Award winners from the 2023-24 season received their Trophies and certificates at the last meeting of the season on Tuesday 30th March from President Graham Jones.
POTY Jan Wilding, President Graham Jones, 2nd Place POTY Sue Champion, 3rd Place POTY Ian Atkinson
Thanks to all the PAGB approved judges who gave up their time to join us and judge the images. Over the seven different competitions a total of 280 images were submitted by 23 different entrants. Congratulations to Jan Wilding who won Overall Photographer of the Year, Print Photographer of the Year and DPI Photographer of the Year! Congratulations to all the winners!
CPS member Malcolm Peacock has been awarded a FIAP Gold Medal for his image Racheal in the Colour open category of the Serendipity Photo Awards, Sri Lanka. Malcolm also received 4 other acceptances in the Colour and Monochrome open categories.
Malcolm is working towards AFIAP where he is required to enter 15 international salons, in 8 different countries with 40 acceptances. He will need 15 different photographs of which 4 have to be prints. Well done Malcolm and good luck.
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.
It’s that time of year again, and on behalf of myself and the CPS Committee, I would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year.
This is the time of year where we look forward to delivering the second half of our season’s competitions and workshops at the United Reform Church, and the presentations on Zoom.
We must not forget the Exhibition in the Grosvenor Museum running from March to May 2024.
So, take the time to be with family and friends over the Christmas period and recharge your batteries for the new year’s events.
Wishing you all a “Very Pleasant Christmas” and a “Better Brighter New Year”.
Chester PS entered the recent L&CPU Annual Knockout Competition with a panel of 8 PDI images. 40 clubs entered the competition, giving a total of 320 images. As per the rules the number of images used in the competition depends on the final number of images entered; so the first four images entered by each club were used, giving judge Simon Allen a total of 160 images to judge and critique. The competition went to 7 rounds, with five images in the final round.
Wigan 10 took first place, Chorley PS second and joint third place went to Oldham PS and Lytham St Annes.
Full results can be viewed from the link below. CPS came joint 29th out of 40 along with 9 other clubs including our near neighbours Hoylake and Birkenhead.
Thank you to Jim Jones, Terry Daltrey, Keith Fitzpatrick and John Wild whose images were used in the competition and to Philip Macey, Vikky Naudi, Sue Champion and Jan Wilding whose images made up our initial entry but were not used on the night.
Jim Jones, Ian Nixon and John Wild have been presented with their awards won in last season’s Digital Projected Image competitions. All the images can be viewed here.
Jim Jones received the Trophies for both the People and the President Theme. Ian Nixon won the Landscape Shield and John Wild received the Nature Trophy. Well done chaps !
We were invited to take part in the North Cheshire Open PDI Knockout Competition which was held on Zoom on Saturday, 3rd June, 2023. Twenty seven clubs entered from around the region and each submitted 5 images from 5 different authors. Our entry came from Ray Groome, Sue Champion, Keith Fitzpatrick, Kate Sawallisch and Jan Wilding. The total number of images in the competition was 135 and it was quite a task for the judge, Terry Donnelly, who eventually whittled it down to 6 final images. Congratulations to Sue Champion whose image of ‘Seth’ made it through to the last 6 but was just pipped at the post by Stephen Moon from High Peak Photographic Club.
There was a tie for first place between Chorley PS and The Evolve Group and we came a very creditable joint 9th together with Knutsford PS, North Cheshire PS and Warrington PS. The following table shows the full results:-
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.
Chester Photographic Society 