Kapiti Coast Photographic Society Wins Wellington Interclub Print Competition EACH YEAR SIX affiliated clubs, making up the Wellington Region, hold an interclub print competition. Clubs take it in turn to host the event, and the host club sets ten topics. These topics are advised early in the year, with a special evening held between August and October. Clubs use different methods to select their ten images, and they bring them along on the judging night. As each topic is listed a club member places their image on the display easels. Rather than give a mark, the guest judge ranks the prints in order, with the ranking translating to points (1st equals 1 point, 2nd is 2, and so on). The club with the fewest points at the end of the judging process takes home the trophy. The 2020 event was hosted by Kapiti Camera Club, but like so many things that year it fell victim to COVID-19 and was postponed to March 2021. It nearly became the victim of a further postponement when alert levels were raised again, just a couple of days before the event. Fortunately the organisers had a plan to limit numbers to eight per club, allowing what is always an enjoyable, popular and competitive competition to go ahead. The judge for the evening was Wellington professional photographer Nick Servian. In many of the categories he admitted that separating the images was a difficult process. As always it was a tight race to the finish. At the end of ten rounds Kapiti Coast Photographic Society (KCPS) won the night with 26 points, five points clear of second placed Johnsonville Camera Club. While they only won one of the ten rounds, KCPS placed second in four rounds and third in four rounds. That consistency gave them fewer points than the clubs who had first and last placed images.
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