Rosebowl Day: Amanda Wright Reports
/Sunday 21st April was the Rosebowl Final where the top scoring 12 clubs from the three round matches (each round with different clubs) battle it out to take overall best club in the CACC. Although once again Stoke Poges didn’t enter the final so it was out of 11 clubs. It was fairly well attended with Rick, Dennis, Annie and myself and a couple of Northfields members were there too.
In the morning the Rosebowl Stars Competition was very ably judged by Naomi Saul ARPS DPAGB EFIAP BPE4 ASINWP APAGB from the East Anglia Federation who didn’t shy away from creative images and applauded all genres equally I thought, although she wasn’t giving marks to these images, just 3 Highly Commended and a Best Image, which was won by Neil Jackson of Field End with Morning Light In Newlands Valley.
Naomi also judged the second competition, The Phone Photography Competition and seemed to be extremely impressed by the quality achievable on a mobile phone. Here she awarded marks as well as 8 Highly Commendeds. The Best Image went to Ian Nock of Maidenhead for Sunset In The City. All the images from both these competitions can be found on the CACC website.
After the CACC AGM and lunch it was the Rosebowl Final Competition judged by Graeme Wales ARPS CPAGB BPE2 from the Surrey Photographic Association. As you can imagine several of the images in this competition were also in the Stars Competition so it was interesting to see them judged by someone different. I did pick up a pattern of leaning towards Natural History images for the top scorers so felt we were once again at a bit of a disadvantage. Our top score was 18 which went to
Homage to It by Emmanuel
Lady Of The Manor by Paul Mason
Eastern Eyes by Dennis Durack
Very well done guys, he was very harsh on creative and portrait shots. Nevertheless, EHHPS came 6th overall and Northfields were delighted not to have come last! Yay!!
The 8 top scoring images can be found on the CACC website.
(Amanda Wright)
