Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025
Halstead Twin Towns Competition 2025
Judge: Mike Fuller
On Thursday 13th November, we travelled to Halstead for the Twin Towns competition. This year there were a full complement of 6 clubs taking part, submitting 11 PDI images to the competition.
I was impressed with Mike Fuller’s judging, giving each image a well rounded critique and drawing out the positives in each of the images. Fortunately he seemed to like the style of the Colchester images and we were rewarded with five of the seven 20s given on the night. Congratulations to the authors of these images.
The final positions were
Position Club Score 1st Colchester 204 2nd Halstead 187 3rd Wetzlar 184 4th Pierrfitte 167 5th Braintree 165 6th Haubourdin 163 Our images fared as follows
Title Author Score Psychedelic Walkway Hilary Knight 16 Dundee V & A Steve Ball 17 Shall we Dance? Chris Pugh 20 Llyn Dinas Morning Roy Essery 20 Territorial Dispute Chris Aldred 20 Storm Jorge Lightshow Kate Jackson 17 Golden Eagle Marny Macdonald 20 Stokksnes, Iceland Colin Westgate 18 Gale Force 8 Shaun Hykel 18 The Pounce - Arctic Wolves Derek Howes 18 Fighting Fieldfares Robert Macdonald 20 The icing on the cake was the award of best image to Shall we Dance? by Chris Pugh. In fact, this was the second consecutive year that Chris has won best image – an impressive feat!
Colchester’s images that were used on the night can be seen in the attached PDF below.
Our next external competition is via zoom against Wetzlar in December.
– Andrew Bailey (External Competition Secretary)
