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• Annual Photographic Competition 2008
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The Taunton Group of the West Somerset Railway Association held their Annual Photographic Competition at the GWRSA in Taunton on Monday 7 January. During a lively evening some 81 prints and 89 slides were judged by the members (slides) and Mr Don Bishop ARPS (prints), a professional photographer from Huntspill.
Overall winning entry was judged to be a striking view (by night lighting) of locomotives at Barrow Hill Shed (near Chesterfield) by Tom Adams. This was also awarded the best entry of a railway heritage scene. Second place overall went to Alan Randle, for a view of a double-headed passenger train near Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Railway.
Tom Adams won First and Second Prizes in the Heritage Railway section of the prints, with the Barrow Hill scene and a stunning backlit view of heavy freight locomotive 3850 working a passenger train near Cedar Falls; Tom Adams also won the Modern Railway section, with a mainline scene near Dawlish, with Peter Darke coming second with a shot of a heavy freight train on a viaduct in Idaho, USA; in the Non-Railway section, Tom Adams won First Prize with a vivid shot of one of the Red Arrows in action and Peter Darke took second place with a view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge at night.
In 35mm slides, Alan Randle won First and Second Prizes in the Heritage Railway section, with views of steam trains on the West Somerset Railway, taken at Cedar Falls and at Nethercott; Mike Pollard won the Modern Railway section with a view of locomotives in a mountain scene in Austria, and John Sparkes took second place with a view a stone train discharging ballast at Norton Fitzwarren on the WSR; and in the Non-Railway section, Mike Pollard took First Prize with a view of a church set in mountains while Alan Randle won Second Prize with a stunning view of the moon behind an iceberg in Greenland.
About 25 members attended the meeting. As a group we are grateful to Mr Bishop for his decisive judging, and for his complimentary and constructive comments on the photography, and to the GWRSA for hosting the meeting.
WSRA 9 January 2008
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• Overall Winner and Winning Prints
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Overall winner
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Second in Heritage section
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Modern Rail winner
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WSRA Annual Photographic Competition 2008
