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.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Terry Daltrey
Internal Competitions Secretary
Congratulations to the winners of our President’s Theme Competition. The theme this year was Movement.
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.
https://lcpu-portal.org/portal/catalogue/catalogue.php?A=MTA3
https://lcpu-portal.org/portal/gallery/newbuild.php?id=MTA3
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.
Jan Wilding
External Competition Secretary
Congratulations to the winners of our People Competition.
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
Congratulations to the winners of our Monochrome Competition.
Chester Photographic Society 