Judge: Chris Foster
Tried to be crafty here. Submitted this image (London Underground) because I like it, but it’s very much (I thought) not a competition image. It’s too graphical, is basically a poster, has blunt text on it, and I mounted it a) in blue, and b) with a red inlay-mount to really rub it in. I thought it would be scored 10 or less but I’d garner lots of useful feedback about why, thus informing my future submissions. That, or it would be so unusual as to go right round and come out on top.
As it was it scored 15/20, which is plenty respectable for a Cambridge score… But we learned nothing.
Mammoths was my mono submission. This too scored 15/20, which is fine, but everything he said was effusively complimentary. Nothing negative to say whatsoever, then… a brief pause… “15”.