2016 NOPS vs RAGIORA Final Results

With both legs of the inter club competition against Rangiora now complete, external competition secretary Lester Woodward presents his report, an Excel spreadsheet of the scores can be found here (download link).

The now annual competition with Rangiora Photographic Society of New Zealand saw a change to our normal structure. After conversations with their comp sec Catherine we came up with the idea of a themed only competition. This in itself caused some interest coming up with the themes, eventually the following 5 themes were agreed upon.

Creative Vision

Landscape

Natural History

Portrait

Street.

Within each theme each club would submit 5 images, all by different authors!. So straight away Portrait and Natural History could be tricky.

 

The judge for the evening was Roy Maddison, Rangiora had already judged the competition so a winner would be known on the night.

The Held images were as follows:

In the Creative Section:

Fluid Collision by NOPS – Steve Roper

An excellent image of a simple water droplet (but tricky to get right)

Hair Flick by NOPS – Sue Jackson

Sues lovely image of ladies “enjoying” the water down at Colwick Park.

 

In the Landscape Section:

BBC by NOPS – John Purchase

Great long exposure of the BBC building in Manchester

EVENING SCULPTURE by RPS

A nice evocative sunset shot

TEMPLES AT DUSK by NOPS – Tom Cross

Toms great moody image of the temples of Myanmar

TOWER BRIDGE by NOPS – Paul Mckinley

Big city bright lights, got to love those Nikon starbursts

 

In the Natural History Section

CALOTES CALOTES by NOPS – Lester Woodward

Not the bug eating critter again

LONG TAILED TIT by NOPS – John Purchase

Tit on a stick, but very well done.

OPEN WIDE by NOPS – Steve Roper

Feeding swallows gets its reward a great shot, highlighting the right image in the right theme does well (it bombed a bit in “A story in a picture”.

 

In the Portrait Section

EYES WIDE OPEN by RPS

A rather nice monochrome baby photograph

HANGIN’ by RPS

Almost a street portrait of some youngsters

MR DAWSON by NOPS – Lois Webb

Mr Dawson with his traction engine, great gritty face

OPHELIA AT THE GATE by RPS

Not really my cup of tea, but you can admire te quality of the light, with the girl looking through the gate

 

 

 

In the Street Section

AMBITION by NOPS – George Reilly

Great spot by George, the hashtags make this image

CONSPIRATORS by John Hodgkinson

Lovely spot by John, this image weaves so many stories

THE TUNNEL by RPS

Very nice image of a chap in a tunnel, has a great geometric quality to it

 

The number of held images roughly reflected the way the scoring went overall between the two clubs, On the night a best overall image was selected, this went down to a decision between, THE TUNNEL for RPS vs TEMPLES AT DUSK for NOPS by Tom Cross, TEMPLES AT DUSK being chosen. Well done Tom.

 

In the final tally from the NOPS leg,

NOPS 423   RPS 382

From the RPS leg

NOPS 284   RPS 267

Giving Grand Total scores of

NOPS 707

RPS 649

 

So an overall win for NOPS, well done to all those who had images selected, especially the number of different authors. and congratulations to Tom Cross for overall winner.   However, not to forget Paul Mckinley with his image OPEN WIDE which was chosen as the overall winner by RPS, well done Paul.

 

I personally think that an entirely themed competition worked quite well, it did remove the more obvious problems we have had in previous years competitions of “thats a UK image or NZ image”.

Well done to NOPS, special thanks to Tom for organising the judge and a big thank-you to John Young for running the evening.

Just make sure we have lots of great images for next year!