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Club Competitions.
Every year as part of the Camera Club season, we hold numerious competitions both in Prints and Digital Projected Images (DPI's), which are open to all club members to enter. Most 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. One of the competitions 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 "Texture & Detail". 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"
Nantwich Take the Overall Victory and "Print of the Night"
at the Annual Five Towns Monochrome Competition
The annual Five Towns Competition took place at Whichurch PS on Tuesday 11th May 2010. The Judge for this years competition was David McGuire FRPS from Walsall. David had very kindly stepped in at short notice to judge the competition as Tillman Kleinhans had still not recovered from resent surgery.
David said the way he judged battles was to view and comment on all of the images first and then score them all at the end.
After viewing all the entries, the scoring started with the lowest first. David worked his way up though all the images. At the 16 point mark we had only lost 2 prints with low scores, things were looking good. As the scoring progressed Nantwich prints were still very strong, even to a point where we had just 3 prints left. Two of these prints scored 19 points, and the final print scoring 20 marks and taking the award for
"Print of the Night" was "Horses in the Mist" by Keith Wild.
As the final total scores were added up we knew that Nantwich was in a strong position with all those high scoring prints, and sure enough we took the overall victory with a total 171 points, 2nd was Crewe with 161, 3rd Sandbach with 156, 4th Whitchurch with 154 and in 5th place, Alsager with 153 points. Congratulations to Nantwich Camera Club for taking the overall victory and to Keith Wild for his "Print of the Night". An excellent result for the end of the 2009-2010 season.
 
See below to view the Nantwich Camera Club entry for the 2010 Five Towns Competition.
Five Towns Monochrome Competition 2010
to be held on Tuesday 11th May 2010
The annual Five Towns Monochrome Competition is hosted by Whitchurch PS on Tuesday 11th May 2010. The competition with take place at Whitchurch C.E. Infants School, Station Road, Whitchurch, SY13 1RJ.
Time 7.30 for 8pm start. The judge for this years event will be Tillman Kleinhans ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAP. The Five clubs taking part in the competition are: Alsager, Crewe, Nantwich, Sandbach and Whitchurch. Each club submit an entry of 10 monochrome prints for judging. Each print will be marked out of a maximum of 20 points. There is an award for the overall winning club and also an award for the "Print of the Night" (judges favourite).
This years entry from Nantwich Camera Club is shown below. Click on the images to see a larger view.
 
 
22nd April 2010
Overall Competition Results for the 2009-2010 Season
To view the Overall Print, PDI and Clubman league tables for the 2009-2010 season, please click on the links below.
13th April 2010.
Inter Club Battle with Crewe PS, Judged by Kevin Hurst CPAGB
The annual photographic battle between Nantwich CC and Crewe PS took place at Nantwich on Tuesday 13th April and was judged by Kevin Hurst CPAGB. Kevin had made the trip from mold to judge this competition for us. His first comments were that there was a very high standard of work and he could making the judging quite easy by giving them all the maximum 20 points. With this comment he then put up the first print "Winter Mist" by David Foster of Nantwich which he awarded 20 marks and in the end "print of the night". This print was one of 3 images taking top marks in the print section, the others were "The Watersplash" & "White Crowned Sparrow" both by Wray Douglas of Nantwich. Even though we had the top three prints the scores were very tight, Nantwich 188 points, Crewe 185 points.
 
"Winter Mist"

by David Foster
"The Watersplash"

by Wray Douglas
"White Crowned Sparrow"

by Wray Douglas
 
In the PDI's Kevin had the same problem as the prints, and that was trying to separate the high Quality images. Crewe had the stronger entry with 5 images scoring the maximum of 20 points. Only one of the Nantwich entry scored 20 points which was "Horsey Mill" by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB. The scores for the PDI's were Crewe 191 points, Nantwich 181, which gave the overall victory to Crewe with a total of 376 points to Nantwich with 369 points. Congratulation to Crewe, Nantwich will try harder next year when Crewe PS will be visiting us again.
30th March 2010.
5th Club Competition, Judged by Bill Edwards
On Tuesday 30th March NCC welcomed Bill Edwards along to judge the 5th and final club competition of the 2009-2010 season. Bill was making a welcome return to the club and had traveled from Altringham to judge this competition for us. From the 52 prints entered, Bill commented on the high standard of the clubs work and held 14 prints back until the end too take the highest score. The scoring was very tight, even to a level where just half a point separated some of the images. The overall winning print scoring 20 points went to Roslyn Walmsley for her print titled "Turf Fen Drainage Mill" (see below).
In the PDI section there were 54 images to be judged. Again there was a high standard of work from which Bill held 12 images until the end. From the final 12 images the winning PDI went to Andrew Charlesworth for his image of "Valentino Rossi" (see below).
 

