A big thankyou to our judge, Meg Lipscombe.
| Curves and Rivets | Dave Hart | C | An interesting set of panels, the shapes and lines working well to create a cohesive triptych. The colour of the background mat also helps unite the images. I find the bit of sky at the top of the middle panel a little distracting and suggest trying to create a panel without sky to see if it improves. | Accepted |
| Bubbl-ish-is | Monita Baird | C | This really is a bubbly image, the panels all different but creating good flow with the circles leading through. I enjoyed the bright, light colours and shapes displaying well on the white background. Well done. | Honours |
| Doing the daily chores | C | You have captured a very good story, with the images flowing together really well. I do find the bright green border quite distracting and either a white or black would perhaps work better. In a triptych it is important that the background is neutral so that it doesn’t draw the eye away from the image. The sky at the top of the middle image draws my eye, perhaps you could crop it out along with a bit more of the elephant’s head. | No award | |
| The Wool Shed | C | These images are so familiar to me after spending years on a sheep farm. Your composition with the uprights on the ends, flanking the round shapes in the middle works really well. Overall the image is rather light. Perhaps try giving it a more rugged feel with more contrast and maybe a sepia tone. | No award | |
| Not what she ordered | Linda Ritchie | C | I loved your title for what is a brilliant triptych. There is such a great storyline here that makes for a perfect triptych. I kept looking and enjoying it as I studied the attitude of these well photographed birds. A small suggestion is to change the background mat to perhaps white, I feel the grey doesn’t show the images off as well. | Honours |
| Campsite atop Alex Knob, Franz Josef | C | I really like the colours in this spectacular image, the orange tent echoing the colours of the grasses and bushes as they soak up the late evening or maybe the morning sun. It works so well as a single image but I feel splitting it into panels adds nothing. A triptych needs to improve an image if it is cut into three. | No award | |
| Lost Balloon | C | A very good idea, which tells quite a story, and the vibrant colours of the wee girls dress and her balloon do create an impact. The last image really shows the emotion of the loss of the balloon. The first two images are very posed and I would have loved to see some of the emotion shown in the last panel, maybe incorporating some movement. A great concept. | No award | |
| Glass ball trio | C | I enjoy the concept of using the glass ball as a point of focus in all three images. Uniting them together creates a very busy and bold result. The glass ball in the first image has no sharp details with the colours not repeating in the other two. Suggestion that it could be replaced with a similar shot to the last, showing a combination of trees and autumn leaves. | No award | |
| Behemoth | C | There are some rather interesting shapes and reflections within this limited colour palette. This appears to be one image split into three. To use one image divided into three for a triptych can be done, but it must enhance the original single image, and I feel this has not happened in this instance. The result is quite busy. | No award | |
| Spirit Catch | Dave Hart | C | Such a simple image that really engages the viewer, especially with the concentrated look on the girl’s face as she tries to catch the ball. What really lifts this triptych to another level are the shadows that the photographer has seen and cleverly used as a large part of the result. The vertical layout works perfectly. | Honours |
| GOAL | Hayden McCoy | C | There is a great story here, the action is captured really well especially with the last image where the scorer is caught mid-air, elated with his goal and the team mate showing their excitement. The background, although quite busy, is out of focus so not intrusive. My only suggestion is that I would have liked to have seen their faces, adding that extra emotion. | Accepted |
| Twizel winter | Peter Wright | B | A very creative and eye catching triptych, its quite abstract with the use of mono and colour creating six distinctive blocks. I enjoyed the combination of three different images with the left hand panel finishing at the point. Well done. | Honours |
| Woolshed wall of history | B | There is certainly a wonderful wall of graffiti in this woolshed telling the story of its shearing history. Although all images have a connection to the woolshed, using the stencil and the stamp panels on the right do not create a good flow. I like the stamp at the bottom right and wonder if there was another interesting item from the wall that could have been used instead of the stencil. | No award | |
