1st Open PDI Competition (2024/25)
The 1st Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 17th October by Dave Butler (MFIAP MPSA2 ARPS BPE5 Hon LCPU) from Wigan 10 Photographic Society. Dave used a good range of scores with only relatively few images receiving the highest marks.
The top scoring images are listed below.
| Group | Member Name | Title | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Janet Parker | Dummy Toyz | 20 |
| Intermediate | Esther Parkinson | Waiting For Love | 20 |
| Advanced | Gordon Watson | As Soft As Silk | 20 |
| Advanced | Mary Kirkby | Mongolian Eagle Hunter | 20 |
The featured image for this competition is Waiting For Love by Esther Parkinson which scored 20pts in the Intermediate Section.
Waiting For Love by Esther Parkinson
1st Open PDI Image Gallery
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The Jolly Bus Driver — by Sheila Giles — Score: 15 pts
Overlooking Hawes — by Mary Woodland — Score: 13 pts
Horsefly — by Stuart Cahill — Score: 16 pts
Mongolian Eagle Hunter — by Mary Kirkby — Score: 20 pts
Our Nuclear Neighbours — by Allan Lonsdale — Score: 12 pts
Firework Championship — by Mike Halstead — Score: 16 pts
Kaleidoscope Of Colour — by Anne Young — Score: 15 pts
American Bald Eagle — by Dave Biggs — Score: 16 pts
Inspiral Carpets — by Peter Cotton — Score: 15 pts
A Borrowdale Banksy — by Graham Barker — Score: 16 pts
Dummy Toyz — by Janet Parker — Score: 20 pts
Tight Turn — by Mike Dorrington — Score: 15 pts
Saltburn Pier — by Ian Mulroy — Score: 14 pts
Kingfisher With Stickleback — by Dave Munn — Score: 18 pts
Red White And Blue — by Simon Ray — Score: 18 pts
Blue Boat On The Bude Canal — by John Scott — Score: 13 pts
Playing Hide And Seek In The Rain — by Bill Breckenridge — Score: 14 pts
Wild Swimmers At Janet's Foss — by David Foreman — Score: 15 pts
Daisy Drops — by Peter Flegg — Score: 19 pts
Misty Mountain Blues — by Gordon Watson — Score: 17 pts
Fairy Glen Shafts Of Light — by Dave Munn — Score: 17 pts
Whitby Pier And Light — by Ian Mulroy — Score: 15 pts
Nai Yang Coral — by Alan Yardley — Score: 13 pts
Eye Of The Kelpie — by John Walmsley — Score: 14 pts
Meadow Pipit — by Eric Craven — Score: 19 pts
Migrant Hawker Sunning — by Mike Stanley — Score: 17 pts
Growing Wild — by Margaret Keane — Score: 15 pts
Just The Two Of Us — by Christine Round — Score: 15 pts
What I Saw This Morning — by Peter Flegg — Score: 12 pts
Ready For Take-Off — by Chris Taylor — Score: 16 pts
Table And Chair — by Brian Clark — Score: 15 pts
Keeping Watch — by Grant Douse — Score: 16 pts
A Less Trodden Way — by Marilyn Mulroy — Score: 12 pts
Echoes Of The Storm — by Elaine Cook — Score: 19 pts
Hebridean Seascape — by Mike Williamson — Score: 14 pts
Paddling Wast Water — by David Broughton — Score: 15 pts
Lancaster Bomber — by Stuart Cahill — Score: 16 pts
Spartan C27J Top Of The Loop — by Anthony Hull — Score: 14 pts
Vale Special 898cc Time Trial — by Mike Halstead — Score: 15 pts
Gannets Life On The Edge — by Chris Taylor — Score: 16 pts
Corridors Of Colour — by Peter Cotton — Score: 14 pts
Loch Tarff Reflections — by Keith Orr — Score: 16 pts
Please Eat Your Greens — by Simon Ray — Score: 15 pts
Stranded At Corpach — by Karen Morris — Score: 15 pts
Shibden Hall — by Mary Woodland — Score: 14 pts
Fleetwood Wrecks — by Daryl Giles — Score: 16 pts
Deers At Dusk — by Esther Parkinson — Score: 18 pts
Grapes — by David Foreman — Score: 14 pts
Agapanthus Explosion — by Marilyn Mulroy — Score: 12 pts
The Shipwreck At Corpach — by Keith Orr — Score: 14 pts
Salmesbury Hall — by Jennifer Wolstenholme — Score: 18 pts
Sunset Beadnell Harbour — by Carol Watson — Score: 17 pts
Orange Tip Butterfly — by Joy Swarbrick — Score: 15 pts
Lindis Pass - New Zealand — by Peter Parnell — Score: 15 pts
Harvest Mouse Quartet — by Sheila Giles — Score: 18 pts
Rufus The Baby Orangutan — by Peter Darby — Score: 17 pts
Female Javelin Wasp In Flight — by Mike Stanley — Score: 15 pts
Puffin With Sandeels — by Mary Kirkby — Score: 15 pts
Rusting Roofs — by Christine Round — Score: 14 pts
As Soft As Silk — by Gordon Watson — Score: 20 pts
I'll Take The High Road — by Bill Breckenridge — Score: 16 pts
Cattle Egret Dispute — by Brian Clark — Score: 17 pts
Barn Owl In Flight — by Grant Douse — Score: 16 pts
A Craicing Good Time — by Anne Young — Score: 16 pts
Cormorant About To Fly — by Peter Parnell — Score: 16 pts
Eilean Glas Lighthouse - Eriskay — by Mike Williamson — Score: 15 pts
Workshop Chaos — by Eric Craven — Score: 16 pts
Time Lines — by Andy Ogilvie — Score: 16 pts
Give Us A Kiss — by Anthony Hull — Score: 15 pts
Red Arrows Maintenance — by Carl Nowell — Score: 15 pts
Causeway To Ardvreck — by Allan Lonsdale — Score: 17 pts
Peonies — by Joy Swarbrick — Score: 15 pts
Pipe Dreams — by Andy Ogilvie — Score: 19 pts
Male Pied Flycatcher — by Peter Darby — Score: 19 pts
Naturally Framed — by Graham Barker — Score: 16 pts
Arles Town — by Jennifer Wolstenholme — Score: 18 pts
Waiting For Love — by Esther Parkinson — Score: 20 pts
Dapper Gent — by Carol Watson — Score: 19 pts
Looking Sheepish — by David Broughton — Score: 14 pts
21st Century Medieval Maiden — by Alan Yardley — Score: 16 pts
Red Arrows Blackpool — by John O'Donoghue — Score: 13 pts
Eyed Hawk Moth Caterpillar — by John Walmsley — Score: 13 pts
Guarding The Prisoner — by Dave Biggs — Score: 12 pts
Shipwrecks At Mull — by Karen Morris — Score: 14 pts
Steam Coming Through — by Carl Nowell — Score: 18 pts
The Fiddle Player — by Daryl Giles — Score: 16 pts
Breakfast — by Pete Dugan — Score: 16 pts
Quarry Bank Mill — by John Scott — Score: 14 pts
Somewhere In Scotland — by Janet Parker — Score: 19 pts
Passage Into The Mist — by Elaine Cook — Score: 16 pts
Gresgarth Hall — by Mike Dorrington — Score: 14 pts
Migrant Hawker — by Pete Dugan — Score: 15 pts
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