Easter Ross photographer helps camera club to historic first win in Highland competition
AN Easter Ross photographer helped her camera club to an historic win with her hot shots.
Each year, the eight camera clubs in the north Highlands and Shetland hold The Highland Challenge, an interclub photographic competition.
Each club enters 10 images to be judged by an experienced and independent judge.
This year the competition was hosted by Dingwall Camera Club and judged by Ken Lindsay from Eastwood Photographic Society in Glasgow.
East Sutherland Camera Club have been taking part in the annual competition for many years with varying degrees of success, achieving third place last year.
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This year for the first time they won the competition, taking home the Highland Challenge Shield. Each club enters 10 images in colour or monochrome and each image is scored out of a maximum of 20 points.
Not only did the club win but they won by a commanding margin over last year’s winning club Nairn Camera Club. The icing on the cake was the fact that four of the ten club’s submitted images won class placings.
Martin Ross from Golspie won best monochrome print with the maximum of 20 points for his Memories of a Summer Rose, an imaginative and carefully composed still life.
In the same class Zoe Grey from Portmahomack came third with Passing Through which caught the sense of movement of an Edinburgh tram. Zoe went on to further success in the colour print class with Jen – Back on the Road which gained her second place. This was a well composed and staged image which encouraged the viewer to speculate on possible underlying stories. A fourth award was scooped by Sheila McKenzie from Bonar Bridge with her third placed Bunting with Cuckoo Spit. This was a fine example of a natural history image focussing on the bird and avoiding any background distractions.
New members are always welcome and the Club’s programme has an interesting combination of visiting speakers, workshop sessions and friendly competitions; it is designed to cater for all abilities. More details of the programme and the Club are available at www.eastsutherlandcc.org.uk.
