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Club
Competitions. Inter-Club
Competitions |
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27th
February 2010 The L&CPU Annual Print and Projected Image Competition |
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| The
annual L&CPU print and projected image competition is fast approaching.
The competition is open to all fully paid up club members. Your entry must
be submitted to the club competition secretaries by 30th March 2010. Any entries submitted after this date will not be accepted. Please click on the link below to read the general rules, guidelines and the sections within the competition. All labeling of prints/slides is done by the club's competition secretaries. If you wish to enter, could you please also download and complete a members entry form. This is not an official entry form, it is to help assist the competition secretaries in compiling the club's entry for the competition. |
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16th
February 2010. |
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fourth competition of the 2009-2010 season was judged by John Royle CPAGB
from Crewe Photographic Society. After a tough week, John had spent a large
amount of time at home previewing all the prints and PDI's, so on the night
of judging he came prepared with all of his comments and scores. From the
total entry of 49 prints John selected 12 prints (see link below) to take
the scores of 17 and above. From those 12 prints, 1st place was given to
"Abandoned in the Desert" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB. In the PDI's, there were 59 images for to John judge. Eleven images (see link below) were held until the end to take the highest scores. From those images the overall winner was "Horsey Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth. |
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This
season's set subject competition was "Dereliction", which was
judged by one of Nantwich Camera Clubs life members, Malcolm Price. Malcolm
had previewed all of the prints and PDI's at home over the weekend, so
he came well prepared with his constructive comments and scores. |
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| The annual Nantwich and Sandbach battle took place at Sandbach library and was judge by Christine Widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*. Christine followed the usual format judging the prints and then the PDI's. In both sections she spent a great deal of time on each image giving good clear constructive comments. She also commented on the high standard of prints from both clubs. For this reason she awarded 4 print the top score of 20 points, three from Nantwich (see below) and one from Sandbach. The total print scores were Nantwich 177 points and Sandbach 166. | |||||||||||
| After a couple of runs through the PDI's, and her comments about not liking sports photography, Christine held back just two images from the PDI section, both of which were sports pictures! The two held images, both from Nantwich were, "Competitive" by Bryan Averill and the overall winner, scoring 20 points, was "Over the Brow" by Andrew Charlesworth. The total scores for the PDI section were Nantwich 170 points and Sandbach 160, giving Nantwich the overall victory with a grand total of 347 points against Sandbach with 326 points. | |||||||||||
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2nd club competition of the 2009-2010 season took place on Tuesday 8th November
and was judged by Tony Redford. Tony was making a welcome return to Nantwich
to judge this competition for us. Starting with prints, Tony gave good clear
constructive comments on all of the entries, holding back his favourite
prints until the end. From the 60 prints entered into the print competition
there were 8 prints held back to take the higher scores. From the top 8,
Tony reduced them down to just 2 prints, "The Watersplash" from
Wray Douglas and "The Cotton Mill Express" from Andrew Charlesworth.
His final decision for the overall winner went to Andrew Charlesworth for
his print "The Cotton Mill Express" (see below). Tony said "the
only reason for this is, I'm a sucker for trains". In the PDI section there were 62 entries for Tony to judge. Tony had already previewed the images as the entry had been sent to him beforehand. From the complete entry Tony held back 11 images until the end. From the top scoring images the overall win went to Andrew Charlesworth for his image titled "Mesa Arch at Sunrise" (see below). |
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Chester Photographic Society Inter-Club Competition was held on 17 November
2009 and was judged by Gordon Jenkins. Nantwich came second, scoring 30,
beaten by only 1 point by joint winners, Hoylake and Heswall, with 31 points
each. Wray Douglas's "Provencal Tree" (see below) won the Colour
Print section and his " Red Kite" (see below) took second place.
