Tuesday 8th May saw the annual "Print of the year" and "Best of the Rest" titles awarded.

"Print of the year" is actually awarded in 3 categories - Colour, Mono and Projected Images. Entries are taken from any image placed in the Club competitions through the year.

"Best of the Rest" is open for anyone who did not have a placed entry in the competition categories of projected or prints.

After all that, the winners were....

The 4th and final round of the Projected Image league was won by Chris Bennett with her Pelicans in "Heads up". Simon Gadd took 2nd place with his study of "Making music", and Chris Williams was in 3rd place with "The search for water". Well done to all the winners.

Results of Round 4 of the print league were as follows:

The colour section was won by Kieron Keller with his "Owl Portait". In second place was "Getting Ready" by Helen Cullens, and third place went to Steve Else with "Wet Daffodil"

A couple of familiar names in the Mono section, with Helen this time taking 1st place with "Yorkshire tree", and Kieron  in 2nd this time with "Big Dave". Steve Ballard was in 3rd with "Going Out"

On Feb 6th, we held our annual Schools Competition, in conjunction with the St Albans Museums and Galleries trust, and sponsored by Taylor Walton solictors. This competition is open to sixth forms and colleges in the local area and gives pupils the opportunity to have their images judged by an independent judge, and also have the opportunity to win some rather nice prizes.

This year there were almost 70 entries from 5 establishments. Thanks to all entrants, judges and supporters.

The images are now being prepared for an exhibition in St Albans Cathedral which will open on 10th March for one week.

Two two winning images shown here are "Steel wool car" by Callum Bowden from Oaklands College, and "Sky high" by Michaella Buer from Marlborough school. Many congratulations to both.

Further highly commended images below were "Enlighten" by Michaella Buer (again!), and "Shadows of the morning" by Skye Adams from Sandringham school.

An evening of prints and projected images of portraits, both Animal and Human, gave us a wide range of images for what on paper sounds a fairly narrow definition.

Many thanks to Julia Cleaver for judging and being flexible to work around the projector problems!

In the prints section, winners were Geoff Clinton and Kieron Keller with "Caracal Cat" and "Mr Grumpy" respectively.

In the projected images, the winners were  Chris Williams and Chris  Bennett with "Locked and Loaded" and "Thoughtful" respectively.

The third round of this years print league resulted as follows:

Colour prints was won by Geoff Clinton with "Arctic tern", Chris Bennett was second with "Splashdown" and third pace was Steve Ballard with "Waiting for mum".

In the mono section, Helen Cullens's "On Chesil Beach" ran out winner, with "St Dunstans Church" from Kieron Keller in second and third was taken by Chris Dundon-Smith with "Lioness portrait".

A bumper set of images this time round. This week's winning entry was Red sea wreck by Peter Tatton - well done!. Second and Third places went to Gareth Richards with Cathedral of Capitalism and Standing Stones by Allan Parker respectively. Thanks to this week's judge Amanda Wright.

We had one of our regular competition sets last Tuesday 16th January for The Albert Beale Trophy and the Carter Cup. The Albert Beale Trophy was won by Geoff Clinton (again) - he could have left the trophy at home! The topic was coloured reflections as usual and Geoff won with his picture "St Pauls". The Carter Cup was an open Triptych and was won by Helen Cullens with her picture "Tunnel".

The competitions were very well supported with 75 entries and we had our largest audience of the season enjoying a fine evening judged by Chris Sergeant. Well done to Geoff and Helen.