Vic Smith Trophy 2008 - Inter-Club Digital Image Competition

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The third Federation digital inter-club competition took place on 8th April 2008 to an audience of about 60 at Shirley Methodist Church Hall. Eleven clubs took part, each submitting fifteen images. In addition to the club award of the Vic Smith Trophy, certificates were given to the best image overall and three runners-up. This year Vic Smith donated a second trophy, the Quantagraphic Trophy, for the runner-up club.

A judging machine was used and the three judges each gave a mark between 2 and 5 resulting in a total mark for the image between 6 and 15. No commentary was given on images at the marking stage. If there were ties between clubs they were resolved by successively discounting the lowest mark in each panel until the leader was determined. A dead heat was declared if this did not result in a leader. Finally, all images that scored 13 or above were reviewed by the judges and the images for individual awards were selected and commented upon.

The judges were: Colin Brownett, Chris Coates and David Plummer. Entries were received from 11 of the 15 SLF member clubs: Beckenham, Bromley, Carshalton, Cheam, Croydon, Old Coulsdon, Orpington, Photocraft, Selsdon, South London and West Wickham. This was an great evening with plenty of great images on display.

The award winning images can be seen here. The full results sheet is available here.

The top clubs were:

Award Club Points
Vic Smith Trophy
Photocraft Camera Club
169
Quantagraphic Trophy
Croydon Camera Club
165
Third place (tie-break)
Cheam Camera Club
164
Fourth place (tie break)
Orpington Photographic Society
164

The individual awards went to:

Award Title Photographer Club
Winner
Dunnock
Mandy Byatt
Photocraft
Certificate
Hangnails
Rob Hooper *
Croydon
Certificate
East End Girl
Martin Jordan *
Beckenham
Certificate
Porcelain Mushroom
Peter Simpson *
South London

* Certificates listed alphabetically.

The award winning images can be seen here. The full results sheet is available here.