Wainwright Photographic Competition 2006
Twenty-eight members submitted a total of seventy-eight entries in this year’s competition, sixty-two of them after the middle of December! The quality of entries has maintained the high standards developed over the three years.
Derry Brabbs has, once again, judged the entries to select the winner of each class, film and digital. He writes: Congratulations to all contributors! I thought the overall standard of images this year was particularly high and am only sorry that there can be just one prize winner from each category. It would have been nice to have seen stronger skies and whether shooting on film or digital, it is worth experimenting with graduated filters to bring the clouds into play to strengthen the overall impact of a landscape.
Nil desperandum film users, I am still persevering with my old Olympus and Fuji Velvia and despite all this new-fangled technology and digital witchcraft, film is still capable of giving the pixels a good run for their money. Well done again to all and thank you for giving me such an enjoyable portfolio of photographs to look through.
The winners of the 2006 competition are as shown below, together with their winning entries and Derry’s comments.
Derry’s comments: ‘A superbly atmospheric study highlighting the benefits of being in the right place at the right time. The entire frame is full of interest, with the interplay of light and shade in the sky being perfectly mirrored on the lake’s unruffled surface.’
Derry’s comments: ‘There were several lovely studies of cloud inversion amongst the entries, but this one is outstanding for its colour, textures and atmosphere. I particularly like the way that the soft sunlight just catches the foreground and, as it is a dawn picture the photographer should receive extra praise for groping their way up to a high vantage point in the dark!’