Summary
42 camera clubs from the Lancashire and Cheshire region entered. The competition was held at Elm Bank Centre, Eccles on the evening of 13 November 2021.
We finished 9th with 13 points, the winners being Southport with 17 points.
We finished 9th with 13 points, the winners being Southport with 17 points.
Competition
Knockout over several rounds, the number of which is decided on the night depending on how ruthless the judge is. Images are eliminated at each stage.
Clubs submit 8 images with the last one being a tiebreaker. The number actually used varies depending on the volume of clubs and we don’t know until the night.
Images eliminated in Round 1 score 1, Round 2 score 2 and so on. A winner was selected from the final round and that image alone gets the top score.
New work only from current club members, i.e. no previous entry to any L&CPU competition.
The first 4 images for each Club have to be from different photographers and no more than 2 images from anyone in total.
Clubs submit 8 images with the last one being a tiebreaker. The number actually used varies depending on the volume of clubs and we don’t know until the night.
Images eliminated in Round 1 score 1, Round 2 score 2 and so on. A winner was selected from the final round and that image alone gets the top score.
New work only from current club members, i.e. no previous entry to any L&CPU competition.
The first 4 images for each Club have to be from different photographers and no more than 2 images from anyone in total.
Preston Photographic Societies Images
Our 8 images were drawn from the Selection Bank to which 10 members had submitted images.
Images from 8 different members were entered, of which 4 got used on the night.
Images from Mick Porter, Iain Jack, Ian McGill, and Tim Gilbert got used. Images from Paul Yates, Gary Peltz, Helen Hatch and Trevor Southward didn’t get used.
Images from 8 different members were entered, of which 4 got used on the night.
Images from Mick Porter, Iain Jack, Ian McGill, and Tim Gilbert got used. Images from Paul Yates, Gary Peltz, Helen Hatch and Trevor Southward didn’t get used.
Results
- 4 images from each club were judged making 168 in total.
- The judge had an unenviable judge of getting through all those, particularly as the technology let us down for a while and delayed the start.
- There were 7 rounds this year, an overall winning image was selected from those in Round 7.
- We lost 1 image in Round 1, another image in Round 2 and another image in Round 4 and the last one in Round 6.
Congratulations to Iain Jack whose entry made it to R4 and Mick Porter whose chaffinches squabbled their way through to R6 and so nearly went all the way.
Nice to be back at an event in person after last year’s Zoom competition. There were many good images and some really outstanding ones, particularly in Nature. Having said that none of ours looked out of place.
Finally, thanks to Andy Philips for joining me in representing PPS on the night.
L&CPU Annual Club Competition Nature Images
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Michael Porter with Squabbling chaffinches
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Iain Jack with Creating Dust
Tim Gilbert with The appeal
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