April 27 was the final evening in the Isle of Man Photographic Society’s 2015/16 season and featured the yearly presentation of the Bebington Salon of Photography.
The Bebington Salon is a photographic competition held annually by Bebington Photographic Society.
The competition forms part of the British Photographic Exhibitions Circuit and this year received more than 3,000 entries into the five categories – colour, mono, nature, landscape and creative photography.
Every year the winning entries are taken on a tour of the country and presented at various locations by past president of the L&CPU – Bob Dennis CPAGB, APAGB, AFIAP, BPE4*.
The society was delighted to welcome Bob back once again to the island and he bought with him friend and fellow photographer, John Doherty – also a past president of the L&CPU.
Bob presented the 509 selected winning entries in a number of slide shows.
Images had been awarded marks between two and five by each of the three judges – Jon Baker, MFIAP, EFIAP/p, Gordon Jenkins, APAGB, and Christine Widdall, MPAGB, FBPE, EFIAP.
Images scoring a total of 12 or over were accepted and commended and highly commended images along with first, second and third place were awarded in each section.
The Isle of Man was represented by Sue Blythe, who had two of her images accepted – ‘Tree With a View’ – an atmospheric landscape, and ‘Living on Ice’ - a lovely image of a polar bear and cub.
Following the exhibition a raffle took place to raise funds for the society and then awards were made to members who had been successful throughout the year’s schedule of competitions.
This year the trophies and plaques were distributed to 11 society members for their various successes.
Winners in the standard class were Sue Blythe, Barry Murphy, Deb Turk, Steve Meadows, Sue Leeming and Paul Dunderdale.
In the intermediate class awards went to Shirley Lotfy, Nessie Gillen, and Beryl Quayle.
In the advanced class prizes were given to Sue Jones, Chris Nicholls, Nigel Owen and Ron Shimmin.
Well done to all members for submitting images throughout the year.
The society will now break for the summer before commencing the 2016/17 programme.
A series of summer events will be organised which allow members to visit and photograph various locations.
More information will be circulated to members via email and any queries can be sent to contact@iomps.com
Hazel Walsh
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Pictured here: ‘Tree with a View’ by Sue Blythe was one of the images representing the Isle of Man in this year’s Bebington Salon