Chester PS entered the recent L&CPU Annual Club Competition PDI Section with a panel of 8 Nature images and 16 Open images. Thirty four clubs entered the competition giving a total of 801 images. The judging for the PDI and Print sections were held over two days at Elm Bank Conference Centre, Eccles and the judges for the weekend were Richard Spiers DPAGB, APAGB, Hon PAGB, John Cartlidge APAGB, EFIAP/p, BPE5 and Howard Tate MA(Phot), ARPS, APAGB, AFIAP.
Chorley PS won the Nature PDI category with 104 points, with Poulton le Fylde PS in 2nd place with 98 points, and Wigan 10 Foto Club in 3rd place with 97 points. Chester PS came in joint 20th with Stalybridge and scored 84 points.
The Open PDI category was won by Oldham PS with 200 points, with Wigan 10 Foto Club in 2nd with 196 points and Chorley in 3rd place with 188 points and they were the top-ranking clubs overall in the PDI Section of the competition. Chester PS came in joint 21st along with the Evolve Group.
The final overall club ranking includes scores from both the PDI and Print Competitions. 19 clubs also entered the Print Competition but this year we only entered the PDI section. However, in the final ranking we were 28th out of 37 with a total of 247 points.
Thanks to Vicky Naudi, Veronica Nicholas, Donna Hughes, Patricia Keegan, Sue Champion, Terry Daltrey, Ian Nixon, Jim Jones, Keith Fitzpatrick and Jan Wilding whose images were used as part of our entry.
You can see all the results here: https://lcpu.org/2024/03/annual-club-print-pdi-competitions-2024/
Report by Jan Wilding
External Competition Secretary
Chester Photographic Society 