Thursday 24th February 2022
Tom Crowe Challenge and Jenny Fryer
Each year, Thornbury Camera Club invite other local camera clubs to a challenge in memory of Tom Crowe, a former chairman of their club. The invited clubs submit eight entries, with each image submitted having been taken by a different photographer, the competition is a battle between clubs rather than individuals. This year, there were four set categories to fulfil – Landscape, People, Creative and Night, the remaining four images were placed into Open categories. The competition was judged by Aleks Gjika EFIAP DPAGB who spoke at length about each of the sixty four submissions, giving his own personal thoughts, comments and mark as each image was displayed. At the end of each round the scores were totalled and a leader board displayed showing each club’s mark and photographer for that round and a running total for each club. As it has been in other years, it was a tightly fought competition with superb images entered by each and every club. At the end of the evening when the final scores were displayed I am very pleased to say that Tyndale Photography Club took first place with a total score of 150 points. Congratulations are due to all photographers who entered, thanks are due to those in each club who organised and pulled the folio together for the competition and acknowledgement must be given to Thornbury Camera Club for, yet again, providing another great evening of entertainment.
Tyndale Photography Club images were:
Landscape – Lisemore Lighthouse – Bill Beere
Open – Hare On The Lookout – Mike Smith
People – Lockdown Again – Joan Scott
Open – Walkie Talkie Building – Brian Wetton
Creative – London Rain – Jenny Fryer LRPS
Open – Play It Again – Barry Wilson
Night – Night Crossing – Don Grundell
Open – Come To Me – Dave Rumsam
Jenny Fryer filled in the extra time available by entertaining us with several Audio Visuals. These included moving images from ‘The National Memorial Arboretum’ in Staffordshire, spectacular landscapes in ‘The French Alps’ and very cleverly put together images of ‘Our Planet Earth’.