From the Front Line of the Wear Area Battle

David Trout reports:

Good news and bad news at the Wear Area Battle 2012. The good news is that five of our seven pictures all got good marks.

Middlin’ news is we came 2nd to Sunderland.

Bad news is that two of our pictures got dismal marks.

Still we came 2nd with 180 marks against Sunderland’s 186. Washington were third with 179.

The good news on the other pictures was:

Michael Watson – Another Kill for the merlin – 29 (2nd highest mark of the night) The highest marked picture, 30, was from Sunderland

John Wise - Great Blue Heron Nesting 27

Stephen Bell – John McGuiness – Stephen Bell 27

Ian Stafford – Vietnamese Children 27

Ian Stafford - Happiness Is 26

There’s no cigar for David Trout or Neil Maughan as their pictures ‘Blizzard’ and ‘Morning Cuppa’ got just 22 marks out of 30 despite them both having previous considerable success in international salons.

The judge was Jim Welch from Blyth. And as always Washington Camera Club made their visitors welcome and provided an excellent buffet.

David Trout