Annual Three-way International Battle
Norwich & District Photographic Society has won this year’s Annual Three-way Battle with our friends Foto-Club Koblenz in Germany and Ciné - Photo Club Nivernais in France
Over the three legs of the competition during which renowned photographic judges in Koblenz, Nivernais and Norwich reviewed and scored the same 63 images (20 + 1 reserve from each club) shown anonymously in a random sequence Norwich amassed a magnificient total of 510.0 points (all images being marked out of 10). Koblenz came second with 456.5 points and Nivernais third with a final score of 419.0 points.
Norwich now holds the Alan Taylor Memorial Trophy until the 2022 competition which will be organised in keeping with tradition by Ciné - Photo Club Nivernais
Congratulating NDPS Helmut Wagner from Koblenz wrote ‘Congratulations to NDPS for having won clearly this year´s Three Way Battle . You really had excellent photos and the scores of the judges and many opinions of our members have shown that’.
Alan Taylor Memorial Trophy- presented in memory of Alan Taylor past President of NDPS who did so much to build the bonds of Friendship with Fofo-Club Koblenz.
Special congratulations go to Helga Warnke from Foto-Club Koblenz whose image POINT OF VIEW achieved the highest aggregate score (29.0) over the three legs of the competition. Two images from NDPS took second and third places THE THREE KINGS, FLATFORD by Bob Darts and IS THE WATERHOLE SAFE by Nick Lewis
In addition, another five images from NDPS were amongst the highest scoring images making a total of seven images from NDPS in the top ten after all three legs of this year’s Battle.
Fifteen members of the Society represented NDPS in this year’s Battle. Throughout the three legs of the competition NDPS’s images achieved a overall average of 8.5/10 with a total of 11 images achieving at least one perfect score of 10/10 during the competition..