On Tuesday 7th July, EHHPS took on Cheltenham CC (John’s Clare’s new Club) in a friendly competition via Zoom videoconferencing. Amanda Wright reports:

Last night saw the first (hopefully of many) external photographic competitions between the 120 strong Cheltenham Camera Club and EHHPS. Organised by our own John Clare and Burgess, Cheltenham asked us if we would host on their evening as they are new to Zoom and wanted to see how it worked.

Our judge for the evening was award winning Paul Mitchell FRPS who expertly guided us through each of the 40 images with exacting critique and fair scoring throughout I thought.

We were treated to some wonderful Natural History and Landscape images from Cheltenham.

The final score was

Cheltenham 354 points

EHHPS 343 points

Cheltenham were awarded three of the four 20’s:

Long Tailed Tit With White Feather by David Adamson

European Bee-eaters Dispute by Karin Wilson

Light In The Storm by Martin Fry

EHHPS’ Top Scorers were

Sea, Sand and Shadows by John Clare (20)

Mio Fornasetti by Emmanual (19)

Fading Tulips by Amanda Wright (19)

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Sea, Sand and Shadows: John Clare

Long Tailed Tit with White Feather: David Adamson

European Bee-eaters Dispute: Karin Wilson

Light In The Storm: Martin Fry

Mio Fornasetti: Emmanual

Fading Tulips: Amanda Wright

Cheltenham were delighted as you might imagine and invited us back for another bout next year, hopefully it will be in the form of a Highcliffe style trip to the Cotswolds, Covid permitting.