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Club
Competitions.
Every year as part of the Camera Club season, we hold 5 competitions both
in Prints and Digital Projected Images (DPI's), which are open to all
club members to enter. Four of the competitions are "open" subject,
where you can enter any type of image, eg: colour, monochrome (black &
white) or creative (i.e. not reality), as long as they comply with the
competition rules. The other competition in the club season (usually the
3rd) is a set subject, where the subject of the entry is given to members
by the competition secretary. This year the set subject is "Dereliction".
To see when this years competitions are and find out closing dates for
entries, see the "programme". To
read the rules of club competitions, please "Click
Here".
Inter-Club
Competitions
Each year Nantwich Camera Club participate
in a number of inter-club competitions. To find out more about these competitions
and how the Nantwich Camera Club selections are made, please "Click
Here"
The L&CPU Annual Print and Projected Image Competition
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.
16th
February 2010.
4th
Club Competition, Judged by John Royle 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.
| Winning
Print |
Winning
PDI 
"Horsey Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB |
To
See the top 12 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 11 PDI's from this competition Click Here |
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.
Malcolm
said he had laid all of the 42 prints out at home, then walked around
viewing them all. The prints that caught his eye after the first viewing
were the prints that would take the highest scores. The remaining prints
were then scored in comparison with his favourites. There were 7 prints
retained to take the highest score, from which "Brograve Drainage
Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB was given 1st place.
In the PDI section, again Malcolm had preview all of the images over the
weekend. He spent time opening some of the images into Photoshop to see
if he could have improved them in any way. If he did manage to find a
way of improving an image he then passed this on to the members. Most
of the improvements he found were down to composition, increasing the
colour and tonal range. From the 57 PDI's, Malcolm retained 9 images to
take the highest score. The overall winning image went to Andrew Charlesworth
CPAGB for his image titled "Abandoned in the Desert".
| Winning
Print  "Brograve Drainage Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth |
Winning
PDI I  "Abandoned in the Desert" by Andrew Charlesworth |
To
See the top 7 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 9 PDI's from this competition Click Here |
Top
Print with 20 points  "Red Kite" by Wray Douglas |
Top
Print with 20 points  "The Watersplash" by Wray Douglas |
Top
Print with 20 points  "Horsey Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth" |
"Over the Brow"
by Andrew Charlesworth
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).
Winning
Print  "The Cotton Mill Express" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB |
Winning
PDI  "Mesa Arch at Sunrise" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB |
To
See the top 8 prints from this competition Click Here |
To
See the top 11 PDI's from this competition Click Here |
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.
1st
place "Provencal Tree"  by Wray Douglas |
2nd
place "Red Kite"  by Wray Douglas |
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.
Nantwich CC
Whitchurch PS
29th
October 2009
Inter-Club Print and PDI competition at Bramhall
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).
"First Light at Waheap Hoodoos"
by Roslyn Walmsley
"Triathlon Competitior"
by Bryan Averill
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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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Overall Competition Results for the 2008-2009 Season.
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.
"Windmill at Cley-next-the-sea"
by Brian Sankey
"Tulip Glow"
by Alison Wood
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The
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.
In
the print section Graham scored all the prints but held back 6 prints
from the 40 entries to take the highest scores. The overall winner in
the print section went to Alma Sankey for her print titled, "Windmill
at Cley" (see below)
In
the DPI section Graham adopted the same system to view and score the images.
Graham held 8 images from the 39 entries to take the highest scores. The
overall winner of the DPI section was an image titled "Triathlele"
(see below) by Bryan Averill.
"Windmill at Cley"
by Alma Sankey
"Triathlete"
by Bryan Averill
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The
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.
In the print section Keith commented that the prints were of a much higher
standard both in print quality and presentation than the DPI's. From the
41 print entries Keith held back 6 prints (see link below) to take the
highest scores. The overall winner was "Bluebell Wood" by Andrew
Charlesworth CPAGB.
Winning
Print
"Bluebell
Wood "
by Andrew Charlesworth
"Fairy Glen "
by Andrew Charlesworth
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 "Amaryllis" by Bryan Averill |
 "Blizzard" by Keith Wild |
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 "White Necked Jacobin" by Brian Sankey |
 "Zebras at Sunset" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB |
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.
"Old Annecy"
by Bryan Averill
"Lily on Glass"
by Alison Wood
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"Amaryllis"
by Bryan Averill
Nantwich Camera Club
"Zebras at Sunset"
by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB
Nantwich Camera Club
1st Club Competition, Judged by Cy Newton
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.
Winning
Print
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"Puffin
(Fratercula Arctica)"
by Brian Sankey
"White Necked Jacobin"
by Brian Sankey
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Competition Rules 2008-2009 Season
Five Towns Monochrome Competition
"Nantwich Take The Overall Victory and Print of the Night".
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