For news about competitions
The deadline for the 1st Advanced PDI competition is midnight this Thursday 24th September. The 1st Club and Intermediate close on Thursday October 8th.
I have heard from PhotoComp that there has been an issue with their servers and potentially some entries may have been lost. I do not think that we have been affected, but can I ask all entrants to check that their entries are present. If not, you will need to re-upload them.
It’s time to dust of your photo editing skills and remember how to upload your images, PhotoComp is set up for the 1st Advanced, Club and Intermediate competitons.
Key links are here:
Many thanks to Leo Rich for judging our PDI of the year 2020. Leo judged the entries during our Zoom meeting and put a lot of time into the preparation for this event.
The winner was Jean Brooks with Let’s Not Be Sociable which is the image featured on this page.
Second place was Lorna Brown with It’s a Dog’s Life
Third place was Dinner by Paul Williams
Highly Commended
Curlers by Brian Moore
At Stedham by Richard Corkrey
Alhambra Evening Light and Fountain by Jeff Owen
All the images can be viewed here.
The featured image above is ‘At the Imperial City’© Chris Gledhill
I am pleased to say that Leo Rich, who was down to judge the PDI of the year as part of the exhibition, has agreed to judge the PDI of the Year as a stand alone competition on June 11th as a Zoom meeting.
You can upload your entries at the normal place:
http://www.photocompentries.net/?org=chichestercc
The competition is open to all classes and each member may enter up to two entries. Each entries must have already been judged in a PDI competition in this season (2019-2020). So all you have to do is select your two favourite entries and upload them.
Entries must be in by end of day 28th of May 2020.
I am pleased to say that the judge Daan Olivier has agreed to judge our entries as part of the online club meeting on 23rd April 2020.
This means that the closing date for entries is now Thursday 16th April. Please ensure that all entries are uploaded before the deadline expires.
Despite the Coronavirus, judging of the SCPF Leagues took place due to Jean Brooks efforts and are now published and I am pleased to say that Chichester CC did rather well:
We won the Print League: 1st place Chichester with 49 points; 2nd Southampton with 48 points; 3rd Basingstoke with 46 points.
The Club came 2nd in the PDI League: 1st New Forest with 60 points; 2nd Chichester with 55 points; 3rd Winchester with 44 points.
Well done to all those members who supplied images and to the Selection Committee for choosing the most appropriate images to maximise our chances of success.
We are looking at ways to complete these competitions and get them judged. Some clubs are using Zoom (or similar) to run an online competition meeting so that everyone can see the images and the judge is able to make comments and mark each image in a way that is similar to a normal competition night.
To give us time to sort this out and to allow us to discuss methods acceptable to the judge we will extend the deadline till the end of April. This will also give you more time to get entries together.
I will issue further updates as I have more things resolved.
We have just received communication about the results of the Crouch Shield. The live judging of images had to be cancelled but they have managed to get them all judged remotely. I am pleased to say that Chichester came in first place with 145 points, 2 points in front of 2nd placed Henfield. 3 of the images scored a maximum of 20 points: Alyssia Newman by ANdy Dulson; It’s a Dog’s Life by Lorna Brown and Port in a Storm by Jim Munday.
Well done to all. Another ‘trophy’ for our collection
I’m pleased to say that with the kind assistance of Rob de Ruiter we have managed to get the 3rd Advanced PDI competition judged.
Rob worked from home and typed in his comments and marks for all the entries. This was a considerable undertaking and I’d like to thank Rob very much for helping us in this way.
I have posted the scores and results through the normal channels and put together an AV with Rob’s comments and scores for each image. I hope you find this useful.
You can see all the entries and comments here.
