The Third Round of the Print Competition 2025-2026

This was the third round of the Print Competition at Bracknell Camera Club in the 2025-26 season held on February 9th 2026. This was a round with two images allowed to be entered.

Ghost of Jacob Marley

In December 2025 we went to “The Great Christmas Feast” organised by The Lost Estate. For three or more hours we sat and watched a solo performance by this actor of all the roles in A Christmas Carol – including Charles Dickens himself. We were sat close to the front of the auditorium and this was the ghost of Scrooge’s dead partner coming back to foretell the happenings over Christmas Eve.

On another note for this competition I had titled the image “Bob Marley” despite in international salons I had used the correct title. I may have had a disappointing evening but I am sure that it would have been a lot worse if the organisers had not allowed me to change the title at the last minute. The evening’s judge having commented on several other entries’ titles…

Summary of judge’s comments
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Jing

On the last day of Valerie Jardin’s October 2025 workshop we went into London’s Chinatown early in the morning. The streets were empty of tourists but full of people stocking restaurants and shops for the coming day. This lady agreed to pose for me outside her restaurant.

Summary of judge’s comments
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The scores

There were 34 images in this print round: “Ghost of Jacob Marley” scored 7 and “Jing” scored 7.5.

Tables

RESULT TABLES NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE CLUB

The original images

Ghost of Jacob Marley

Jing