July 2024 Third Print Competition

July 2024 Third Print Competition
It is late July and the third NOPS print competition of the year was about to take place. Going into this round Lester Woodward currently holds the top slot on 217 points with Lois Webb with a very close 215 points, so there is still all to play for & there are several other Outlaws that are challenging for the POOTY (print outlaw of the year title) tittle.
The judge for the evening was David Kissman who had visited at a similar time the previous year and on that occasion had really constructive comments/critique to offer the entrants.
There were two categories for David to judge, the Open category (a mix of various genres) and the Themed which was “Nature”. In total there were 23 entries in the open and 18 in the themed.
The Open competition again attracted a wide variety of genres of photography and the themed competition had many stunning images from the natural world. The prints were all worthy of hanging in any gallery.
Theme Nature
The theme contained many images from sea birds to garden varieties, animals and trees, there were images representing all aspects of the natural world and David judged them within the constraints of NEMPF rules.
Ten images were held back by David for final scoring and the winner was Nigel Stewart with his image entitled THE ELEPHANT FAMILY.

The winning image by Nigel Stewart entitled THE ELEPHANT FAMILY









Held Images
Lester Woodward scored 17 with ORIENTAL MAGPIE-ROBIN, Chris Houldsworth scored 18 with WHITE RHINO AFTER A MUDBATH, 18 points went to Lester Woodward with PLAY FIGHT IN THE SURF, Lois Webb scored 18 with STILL LIFE. Malcolm Nabarro scored 18 with FEASTING BEE, 19 points went to Malcolm Nabarro with ANCIENT SHERWOOD OAK, 19 points awarded to Lois Webb with MACACA FUSCATA DRINKING, 19 to Lester Woodward with YELLOW GLASSY TIGER BUTTERFLY, Nigel Stewart scored 19 with WAXWING WITH BERRY, the winner of the category and 20 points was awarded to Nigel Stewart with his image THE ELEPHANT FAMILY taken on a reserve in Sri Lanka.
Open category
David offered good constructive comments with focus on level horizons, skies, elements of image balance, shapes and angles including leading lines.
In the open category 8 images were held back for final judging and the winner was Lois Webb with her image entitled RUM RUNNER WORKS.

The winning image by Lois Webb entitled RUM RUNNER WORKS







Held Images
Chris Holdsworth scored 18 with St PAULS CATHEDRAL, Ray Andrews 18 with LOCHAN NAH-ACHLAISE, Lester Woodward 18 with TOTAL EFFORT, 19 points went to Chris Holdsworth with SKOGAFOSS, Malcolm Nabarro with SOLAR POWER & his other entry LANGDALE PIKE FROM BLEA TARN, LOIS Webb scored 19 with NAXI FARMER PORTRAIT. The win was awarded to Lois Webb with a score of 20 points for her winning image entitled RUM RUNNER WORKS an architectural image taken in Birmingham UK whilst a number of the Outlaws were on a day’s out photo shoot.
The Outlaws would like to thank David for providing everyone who entered with beneficial comments and appreciation of their works. David commented that the elements of a good image in his opinion were environment, composition, sharpness, texture and focus to name but a few. David gave detailed critique before scoring all the images presented to him.