Vale Cider Cup
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Friday saw the inaugural Vale Cider Cup Challenge at the club. Bridgend Camera Club were invited to compete in this new form of competition devised by Nick Craddock (of Vale Cider) and Peter Young brilliantly judged, on the hoof, 50 images in three categories and head to head. Difficult to describe - you needed to be there to understand the scoring. It was a great night which demonstrated the breadth of talent within both clubs. It was a very closely fought contest so congratulations to Bridgend CC for being runner up in the this year's Vale Cider Cup.
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I am delighted to be able to report that Vale won the Vale Cider Cup last night in what was a very close and exciting competition with Bridgend which came down to the last few points. The final score was Vale 18, Bridgend 15. There were 23 members representing Bridgend and 25 members representing Vale and the standard of images was excellent from all 48 photographers who participated. The judge for the evening was Peter Young who was superb in providing incisive comments about each print as well as scoring and making sure the competition ha plenty of friendly rivalry and fun.
Many thanks to everyone who provided prints and to all those who came along on the night! Nick Craddock |
The Section scores were:
Landscape: Vale 5 points, Bridgend 0 points People: Vale 1 point, Bridgend 4 points Nature: Vale 0 points, Bridgend 5 points Open: Vale 9 points, Bridgend 6 points Bonus points: Vale 3 points, Bridgend 0 points Ribbon winners: Best Landscape: Guy Butler-Madden with Footpath, Hensol Forest Runner up Landscape: Mike Davies with Towards Pen y Fan Best People: Dave Thomas with Butch, a ragged Victorian Runner up People: Terry Verrinder with The anguish of Deianeira Best Nature: Heather Digweed with Kingfisher on reed Runner up Nature: Neville Thomas with Fox in grasses Best open colour: Peter Dennis with Rock pool Best open mono: Nick Craddock with London rain |
Photos by Mike Baker
