{"id":1913,"date":"2022-12-15T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:16:01","slug":"soca-meeting-tonight-8th-december-at-730pm-at-w-g-city-rna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"SOCA 2022 Photo Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The December meeting was held on the 8th of December and was well attended despite the weather conditions. <\/strong>This was the annual nautical themed photo contest which included the opportunity for a pre-Christmas social<\/strong>.
Nearly 120 photos<\/strong> from over 20 members<\/strong> were submitted into the competition, this made the voting very close with ties-breaking decisions having to be made in 4 of the categories.<\/p>\n

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The winners in the 2022 Photo Competition<\/p><\/div>\n

Above are the six winners in the 2022 photo competition.<\/strong>
From left to right :-
Terry, George<\/strong> (at front)<\/em>, Paul, Tanya, Stewart <\/strong>& Geff<\/strong><\/p>\n

The competition for best photo was broken into six different Categories:-
<\/strong>1) Club People since the club was formed.
2) Seascapes
3) Artistic (with a nautical flavour)
4) Boats
5) Weather and Sunsets
6) Sailing Holiday<\/p>\n

Below are the winning photos from the 2022 Photo Competition.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Categories for the Photo Competition:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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1) Club People since the club was formed.
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Club People – A very old Printed Photo that required scanning from Tanya<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n


2) Seascapes<\/span>
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SEASCAPES \u2013 A photo taken by Stewart off Plymouth<\/p><\/div>\n
3) Artistic (with a nautical flavour)<\/span>
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Artistic – A photo that could have been entered into (and won) many of the categories by Terry<\/p><\/div>\n
4) Boats<\/span>

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BOATS – A picture from Paul from high on the mast.<\/p><\/div>\n
5) Weather and Sunsets<\/span>

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Weather & Sunsets – A picture from George on the East Coast.<\/p><\/div>\n
6) Sailing Holiday<\/span>

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Sailing Holiday – a picture taken on the wharf in Oban whilst Geff was on holiday in Scotland<\/p><\/div>\n

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Note a selection from the entries will form the basis of next year\u2019s calendar 2024 <\/strong>which seeing the quality of this year’s entries means it will be highly desirable.

Also a raffle etc was held which made a healthy boost to the funds for the Commodores chosen charity which this year is BTAC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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