The meeting of the Isle of Man Photographic Society was cancelled last week due to the extreme weather conditions around the island that had been experienced overnight and earlier in the day - extensive flooding, roads awash, and advice from the police that only essential travel should be undertaken.

However, the society did enjoy some off-island success over the weekend.

We belong to the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union - our regional federation, covering nearly 100 clubs spread around the north-west of England.

Other regional federations cover the rest of the UK.

The L&CPU organises an annual ’digital knockout’ competition requiring eight digital images to be entered from each club, with no more than two images from any single photographer, and with the first four images to be from four separate photographers.

This year, 41 clubs entered, and due to the volume of entries, the judge actually assessed only the first four images from each club - giving a total of 164 images to comment on and to be awarded points.

As a knockout competition, one point is awarded for each round that an image progresses - rather like a photographic Strictly Come Dancing - except the competition is limited to just five rounds (giving a maximum score of five points per image, and a total maximum this year of 20).

Bearing in mind the small size of our club and that 41 clubs entered, our result - seventh equal - represented a very pleasing outcome and continued our run of successes over recent months.

The club image achieving the highest score was a natural history shot of a brown bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska.

The society meets at the Art Society Building (Thie Ellyn) in Withington Road, Douglas, with all meetings starting at 7.30pm. Our next meeting on Wednesday, December 6, will include two digital presentations - the first by Jack Kaighin, with some old lantern slides of the island, while Bill Callow will follow with a presentation of some of his latest work.

Meetings are open to the public, and all will be given a very warm welcome.

Full details of our programme can be found on our website at www.iomps.com.