CPS President Graham Jones presented trophies to Keith Fitzpatrick, Sue Champion and Jan Wilding.
The Annual Dinner and Presentation of Trophies was held at Chez Jules on Monday 17th April. President Graham Jones congratulated members on the standard of entries submitted to this year’s competitions.
Thanks go to Kate Sawallisch for booking the venue and Terry Daltry for organising the engraving of trophies.
Congratulations to Keith Fitzpatrick who won Photographer of the Year. Second place went to Sue Champion and third place to Ron Sutton.
Award
Winner
Photographer of the Year
Keith Fitzpatrick
482 points
2nd place
Sue Champion
475 points
3rd place
Ron Sutton
453 points
Print Photographer of the Year
Keith Fitzpatrick
249 points
DPI Photographer of the Year
Sue Champion
235 points
Open DPI
Keith Fitzpatrick
The Spiral Stairs
Open Print
Jan Wilding
4 Pink Tulips
Landscape DPI
Ian Nixon
Alpine Church, Mieming Austria
Landscape Print
Keith Fitzpatrick
White Horses at Skegness
Nature DPI
John Wild
Sea Eagle
Nature Print
Keith Fitzpatrick
Peacock at Full Volume
Mono. DPI
Sue Champion
Seth
Mono. Print
Ron Sutton
Deep Freeze Trees
Abstract DPI
Sue Champion
Inferno
Abstract Print
Keith Fitzpatrick
Diamond
People DPI
Jim Jones
Becky Focused
People Print
Sue Champion
Steampunk Dave
Pres. Theme DPI
Jim Jones
Downward Bound
Pres. Theme Print
Sue Champion
Wings of Grace
Following an enforced break due to COVID this season saw the return of our Print competitions and a return to ‘face to face’ competitions at The United Reform Church in Vicar’s Cross. Thanks to all the PAGB approved judges who gave up their time to join us and judge the images.
This season we replaced two of our ‘Open’ competitions with Landscape and Abstract themed competitions.
Over the seven different competitions a total of 312 images were submitted by 20 different entrants.
The Hoylake International Small Prints Exhibition was held recently with the award ceremony last week. This exhibition, which enjoys the support of the Photographic Society of America (PSA), attracted over 500 entries from 10 countries with only a third of entries being accepted.
Sue Champion had four images accepted and was awarded a PSA Ribbon for her image “Lightshade Curves” in the Geometry section. She also had three images accepted in the Flowers-Colour section. Congratulations to Sue.
The L&CPU Annual Club DPI Competition for 2023 was judged last weekend in Chorley. We submitted 16 images to the Open Section and 8 to the Nature section. All images were taken from recent CPS competitions and we were pleased to be able to include works from some newer members in our entry.
Congratulations must go to John Wild and Terry Daltrey whose images of the ‘Sea Eagle’ and ‘Grey Heron’ both scored 13 out of 15 points in the Nature Section and to Jim Jones whose landscape image ‘The Rivals’ also scored 13 points out of 15 in the Open Section.
Again, we were competing against some of the very best clubs in Lancashire and Cheshire and although we may not have scored very highly in the overall Club ranking, coming 30th out of 36 clubs, we were proud to take part.
The following links will take you to the Online Catalogue and the Virtual Galleries on the L&CPU site where you can see the award winning images from this competition.
Congratulations and thanks to Patricia Keegan, Sue Champion, Vikki Naudi, Kate Sawallisch, Jim Jones, Jim Walshe, John Beavan, Ron Sutton, Keith Fitzpatrick, Terry Daltrey, John Wild, Ian Atkinson, Ian Nixon and Jan Wilding whose images we used in our entry.
Congratulations to the winners of our Abstract Competition. This was the first time we have held a competition on this theme and there was a lot of interest to see the variety of images members has entered, and the judge’s comments were very well received.
Chester PS recently took part in the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain GB Cup. We scored 107 points and were placed 13th out of 14 in the GB Cup (Limited Eligibility) formerly known as the GB Cup for Small Clubs. This was a nationwide competition, and we were up against some of the very best clubs in the country. Although we may not have scored very highly on this occasion it is, as they say, the taking part that counts and it all helps to raise the profile of our club and hopefully encourages us to take even better photos.
Thanks must go to Sue Champion, Keith Fitzpatrick, Jim Jones, Patricia Keegan, David Melville, Ron Sutton, Jim Walshe and Jan Wilding for the use of their images.
Report by Jan Wilding, External Competition Secretary