This was the first round of the Digital Image League at Bracknell Camera Club in the 2022-23 season held on 17th October 2022. For this season I remained in the Division 1. For this season we can enter just one image in each round.
Leaning on the tower
This image came from a photoshoot with the club’s DarKnight’s SIG at the folly near Reading.
Judge’s comments
… everywhere we go today we all take our mobile phones, I am 100% certain that that person is holding a mobile in their hand
… I think that you are telling an excellent story, because you have the guy leaning against this ancient tower building and yo have the wonderful sunset in the background
…what is he is concentrating on? He is concentrating on his phone
… to me this is telling a story about the society we live in today, with technology and that you are only obsessed with your latest life on Facebook and not about seeing the natural [world], there’s a wonderful landscape around you
… I think that it is an excellent picture that you have taken it at the right moment
… you have the wonderful sun dipping just beneath the horizon and creating the wonderful colour band at the bottomed there
… normally people say you should have things on thirds, this is lower than the third and it works because of the tallness of the building, you still have the graduated sky
… it is a very nice image and I would like to hold that one back please
The score
There were 18 images in this Digital Image round in Division 1 and “Leaning on the tower” scored 9.5.
The original image
“Leaning on the tower”:
ISO 2000 105mm f/4.5 1/320 sec