Amanda Wright, whose image Faded Tulips received a Highly Commended award in the Phone Photography competition, reports on a Full Day at the Rosebowl:

As per Rosebowl Day usual the final competition was held on a glorious sunny day.
The morning kicked off early at 10.00am with the all new Phone Photography competition judged by Gordon Brown from Winchester with about 60 people in attendance.

Out of the 126 images entered 37 were critiqued, 15 held back with seven given Highly Commendeds. The overall winner in 1st place was Pelicans At Sunset by Martin Patten. Much like the Chilterns 100 only one image per photographer was permitted and the individual authors were responsible for choosing their image.

One of the seven images to receive Highly Commendeds was Faded Tulips by myself.

The complete Phone competition can be viewed as a video here
The full results of the Phone Competition are here

After a short break Gordon Brown went on to judge the Rosebowl Starred images. The overall standard in this event was unsurprisingly very high and several people remarked how pleased they were not to have to judge such a high standard competition.

There were 43 images in total, 12 were held back and four awarded Highly Commendeds.
The first place image was Nature’s Mercy by Jim Turner of Hemel Hempstead.

The full entry list and awards for the Stars competition are here

The Rosebowl Final resumed after a lunch break at 2pm and was judged by Marilyn Robert’s, President of The Yorkshire Photographic Union with 74 people in attendance. The Final is contested between the top 12 clubs from the three previous rounds, sadly EHHPS were not amongst them this year.

There were 88 images in total which all received a critique and the judge held back 15 images almost all of which were Natural History. Six 20’s were awarded and it was an incredibly close run final this year.

1st Place was Watford 145
2nd Place Amersham 144
3rd Place Oxford 142
4th Place Woodley 140

Full results from the Rosebowl Final are here