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2025Oldham Camera Club – Photographer of the Year 2025 – rounds 1 to 3
As we near the end of the year, so does OCC’s Photographer of the Year competition. The competition is held over 4 rounds over the year. This year has been especially close over the past 3 rounds, the final round will take place on Thursday 4 December at the Moravian Church in Royton.
The competition requires each photographer to enter 4 images into each of the 2 sections Colour & Mono, these are then viewed by an external judge who both gives critique and a score out of 20. The scores from each section are then totted up and these then get saved to be added to the future rounds, at the end of the year the best 3 out of 4 rounds are then used, the photographer with the highest score is then deemed to be the Photographer of the year. The 4 highest scoring images from each round are shown below.
Round 3 was held in September
Round 3 Colour section
Ellie
Northern Gannet
Surreptitious Break
Little Owl
Round 3 Mono Section
Floral Elegance
Wind Swept Little Egret
Gnarled Tree
Woman’s Best Friend
Round 2 was held in June
Round 2 Colour section
Imogen – Mike McArdle
Immature Common Darter Dragon Fly – Heather Birds
Eurasian Kestrel – Heather Birds
Kestrel with mouse – Gail Johnson
Round 2 Mono section
Doing A Bailey
Seen Better Days
Manchester Arches
Just the Bones
Round 1 was held in March
Colour Section
Manchester Cathedral – Heather Birds
Carrie & Rob – Steven Birds
Leaving Home – Brian Parkin
Foraging Blue Tit – Phil Livesey
Round 1 Mono section
There’s Something About Alice. – Roger Donallon
Ruslana – Brian Parkin
Girls Having Fun – Brian Parkin
Jessica – Heather Birds