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 !
Our judge was Bill Buck.
The images were judged in two categories, Print and Digital Images. Our members retain the copyright of their work and all rights are reserved.
These images are low quality images for display purposes only.
Click on any of the images below to start a slideshow.
Click on any of the images below to start a slideshow.
Congratulations to the winners of our Open Competition.
Jan Wilding – Pink Peonies
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, 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:-
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
Our judge was Geoff Reader DPAGB BPE3*.
The theme this year was Movement.
The images were judged in two categories, Print and Digital Images. Our members retain the copyright of their work and all rights are reserved.
These images are low quality images for display purposes only.
Click on any of the images below to start a slideshow.
Click on any of the images below to start a slideshow.
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.
Chester Photographic Society 