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Well done on the win Graham.
Very fine image. You need to print it big 30"x30" and enjoy.
One worrying aspect ...... the judge needed to ask how you got it so sharp! I guess this was a ?Southern Counties? Photographic Society judge. Sorry but it does bring into question the judge's photographic competence. This sort of question whilst maybe being a polite query of how, I find somewhat mind numbing from someone who should know. Maybe I am being overcritical as I have little time for these judges as I experienced some of their crass comments back in the 1980s when I belonged to a South London photography group. It put me off for life! I decided that I would rather be judged by my paying customers. Maybe I am being ungracious to the judge.
I agree Jonathan. I often found camera club judges tended to be guest speakers who specialised in one form of photographic genre or another. Whilst they could recognise a winning image interns of aesthetics, appeal and execution, their knowledge of the necessary specialist techniques outside their own specialism may have passed them by.
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Eric