| Blue Buildings | B | What a great building to photograph with its sharp lines and very interesting windows. These geometric forms can create very good triptychs. Do watch out for things that break up the simplicity such as the aerial in the bottom of the second panel, also this panel would have worked better had there been a small crop on the right to remove the edges of the windows. The aerial on the roof top of panel three is also distracting, see if you can remove it. Do play around with this as I feel it has good potential. | No award | |
| Banks Peninsular | B | With converting the hills and land to monotone, the vibrant water really stands out. But by splitting this image into three panels, the story is not improved, which is what a triptych aims to achieve. The bottom panel on its own is a very interesting image. | No award | |
| Building Patterns | B | I can see what drew you to this building with its interesting windows and design. I suspect the centre panel is a close up of the texture on the window frames but it feels a bit dark and heavy in the middle of the triptych, stopping the flow. Perhaps combining the outside panels with a similar image creating a minimal design would work well. | No award | |
| Moving | A | An interesting concept using this blur technique, however be careful with distracting dark areas. The triptych rules state that there must be 3 separate images which do not touch. There is no division between these three images. | No award | |
| Colours | A | A very effective eye-catching triptych with this rainbow graded umbrella. I wonder if swapping the left and right pabels around with the macro shots of the colours matching the middle shot creating a more visual continuity of colour. The bright gold spots near the bottom of the outside images are rather distracting. | No award | |
| Winter’s Hush | Colleen Linnell | A | The title about Winter‚Äôs Hush really does sum up my initial response to this triptych, there is a very high key simplicity with my eye drawn from left to right by the diminishing height of the trees as well as the birds. I was a little concerned with some of the technical aspects but the creative vision outweighs this. | Honours |
| Verde | A | The vibrancy of this triptych really catches the eye and makes the viewer take notice, the colours unifying the three separate images. I struggled with the busyness of the background, and found the desaturated leaves at the top of the first image is distracting. | No award | |
| Strawberry Splash | Sandra McCoy | A | Simple but very eye catching, with a great concept. The blue tones of the glasses contrast well with the strawberry. The last image is great, perfect timing, but felt the middle shot could be improved with having the strawberry in focus, rather than blurred which I found distracting. I also wonder about removing the reflection of the stem, just leaving the base of the glass and simplifying the images. | Accepted |
| Shearing time | Sue Titmuss | A | Triptychs are about telling a story and this is a very good example of a photo jounalistic approach. Put together they certainly convey the story of the shearing day, from the arrival of the flock, to the closeup of the ewe and finally the shearer hard at work showing his straining muscles. The mono treatment allows the viewer to focus on what is important. | Accepted |
| Treat time | Kristal Merry | A | There is a real impact with this triptych, especially with all the drool in the dogs mouth which has been captured really well. There is a real sharpness to these three shots of the dog. I do like the composition with the upright shot in the middle. The aqua background contrasts well and adds a strong element, although I notice a reflection from it on the white fur at the bottom. | Accepted |
| We three legacies | Karina Templeton | A | Three absolutely beautiful images, all with a soft and gentle look and a shallow depth of field that enhances this emotion. Although they are portraits of three horses, there is nothing static about the result with the photographer using different angles of view creating a triptych that combines to achieve more than each individual image. | Honours |
| Rapids | A | Three excellent individual images, with the whites handled well and the slow shutter speed slowing the water very nicely. For a triptych to work well, there needs to be three different images that sit together and show unity. One and two are very similar, two just being a close up of the same location. I enjoyed the orange leaf in the last image. | No award | |
| Flax Flowers | Allan McGregor | A | There is a real balance to this triptych, the three images are individually beautiful but bringing them together creates a stunning piece. The sepia tones work well and the shapes are echoed across the combined piece. I enjoyed the end images gently leaning inwards to the darker tones of the central image. I would love to see this printed large and on a wall. | Honours |