'Provencal Tree' was also awarded Print of the Night, so congratulations
are in order to Wray. Competition was fierce with many excellent prints, both colour and mono, and the judging had to be 'firm but fair' because of the high standard. Gordon Jenkins congratulated the club and photographers concerned. |
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first inter-club battle of this season was against Whitchurch and was judged
by David Hallows CPAGB, who had travelled from Sale near Manchester to make
his first visit to Nantwich Camera Club. David followed the usual format of judging the 20 prints first (10 from each club). Working through the entries David was very observant, giving good clear comments and constructive criticism. After the first run through David had held back 9 prints to take the highest scores. From those 9 prints, 6 belonged to Nantwich and 3 from Whitchurch. At this point David said it was going to be very difficult to find a winner, he didn't want his personal preferences to influence the result over quality and technique. In the end David picked out "Free Style Jump" (see below) by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB from Nantwich as the winner. The total scores for the prints were Nantwich 177 points, Whitchurch 155 points. After the tea break the PDI battle took place (10 PDI's from each club). Again David followed the format of scoring and holding back the top images to the end. After the first run though there were 6 PDI images held back, 4 from Nantwich and 2 from Whitchurch. The final overall 1st place went to a PDI from Whitchurch titled "Up and Over" (see below"). The Total scores for the PDI's were Nantwich 165 points, Whitchurch 158 points. The overall total scores were Nantwich 342 points and Whitchurch 313 points. So well done to Nantwich for their first inter-club win of the 2009-2010 season. To see the individual print and PDI scores, click on the links below. |
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29th
October 2009 |
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| On Thursday 29th October Nantwich Camera Club entered an inter-club Print and PDI competition at Bramhall. The Judge for this competition was John Smith from Rochdale. We finished joint 3rd in both Print and PDI sections. To see the list of the entries and results, please click on the links below. | |||||||||||
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1st club competition of the 2009-2010 season took place on Tuesday 6th October
and was judged by Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/p. Peter has visited the club
on many occasions to present his lectures, but tonight was the first time
he had judged for us. Starting with the 65 print entries, Peter worked his
way through scoring the prints and hold back his favourites until the end.
At the end of the scoring there were 11 prints held back to take the top
scores, including a print titled "Breaking Waves" from one of
our new members Sarah Davies. The overall winning print went to Roslyn Walmsley
for her print titled "First Light at Waheap Woodoos" (see below) In the PDI section there were 67 entries to be judged. Peter adopted the same system of scoring and holding back images as he had done in the prints section. From the top 8 PDI's that were held back the overall winner went to Bryan Averill for his image titled "Triathlon Competitor" (see below). |
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To
See the top 11 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 9 PDI's from this competition Click Here |
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On Thursday 14th May the annual Five Towns Monochrome Competition took place. This years host club were Alsager Camera Club and the guest judge was Margaret Salisbury. The competition followed the usual format of scoring out of a maximum of 20points and holding back the top prints until the end. From the total entry of 50 prints Margaret held back 11 prints. From the top 11, 6 prints scored a maximum of 20 points, 3 from Crewe, 2 from Nantwich and 1 from Whitchurch. The overall "Print of the Night" went to Ian Whiston from Crewe PS for his print "Stampeding Zebra" (links to Crewe PS website). Although Whitchurch only had one print scoring a maximum of 20 point they took the overall victory with a total of 176 points, Crewe were 2nd with 175 points, Nantwich were 3rd with 172 points, 4th were Sandbach with 166 points, followed by Alsager with 161 point. Overall this was a very close competition. Below is the entry from Nantwich Camera Club for the 2009 Five towns competition. Click on the images to see a larger view and score given. |
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24th
April 2009. Overall Competition Results for the 2008-2009 Season. |
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| Click on the links below to view the overall Print, Dpi and Clubman league table results for the 2008-2009 season. | |||||||||||
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fifth and final club competition of the 2008-2009 season was an open subject
competition which was judged by Daryl Giles from Hyde. Daryl was making
his first trip to Nantwich to judge the competition for us. Starting with
the DPI's, Daryl had previewed the entry at home as the images were forwarded
to him before the competition night. From the 49 entries, Daryl held back
7 DPI's to take the highest scores, from which he awarded first place to
"Tulip Glow" (see below) by Alison Wood. In the print section Daryl was judging these on the night. After passing through the complete entry of 45 prints, 8 were held back to take the highest scores. From the 8 top entries first place went to "Windmill at Cley-next-the-sea" (see below) by Brian Sankey. |
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To
See the top 8 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 7 DPI's from this competition Click Here |
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fourth club competition of the 2008-2009 season was an open subject competition
which was judged by Graham Johnston ARPS. Graham had not seen the prints/DPI's
before the night so he said he would work his way through all the prints
giving his constructive comments and then pass through them a second time
to give his scores. |
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To
See the top 6 prints from this competition Click Here |
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See the top 8 DPI's from this competition Click Here |
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3rd club competition of the 2008-2009 season was a set subject competition.
