Image above - Angela Kershaw - ​Mini Mad Professor

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Summary

Preston Photographic Society (PPS) won with 381 points, 5 clear of Leyland and 17 clear of Chorley.

Chorley’s Robin Price had the best scoring image with Vulture Dispute, Angela Kershaw from PPS was second with ‘Mini-mad professor’ and Alf Myers from PPS was third with ‘Muddy pursuits;’.
 
The judge was Terry Donnelly who, as usual, provided a very insightful commentary on the images submitted and provided much food for thought going forward.

Competition

An ’Open’ competition with nature restrictions not applied. No more than 3 images from any author and all images cannot have been used before in a previous 3 way battle.
 
24 PDI’s (Projected Digital Images) from each team, each image scoring up to 20 inline with our scoring for internal competitions.

Preston Photographic Societies Images

All our images were selected by the Selection Committee and we included images from 15 different members.
 
We had to rule out some images as they had been used previously in this competition.
 
We had:

• 1 image scoring 19
• 1 image scoring 18
• 7 images scoring 17
• 7 images scoring 16
• 8 images scoring 15 or less

 
Terry is a hard but fair judge and the average image score for all 72 images on the night was circa 15.5 so the above is terrific.
 
Detailed results and an image slideshow of our images are available below.
 
As always, any questions let me know.
 
Tim Gilbert
External Competition Secretary
5 March 2021

3 Way Battle -  2021 Preston Photographic Societies Images

2021 Preston Photographic Societies Scores

3 Way Battle - 4 March 2021 - PDI Entries.

	Image Name	Author Name	Score
1	Muddy Pursuits	Alf Myers	18
2	Gentleness	Robert Turley	16
3	Kestrel	Mick Porter	17
4	Garlic collection	​Andy Phillips	17
5	Razorbill landing	Tim Gilbert	14
6	Florence Rose	Angela Kershaw	14
7	The Light Warrior	​Carol Main	13
8	Blue Belle	​Nancy Phillips	16
9	A Kaleidescope of Blue	Trevor Southward	15
10	Fatheha, Simply	​Dave Duxbury	14
11	​Eurasian Sparowhawk	Ian McGill	17
12	Traditional Japan	​Allison Lyon	14
13	​Unsighted	​Alf Myers	16
14	Gannet with nesting material	Tim Gilbert ​	17
15	Surprise Present ​	Andy Phillips	17
16	The Kelpie	Helen Hatch	17
17	Business as usual	Paul Yates	16
18	Squirrel in the Rain	Nancy Phillips	16
19	Male Kestrel  ​	​Trevor Southward	15
20	Between the lines ​	Helen Hatch	17
21	Aurora	Gary Peltz	14
22	Tender	Helen Hatch	16
23	​Mini Mad Professor	Angela Kershaw	19
24	​Common Kestrel with Prey	Ian McGill	16
			381 Points