The group met at The Midleton Park Hotel on Tuesday 26th February 2013. It was the first competition night of the year with the theme being ‘Food’.

For the first time, judging was done on projected images rather than prints, and the competition drew 29 entries. As the images were previewed from start to finish before being judged individually, it was clear that the standard was very high and that the members had, indeed, been busy for the past few weeks capturing their entries.

All members present broke up into groups of 6 or 7 and critiqued each image in turn. Each member then awarded the individual images a maximum of 30 points by allocating up to 10 points each under the three categories of Creativity, Composition and Lighting. Once judging was finished, each member gave the back story to their competition image explaining the technique, lighting and post processing employed to create the image.

Following some serious number crunching the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places were established with third place going to Mervyn Daly, second place to Craig O’Brien and first place to Karen Fleming. These are the winning images (click to enlarge):

1st place: Karen Fleming

2nd place: Craig O’Brien

3rd place: Mervyn Daly

Chairman, Tom Tattan, praised the high standard of the images, some of which were submitted by new members of the group, for whom this was their very first competition.

View all the competition entries in the slideshow below. Mouse over to see the photographers’ details  and to use the controls.

[slideshow_deploy id=’108′]

Click here to see more images from the group.