Category Archives: External Club Competitions

2021 Seaside Invitation

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The Seaside Invitation competition against Southport PS was held on Thursday 9th December, hosted by LSAPS. The competition was judged by Adrian Lines (MPAGB, AFBPE, AFIAP) who provided a number of feedback points such as cropping to either give space to the subject or cropping close to create some tension, and attention to small points of detail like highlights, distracting elements or slight halos around objects.

LSAPS were trailing slightly after the first Print round, but came out ahead after the PDI round, with a total score of 674pts against Southport’s 666pts.

Congratulations to Carol Watson whose Vestrahorn Reflections was the only LSAPS print to score 20pts, and to Bill Breckenridge, Kuli Virdee and Gordon Watson who all scored 20pts in the PDI competition.

Vestrahorn Reflection By Carol Watson

LSAPS Scores

2021 5-Way Battle

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Dickensian by Kuli Virdee

The 2021 5-Way Battle was held on Tuesday 23rd November, hosted by Garstang PS on Zoom. The competition involves LSAPS, Poulton, Bispham, Garstang and North Fylde, with 15 images being entered from each club. Judge for the evening was Erica Oram from Sheffield, who judged our Photoshow a couple of years ago. Erica provided good detailed critique of each image to justify the scores.

At the end of the evening, LSAPS scored 242pts which placed us in third place by just one point behind North Fylde, with Poulton winning with 255pts. Garstang and Bispham placed 4th and 5th respectively. All the LSAPS image scores are listed below – congratulations to Kuli Virdee and Gordon Watson, who each scored a maximum 20pts for one of their images.

2021 L&CPU Knock-Out Competition

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All At Sea by Gordon Watson

The 2021 L&CPU Knock-Out competition was held on Saturday13th November, judged by John Cartlidge APAGB, EFIAP/p, BPE5* from the Midland Counties Photographic Federation. 41 clubs entered, with 4 images from each club. Images are progressively knocked out in a series of rounds, until only a handful are left, at which point the judge selects his overall winner. Scores are awarded for the round reached by each image. All images in the Knock-Out competition must be new to L&CPU competitions.

LSAPS scored a notable success, coming in second equal place, tied with Nelson and Kendal and just one point behind winners Southport. Of LSAPS 4 entries,  Justin’s Camels in Wadi Rum was knocked out in the first round and Carol’s Money, Money Money in the second. However Kuli’s Proud Soldier reached the sixth round and Gordon’s All At Sea reached the seventh and final round, giving LSAPS a score of 16pts.

2021 L&CPU Novice Cup

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Waiting His Turn by Peter Cotton

The 2021 Novice Cup took place on Sunday 10th October, the first L&CPU print competition since March 2020!

21 Clubs took part and LSAPS did very well in the Mono Section, finishing in joint 1st place alongside South Manchester CC. Congratulations to Peter Cotton who received a Commended for his print “Waiting His Turn“. Unfortunately we didn’t do so well in the Colour Section, finishing in 12th place. This section was won by North Cheshire PS and Heswall PS. The overall winners of the Cup were Bebington PS with a score of 283 and LSAPS finished 10th with a score of 271.

Note that the Novice Cup is to be renamed, recognising that it is not just for novices and will now be known as the Bob Robinson Cup, in honour of the late L&CPU President.