L&CPU Projected Digital Image Knock-Out Competition
Gallery of our selection;
photo by Jackie Robinson
The PDI KO competition, which has replaced the slide KO, took place on Saturday 28th November and was hosted by Rochdale & District CC in Rochdale. Joyce Streets, Jon Allanson and myself were part of the capacity audience.
Clubs had been invited to submit 8 images, 7 to be judged and the 8th to be used as a tie break if necessary. The event proved popular, with 37 clubs participating, so only the first 5 images from each club were in fact projected and judged. This still presented the judge, Brian Parkes FRPS EFIAP from the Yorkshire area, with 185 images to asses. In the first round, the judge talked about each image and eliminated around 80. Later rounds, the competition went to 8, were fast with the judge simply indicating “Keep” or “Reject”. We lost “Storm Warning Morcambe Bay” by Ian Bramham and “Spire in the Mist” by Jackie Robinson in the first round. Round 2 left us without further loss, but our remaining three images, “Street Surfer” by Dorothy Redford, “Nicola” and “Duplicity” by Geoff Robinson, all fell in round 3.
Wigan 10 won convincingly with 30 points, second was Western (IoM) PS with 21. NCPS with 11 points shared 16th position. The full results are posted on the L&CPU website. The trophy for the best image went to Steven Pepper who we were told has been a member of Crewe PS for less than a year.
The judging together with the introduction, sundry L&CPU business including presentation of three PAGB Awards, a refreshment break, drawing the raffle and a short presentation of the winning club’s images by Ed Roper with explanation of their origin, were completed in just under three hours.
L&CPU Digital Projected Images (PDI) Knockout: PDF: Club Scores | PDF: Individual Images
| Points | Club |
|---|---|
| 30 | Wigan 10 Foto Club |
| 21 | Western Photographic Society |
| 19 | Hoylake Photographic Society |
| 16 | Southport Photographic Society |
| 15 | Bolton Digital PS Stockport Photographic Society |
| 14 | South Manchester Camera Club St.Helens Camera Club |
| 13 | Crewe Photographic Society Kirkby P S |
| 12 | Burnley Camera Club Bury Photographic Society Davyhulme Camera Club Hassra Fylde Photographic Society Wigan Photographic Society |
| 11 | Birkenhead PA Chapel-en-le Frith CC North Cheshire Photographic Society Preston Photographic Society Rochdale & Dist Camera Club |
| 10 | Altrincham & Hale Photographic Society Lytham St Annes Photographic Society Morecambe Photographic Society Oldham Photographic Society |
| 9 | Atherton & District APS Chorley Photographic Society Heswall Photographic Society |
| 8 | Bispham PS Halton Photographic Society Leyland Photographic Society Nelson Camera Club Ormskirk CC Warrington & District Camera Club |
| 7 | Padiham & District P S |
| 6 | Bolton Camera Club |
| 5 | Garstang Camera Club Warrington Photographic Society |