Congratulations to the winners of our Nature Competition.

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Keith Fitzpatrick – Life on the Edge for Gentoo and Chick

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Jan Wilding – Brown Lipped Snail

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 29^th out of 40 along with 9 other clubs including our near neighbours Hoylake and Birkenhead.

Annual Club Knockout Competition 2023

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.

Report by

Jan Wilding

External Competition Secretary

Congratulations to the winners of our Landscape Competition.

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Jim Jones – Storm light on Elidir Fawr

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Vicky Naudi – Illumination over China Sea

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 !

Congratulations to the winners of our Open Competition.

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Jan Wilding – Pink Peonies

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John Wild – Chalkhill blue

We were invited to take part in the North Cheshire Open PDI Knockout Competition which was held on Zoom on Saturday, 3^rd 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 9^th together with Knutsford PS, North Cheshire PS and Warrington PS.  The following table shows the full results:-

Report by Jan Wilding

External Competition Secretary

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.

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