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1st Open Print Competition (2022/23)

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The delayed 1st Open Print Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 24th November by Paul King (CPAGB) from North Fylde Photographic Society. There was an entry of 69 images, split evenly between Intermediate and Advanced. Paul mentioned that the general standard was good and gave his comments on what he liked about each image, but only occasionally provided suggestions for improvements.

The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Water Line by Marilyn Mulroy, which scored 20pts in the Intermediate section.

Water Line By Marilyn Mulroy

1st Set Subject Competition (2022/23) – Naturally Occurring Patterns

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The 1st Set Subject Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 17th November by Ove Alexander (CPAGB, BPE1*) from Stockport Photographic Society. The subject was Naturally Occurring Patterns, and there was a wide interpretation of what this actually meant. There was also a large entry of 113 images, however Ove provide a short and clear critique of each image and completed his judgement in good time. He also used a wide range of scores as he thought it important to provide feedback on the relative position of all the images rather than grouping a large number on the same score.

The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Proud Peacock by Eddie Killick, which scored 20pts in the Print Competition.

Proud As A Peacock by Eddie Killick

1st Open Digital Competition (2022/23)

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The 1st Open Digital Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 20th October by James Hardy (CPAGB, LRPS, AFIAP) from Chorley Photographic Society. James is also president of the L&CPU. With almost 100 images to judge it was a long night, but James approached the judging with humour. In general he was looking for images that told some sort of a story that made the viewer think, and he commented that a few might be improved by cropping and a few cases where the processing was not adding to the image.

The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Spoiled Harvest by Peter Flegg which scored 20pts in the Intermediate Group.

1st Open Digital Competition – Image Gallery

Spoiled Harvest By Peter Flegg

2022 North Cheshire Challenge

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Father Brown By Gordon Watson

The North Cheshire Challenge is organised by the North Cheshire Photographic Society and usually consists of two competitions held over a weekend – an interclub print competition and an interclub Digital Knock-out competition. The latter took place on Friday night on Zoom, judged by Terry Donnelly.

In a knock-out competition, about half the images are removed in each round until at round 5 only a few remain and the judge chooses their overall winner. Points are then awarded for the round which an image reaches – 1pt for the first round, 2 pts for the second etc.

Those of us that Zoomed in were treated to a really high standard of images from the 21 Clubs taking part. Terry did a great job judging the competition and provided some excellent and detailed critique. LSAPS finished in a very commendable 5th place with a score of 14pts – congratulations to Kuli Virdee and Gordon Watson whose images reached the 4th round. Southport PS and Wigan 10 shared the top spot on 18pts and Trevor Davenport of Southport had the top image of the night.

Unfortunately there were insufficient entries from the clubs to run the print competition.

2022 L&CPU Annual Club Print Competition

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Neighbourhood Watch by Kuli Virdee

The annual L&CPU Club Print competition was held on Sunday 3rd April at the Elm Bank Conference Centre in Eccles. The Print competition involves 18 images from each club – 6 in Open Colour, 6 in Mono and 6 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score of 15pts. Only 15 clubs competed in the Print competition, and Lytham placed 5th in Colour, 5th in the Mono and 8th in Nature, putting us in 6th place overall with a score of 294pts. The competition was won by Wigan 10 with a total score of 324pts.

Congratulations to Kuli Virdee whose Neighbourhood Watch scored a maximum 15pts in Mono, and also to Kuli (again), Carol Watson, Gordon Watson and Andy Dickson who all had images that scored 14pts.

LSAPS Image Scores

2022 L&CPU Annual Club PDI Competition

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The Hurdlers By Brian Clark

The annual L&CPU Club PDI competition was held on Saturday 2nd April at the Elm Bank Conference Centre in Eccles. The PDI competition involves 18 images from each club – 12 in Open (Colour or Mono) and 6 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score 15pts. After the Open competition, LSAPS were lying in 7th equal position with 199pts, but dropped back to 12th equal after the Nature round with a total of 295pts. The competition was won by Chorley PS, with a total score of 317pts.

The scoring was relatively generous, and although none of the LSAPS images achieved a top score of 15pts, there were a number which scored a very creditable 14pts.

Congratulations to Brian Clark, Carol Watson, Gordon Watson, Justin Clayton and Kuli Virdee who all had images scoring 14pts in the Open Competition, and to Anthony Hull and Bill Breckenridge who had images scoring 14pts in the Nature Competition.

LSAPS Image Scores