Experienced photographer, judge, author and researcher, Patricia Tutt was the guest when members of the Isle of Man Photographic Society (and several guests) gathered for the first ‘open’ competition last week.

Patricia, says her career in Malawi and the British Isles informed her passion for photography and vice versa.

His illustrated publication: “An Introduction to the Architecture of the Isle of Man” still adorns many coffee tables.

The company is happy and proud to be able to consider Patricia as a “friend” who has accepted such invitations for many years, both to present her work and to judge.

Judging any “open” competition can be a rather daunting prospect as it is often difficult to choose a favorite image when such a variety of subjects are submitted.

However, demonstrating her vast experience, Patricia set about her task with typical enthusiasm.

She was patient with her comments while taking enough time to give an honest assessment of each one. As always, Patricia’s comments were succinct and well thought out.

Color Prints: Canopy by Ron Shimmin with 19 points (out of 20) was the big print winner.

Mono Prints: Done Fishing by Barry Murphy was the winner with 19 points.

Mono DPI (digital projected images): Oxburgh House Norfolk by Chris Blyth was the winner with 18 points

Color DPI: Heavenly Encounter by Barry Murphy with 19 points was the overall DPI winner

Patricia highlighted possible improvements, if any, and described Ron’s winning color print as “an excellent pattern image.”

She observed that Barry Murphy’s winning digital image was even more stunning by including Jurby Church.

The club’s October non-competitive challenge theme, “100 Yards from Your Front Door,” produced a wide variety of topics.

More than 30 images were shown, for entertainment purposes only.

The idea of ​​the challenge is to encourage members to experiment and take numerous photos on a specific theme in a limited period of time.

The non-competitive challenge allows members to experiment using any device, with most choosing to put their cell phones to good use.

Most of the resulting images were very pleasing to the eye.

Many of these images can now be viewed on the IoMPS Facebook page and details of the society’s events and program for the year can be viewed online at www.iomps.com

The next gathering of members and guests will take place on November 6 at the St. John Ambulance headquarters from 7 p.m.

Jason Kinrade will direct a studio shoot and provide a tutorial on image editing.