameras had slightly different ways of setting up double exposures, and the newer cameras had more options. If your camera doesn’t have a multiple exposure option, you can still take single exposures and blend them in Photoshop. We tried a few experiments inspired by Leonardo de Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.

2) Soft Focus Techniques

Hans van der Boom had given the club a talk on improving flower photograph using soft focus techniques back in April 2024. Bob Daalder also describes how he uses soft focus techniques in macro photography in the following blog:

Macro Photography: Discover the Little World with Bob Daalder

We explored the following soft focus techniques:

Using a wide aperture to blur the background.
Making a double exposure (as described above) but combining an in-focus image of a flower with an out of focus image.
Using coloured cellophane to mask off an area you want to be out of focus.
Using an out of focus image of a crinkled piece of Aluminium foil to create some foreground bokeh.

We discovered that both techniques need a lot of practice to get right, but it is fun to experiment. We came away from our Botanics photoshoot with lots of weird and wonderful images.

13 November 2025 (Live Shooting Workshop)

Posted on 15/11/2025 by musselburghcameraclub

In a wee change in plan, this evening’s programme was provided by Derek to help folks obtain sharper looking photos and to present prints in the best light (see what I did there?) by mounting prints very neatly.

The evening started with a demonstration of mounting prints using double-sided tape. This is suggested in place of using the 3M Photo Mount adhesive. Photo Mount spray can get messy and there is quite a strong smell that can linger for hours. There is also the danger of spreading the adhesive while you set the print in place. The tape is tearable, or you can use scissors. For window mounts, the tape is applied to the four sides of the rear of the window. Using the tape roll to prop up the window front mount to allow the print to be positioned. The protective film is removed from one of the sides and this side is used to secure the print in place. The other three sides can then have their protective strips removed so that each side can be secured in turn. Four lengths of adhesive tape are then stuck to the rear mount card. Again the tape roll can be used to hold the print up off the adhesive tape, to allow positioning and the edges are each stuck down in turn. An additional suggestion was to obtain a roll of wallpaper lining paper. Once cut to size, the paper is easily flattened out under a box for a few hours and it makes a decent “cartridge paper” backing for photographic print mounts.

The rest of the evening was taken up with a few lighting setups with still life subjects. The idea was to see how the direction of light can influence the contrast and apparent sharpness of photographs. When the light was positioned directly in front of the subject, providing flat illumination with little contrast showing. As the light source was positioned further to the side, contrast increases and the apparent sharpness of the image is enhanced. This effect is apparently, is called “acutance”. Look it up on Wikipedia, or better still, just see what effect it has on your photos.

It was an interesting and fun evening, with folks getting the chance to talk to each other.

Regards

06 November 2025 (Colour Print Competition)

Posted on 07/11/2025 by stevenmbeard

This week we welcomed Dougie Allan, secretary and webmaster for Penicuik Photography Club, to judge our Colour Print competition. On his last visit Dougie had given us a talk on drone photography, and he is now experimenting with astrophotography. You can see some of Dougie’s work in his Penicuik Photography Club gallery. Fortunately, he managed to avoid the traffic jam outside Musselburgh that had held up some members.

56 prints had been entered by 19 members. Dougie said that it was tricky to judge a competition where there was one category for both beginners and advanced photographers. A few mounts had been spoiled by blobs of glue, but this didn’t affect their marks. He commented on the lighting, sharpness and composition of each print. Some lovely portrait prints were a little dark and could be improved with extra lighting, especially a light to separate the model’s dark hair from a dark background. Dougie preferred candid shots where the people shown appear to be unaware of the photographer. There were also a few wildlife shots that were a little too dark to show detail in dark areas. It isn’t possible to use a flash with these shots, but Dougie suggested a slightly longer exposure and some dodging and burning to make the final corrections. Some of the prints were a little too tight in the frame and others had areas of blank space that could have been cropped out. Dougie recommended shooting a slightly wider angle than you need, which gives you the opportunity to crop the image before printing and include enough space around the edges. Dougie liked several of the prints, but it was small differences in sharpness and depth of field that separated the top marks. The top scorers were (in reverse order):

5th place (50 points)
- Carol Edmond.
4th place (51 points)
- Joe Fowler
- Elaine Gilroy
3rd place (52 points)
- Mike Clark
- Edward Robertson
- Jennifer Davidson
- Nicola Cawthorne
2nd place (55 points)
- Derek Muller
1st place (58 points)
- George Todd