Chester PS entered the recent L&CPU Annual Club Competition PDI Section with a panel of 8 Nature images and 16 Open images. The judging for both the PDI and Print sections were held over two days (1st and 2nd March) at Elm Bank Conference Centre, Eccles and the judges for the weekend were Roger Evans EFIAP/p, MPAGB, FBPE, Dave Tucker EFIAP/p, DPAGB, BPE4, and Angie Tucker EFIAP/p, DPAGB, BPE4. Forty clubs entered from around the region and the judges scored a total of 947 PDI images and there were 504 prints from 21 clubs.
The Nature category was a tightly contested battle, with Chorley PS, Southport PS and South Manchester CC all finishing in first place with 99 points. However, this wasn’t our strongest entry with Chester coming joint 35th out of 37 clubs along with Western (I.O.M) Photographic Society.
The Open category saw Chorley PS take the top spot with 206 points with Oldham PS and Preston PS both receiving 199 points each. We did better in this category, coming in at joint 12th out of 41 clubs along with The Evolve Group. Interestingly, last year we came joint 21st also with The Evolve Group.
The final overall club ranking includes scores from both the PDI and Print Competitions. Again, this year we only entered the PDI section and in the final ranking we were 29th out of 40 with a total of 254 points. A full report can be found on the L&CPU web site here:
https://lcpu.org/2025/03/annual-club-print-and-pdi-competition-1-2-march-2025/
Thanks to Ian Atkinson, Sue Champion, Keith Fitzpatrick, Donna Hughes, Jim Jones, Patricia Keegan, Graham Latter, Veronica Nicholas, Malcolm Peacock, Kate Sawallisch, John Wild and Jan Wilding whose images we used to compile our entry.
Jan Wilding External Competition Secretary
Chester Photographic Society 