Photo Competition 2006

2006 Competition Results

Alwyn Ogborn, our competition organiser, writes:

This was a bumper year for our annual photographic competition!

The widened publicity allowing non-HCS members the chance to enter resulted in a total of 248 prints being submitted.

The overall standard was very high and judging called for some very hard decisions to be made.

In our original publicity we said Martin Smith, chief photographer of the Oldham Evening Chronicle, would do the judging. Since then, Martin decided to retire and although it was still the Chief Photographer in the hot seat, it was done by Vincent Brown, his successor.

Overall Winner:

Hillmorton on the Oxford Canal, by W M Young

The winning pictures and the runners up in the four categories are shown below on this page.

Our congratulations to all prize winners.

There was sufficient response to select a number of good quality prints to include in a calendar. This will be collated and printed next year for 2008 and put on sale next Autumn.

If you want to know if one of your shots is included, watch out for publication announcements and buy a calendar!

All entries accompanied by a SAE have been returned. If you did not send a SAE and would like your prints back, please forward one to the HCS office. My thanks go to Vincent Brown for his time and effort, and to all entrants for their interest and involvement.

Cameras at the ready for the 2007 contest!