| Contemplation | A | A good title that sums up this very picturesque scene, such majestic country. As an individual image it works well, but cutting it into three is not adding anything to it. A triptych needs to convey a story that is greater than if it is a single image. | No award | |
| Birds of a Feather | A | I enjoyed the concept of this triptych developing over the three images. The tones of the textured backgrounds adds a nice touch. I find the first image doesn’t flow quite as well, the green grasses causing a distraction. I would have enjoyed seeing perhaps just a single stalk in this panel with one bird in the frame, creating a real sequence. | No award | |
| Honeycomb Cave Karamea | Sandra McCoy | A | Three excellent and detailed images combined to form a very cohesive result. My eye meanders through the sequence very easily and pleasantly following the orange water. I follow the movement from the pool at the base of the first panel, through the pool in in the second panel that meanders from the middle of that image, then across to the third panel and follows down the stream to the bottom right. The rich tones surrounded with the black mat creates a very memorable triptych. | Honours |
| Darwin, Magnum, Poppy | A | I cannot fault the quality of these three studio portraits of beautiful dogs. Yet I find that joining them together in a triptych creates quite a static image, with each dog having a similar pose and not really making them stand out and give an emotional response. | No award | |
| Reflections | A | There is something about reflections in windows that always intrigue me, with the distortions creating a real abstract. You have spotted an interesting subject, however, the middle image with out its left hand green frame does no fit with the others. Perhaps clean up some of the extra bits creeping into the frame which will help simplify the images. | No award | |
| Catch! | Sarah Perrins | A | These are three really sharp images, the shutter speed capturing the movement perfectly. The bottom right image with the quizzical look on the face made me smile. Perhaps the choice you have made with the layout is not allowing me to enjoy all three images easily. I feel maybe having the three images in a row, perhaps ending with the image that is currently on the left would create a stronger story line. I do enjoy the action in these images. | Accepted |
| Starlings | Robyn Young | A | This triptych tells me such a story, from a rather happy bird, to one with its feathers ruffled and looking very angry, and finally heading off to deal to the problem! My eye moves very easily through the image. The high key effect creates a fine art look. It is a very simple triptych but really makes a statement. | Honours |
| Just Dropping In | Cheryl Muirson | A | A great series of images that lead through and tell me the complete story of these parachutists. I enjoy the diagonal line up in the first images, sweeping into the central shot with the smoke to the finale with the flags. It is well balanced with the colours very cohesive. I just wish that the fourth parachutists in the middle shot had lined up, but this was completely out of your control! | Accepted |
| Solomons Seal | A | This plant is very striking in its form, with the flowers forming quite a distinctive flow. There is a good progression from the whole branch, through to the close up and finally the open flowers. I find cropping off the top of the leaf in the first image rather distracting and taking away from the curve of the stem. A larger depth of field in the last shot would have been more in keeping with the sharpness of the first two frames. | No award | |
| Pure Love | A | You have captured such beautiful moments showing the love between mother and son, especially the look between them in the last image. I would like to see this as 3 separate vertical images, with the storyline following the son being lifted in the air, then held for a kiss and finally the hug. I am not aware of what rules your club has for triptychs, but normally each image must be separate, and not overlapping as is the case here. | No award | |
| The Process of Extinguishing The Flame | Cheryl Muirson | A | This really is an extremely creative triptych, it just grabs your attention with the story developing across the three images. The smoke shots are fabulous. What lets it down in my opinion is the base of the first image that is lost in the shadows, and is also not quite level. | Accepted |
| Dancer | Rosie Coster | A | With a successful triptych, the three panels have more meaning viewed together than apart and this set certainly does. The shallow depth of field creates a simple background with the lining up of the distant horizon creating continuity. The flow is perfect with the third image creating a great finale. I find the dark foreground in this last shot distracting, maybe some work in post processing could correct this. | Accepted |
| Not what she ordered | Linda Ritchie | C | Best in Grade, Champion | |
| Twizel winter | Peter Wright | B | Best in Grade | |
| Flax Flowers | Allan McGregor | A | Best in Grade |