Competition Winners
London December 2017
Barry Aldous - Fountains Abbey
Bob Taylor - Hovis
We had a most enjoyable festive London meeting. After the excellent TDS show and one of the equally excellent ISU Code 20 shows from Stephen O'Neil, we had a very pleasant Christmas fare extended refreshments break. Thanks to all who provided the festive fare, especially Paul Gibbs!
After the break, the meeting was nicely rounded off by the Digital (fun) competition, and I'd like to thank everybody who submitted entries. ALL the entries were much appreciated and enjoyed.
This year, every member of the audience was given a score sheet and simply asked to tick their three favourite entries. The entry with the most ticks wins.
I put all the entries into a Magix show - with the title and a number superimposed for about 5 seconds and each image shown for 12 seconds. We viewed this show twice and then the audience placed their ticks. Whilst Colin and I counted ticks, The meeting then watched the show for a third time - this time with the Stereographers' names added.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that there was a tie for first place:
Barry Aldous with "Fountains Abbey"
Bob Taylor with "Hovis"
And there was also a tie for third place:
Colin Metherell with "Brain Coral"
David Ford with "Sunlit Glade"
Mary Paul had 5th place with "In the Cockpit"
Again there was a tie for 6th place:
David Ford with "Tamar River View"
George Sage with "At the Cottage, Stourhead"
Ian Rawat with "Sea View, Arran Islands"
Once more, thanks to everybody who submitted entries.
As a final note, we had three "posthumous entries" this year: Ian Rawat kindly supplied three very nice images from a past member; GEW Herbert who was a society member in the early 20th Century. His images did OK (actually very charming!) and it opens up the question, can we run some sort of event focussing purely on the work of past members, with images drawn from the archives?
Wishing you all a happy new year for a great 2018.
Mike Hillyard
