2024 L&CPU Knock-Out Competition

The annual L&CPU Knock-Out competition was held on 16th November at the Elmbank Conference Centre in Eccles, judged by Mike Sharples (ARPS, MPAGB) from Smethwick PS in the Midlands Federation. Each club entered 8 images, however as 35 clubs took part, the number of images entered into the judging was reduced to just 5 images per club, giving 175 images to be judged on the night. Mike gave a brief comment on each image, and knocked out over 100 images in the first pass. After that he seemed more reluctant to knock out some very fine images, and it was only after the 7th round that he had whittled it down to just 9 images, at which point he selected his overall winner.

Scores are awarded based on the round at which an image was eliminated, and the overall competition was won by Chorley with a score of 29pts. LSAPS finished a very creditable 5th on 20pts. The winning image was a Mono Architectural shot titled Pet Armadillo by David Boam from North Cheshire PS.

Congratulations to Chris Taylor, who’s Sparrow Hawk was the last LSAPS image standing, making it to Round 6. LSAPS results and images are shown below, whilst a gallery of all images reaching at least the second round is available on the L&CPU portal (note you must be registered on the portal and logged in to view the link):-

Link To L&CPU Gallery