Winning Print

"Turf Fen Drainage Mill"
by Roslyn Walmsley
Winning PDI

"Valentino Rossi "
by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB
 
To See the top 14 prints from this competition
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To See the top 12 PDI's from this competition
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16th March 2010.
Inter Club Battle with Alsager, Judged by Andrew Brochwicz-Lewinski ARPS
The annual Nantwich and Alsager battle took place on 16th March and was judged by Andrew Brochwicz-Lewinski ARPS from Bramhall. Andrew had not seen any of the images beforehand so he would spend a small amount of time studying and commenting on them, before he gave them a score.
In the print section the overall scores were Nantwich 177.5 points, Alsager 149 points. The first place print scoring 20 points went to "Winter Mist" by David Foster from Nantwich CC.


"Winter Mist"
by David Foster
 
In the PDI section the scores were Nantwich 165.5 points, Alsager 169.5 points. There were 2 images taking joint first place with a score of 20 points "Pirates of the Med" and "Yeee Haaah" both of which were from Alsager CC.
Nantwich took the overall win with a score of 343 points to Alsagers 318.5 points.

"Pirates of the Med"

"Yeee Haaah"
 
Images used by permission of Alsager Camera Club
27th February 2010
The L&CPU Annual Print and Projected Image Competition
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.
 
16th February 2010.
4th Club Competition, Judged by John Royle CPAGB
The 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.
 

Winning Print

"Abandoned in the Desert"
by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB
Winning PDI

"Horsey Mill"
by Andrew Charlesworth CPAGB
 
To See the top 12 prints from this competition
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To See the top 11 PDI's from this competition
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19th January 2010.
3rd Club Competition, Subject "Dereliction" Judged by Malcolm Price.

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
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To See the top 9 PDI's from this competition
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16th December 2009.
Inter Club Battle with Sandbach, Judged by Christine Widdall AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE3*
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.
 
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"
 
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.
 
Winning PDI with 20 points

"Over the Brow"
by Andrew Charlesworth
8th December 2009.
2nd Club Competition, Judged by Tony Redford.
The 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).
 
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
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To See the top 11 PDI's from this competition
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30th November 2009
Chester PS Inter-Club Competition judge by Gordon Jenkins
The 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.
Click on the images to see large view
 
1st place
"Provencal Tree"

by Wray Douglas
2nd place
"Red Kite"

by Wray Douglas
3rd November 2009
Inter Club Battle with Whitchurch, Judged by David Hollows CPAGB
The 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.
 
Winning Print

Nantwich CC
Winning PDI

Whitchurch PS
 


Individual Print Results

Individual PDI Results
29th October 2009
Inter-Club Print and PDI competition at Bramhall
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.
 

Print Results

PDI Results
6th October 2009.
1st Club Competition, Judged by Peter Gennard, MFIAP, EFIAP/p
The 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).
 
Winning Print

"First Light at Waheap Hoodoos"
by Roslyn Walmsley
Winning PDI

"Triathlon Competitior"
by Bryan Averill
 
To See the top 11 prints from this competition
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To See the top 9 PDI's from this competition
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Click the links below to download a printable version of the 2010-2011 "Competition Rules".
   

Adobe Acrobat reader. pdf file

Microsoft Word Document .doc file
Click the links below to download a printable version of a competition "Entry Form"
 

Adobe Acrobat reader. pdf file

Microsoft Word Document .doc file
Any member who believes that an entry to the Club competition did not comply with the Club rules shall report this entry to the Competition Secretaries on a Complaint Form for consideration by the Committee
Click the links below to download a printable version of a "Competition Complaint Form"
 
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