This years theme was "Landscapes". The judge for tonight's competition
was Keith Plant from Alsager. Keith had a preview of the prints and DPI's
over Christmas so he came prepared with all his comments and scores. Starting
with the DPI's Keith first commented on the high standard of images. From
the 45 entries Keith held back 8 images (see link below) to take the highest
scores. The overall winner was "Fairy Glen" by Andrew Charlesworth
CPAGB. |
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To
See the top 6 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 8 DPI's from this competition Click Here |
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| This seasons annual battle with Sandbach was judged by Gordon Jenkins. Starting with the 20 prints, Gordon worked his way through them giving his comments, all of which were very positive. He said it was going to be very difficult not to award them all with the maximum of 20 points. On his second viewing Gordon proceeded to mark the prints. From the print entry Gordon gave 4 prints 20 points and the first place position, as he was unable to separate them. From the top 4 prints, 1 came from Sandbach, which was "Great Tit at Nest" and 3 prints (see below) belonged to Nantwich. They were "Puffins (Fracterculae Arctica)" by Brian Sankey, "Amaryllis" by Bryan Averill and "Blizzard" by Keith Wild, which Gordon picked out as his personal favourite. After the print round the scores were Nantwich 183 points, Sandbach 174 points. | |||||||||||
| Moving on to the digital projections, Gordon again commented on the very high standard of images and he was looking forward to seeing some of them in the annual L&CPU competition at the end of the season. The scoring in the DPI's was also very high. There were 3 DPI's taking first place and the top score of 20 points, "Rape of the Countryside" from Sandbach, and 2 entries (see below) from Nantwich, "Zebras at Sunset" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB and "White Necked Jacobin" by Brian Sankey. The club scores in the DPI's were Nantwich 175 points and Sandbach 175 points. The overall scores for tonight's competition were Nantwich 358 points and Sandbach 349 points. Another successful win by Nantwich Camera Club. | |||||||||||
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second competition of the 2008-2009 season was judged by Jon Allanson LRPS,
CPAGB, BPE1* from North Cheshire. This competition had been over subscribed,
so members 4 entries in each section had to be reduced to 3, so there would
be a realistic number of images for Jon to judge, but there was still 39
prints and 51 DPI's for him to get through. In the print section, Jon first
viewed the prints on the easel at very close range to give his constructive
comments. After the first run through Jon then moved to the back of the
room from where he judged the images at a distance and also gave his scores.
The winning print went to Bryan Averill for his print "Old Annecy"
(see below). In the DPI section Jon gave his comments on the first run through and then scored on the second viewing. In the DPI's the winning image was "Lily on Glass" by Alison Wood (see below). Alison is a new member this season, so congratulation to Alison for winning in only her second competition. |
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See the top 4 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 4 DPI's from this competition Click Here |
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| This was the annual inter-club battle with Whitchurch, judged by John Swanick from Shewsbury. In the print section the scores were Whitchurch 158 points and Nantwich 162 points. The winning print went to Nantwich Camera Club with "Amaryllis" by Bryan Averill (see below), scoring 19 points. In the Digital Projected Image (DPI) section Whitchurch scored 165 points and Nantwich 167 points. We also had the winning DPI with "Zebras at Sunset" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB (see below), scoring 20 points. The overall results were Whitchurch 323 points and Nantwich 329 points. A very close competition and a good start to the new seasons battles. | |||||||||||
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7th
October 2008. 1st Club Competition, Judged by Cy Newton |
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was the first competition of the 2008-2009 season. This was also the first
competition where Digital projected Images (DPI's) had replaced the slide
competition. Tonight's judge was Cy Newton from Manchester. Cy was very
kind to stand in for us last minute to cover for our original judge, who
was unable to attend. Starting with the 48 DPI's, Cy set to work to find
the overall best images from what he said was a very strong selection. Cy
analyzed the images very closely and gave good clear comments about all
of the images. In the end he manage to get down to the final three, from
which he selected "White Necked Jacobin" by Brian Sankey (see
below) as the winning Image. In the print section Cy was getting short of time as we had spent allot of time on the DPI's, never the less he still gave good clear comments about all of the 39 print, but at a much quicker speed. At the end of the print section we were left with 5 prints from which he selected "Puffin (Fratercula Arctica) by Brian Sankey (see below) as the winning print. |
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To
See the top 5 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 3 DPI's from this competition Click Here |
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5th
August 2008 Competition Rules 2008-2009 Season |
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| The rules for the 2008-2009 season competitions and entry forms are available for download at the bottom of the page. Included within the rules are the new guidelines for submitting Digital Projected Images (DPI's). To back up these guidelines the "Cropping Images for the Club Digital Projection System" workshop has been updated to guide you through the complete process. | |||||||||||
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29th
April 2008 Five Towns Monochrome Competition "Nantwich Take The Overall Victory and Print of the Night". |
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| Below is the winning entry of the "Five Towns Monochrome Print Competition 2008" for the Allan Challinor Trophy, by Nantwich Camera Club. | |||||||||||
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| If you would like a printout of all the results from the 2008 Five Towns Competition, Please Click on the link below. | |||||||||||
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Click
the links below to download a printable version of the 2009-2010
"Competition Rules". |
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Click
the links below to download a printable version of a competition
"Entry
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