THE club held its yearly President’s Portfolio competition at the Baptist Church Hall last Thursday.

It involved members submitting a panel of three prints to hang together on a theme of their choice.

Twelve members submitted images on a variety of subjects showing varied usage of plain photography and computer-assisted manipulation of images.

The judge was renowned photographer, lecturer and judge Mike Birbeck, who gave constructive advice on all the images.

Talented club newcomer Charlotte Nadin shone once more to take the title with her images titled Impressions of Burnham, images she had tastefully manipulated to the point of giving an impression of a mixture of pencil work and water colouring, very original.

Second went to Peter O Shea with images titled Dust and Dirt showing three different motocross riders as they drove around a dry dirty and dusty circuit.

Third went to Norah O Shea whose images depicted a day at Cotley Point-to-Point, an interesting set of images depicting life in and around the field of the meeting.

Highly commended went to Peter O Shea Jnr who submitted images titled Trio of Helicopters, a colourful set of prints showing three different helicopters in static to full flight.

Anyone who has an interest in photography, images, printing, image mounting or any aspect of photography who would like to share it and gain information from others can contact the club via Peter Partridge on 01460-66885, visit the club’s website, chardcameraclub.

org.uk or turn up at the Baptist Church Hall, Holyrood Street, on the first or third Thursday of the month at 7.30pm.