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.

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.

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.

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.

Hoping this finds you all well.

We have contacted the judges for the 3rd Advanced PDI and 3rd Club Intermediate PDI competitions and I am happy to say that they have agreed to mark the competitions from home.

This will start with the 3rd Advanced PDI, which had been closed for a while anyway. I will anonymise the entries and provide a scoresheet to the judge so he can score and record brief comments on each entry. I will publish the results along with the comments when this has been completed.

Since there is no rush, I will extend the deadline for the 3rd Club and Int PDI competitions to give people plenty of time to get entries together and then we will apply the same process.

I hope you will join me in thanking Rob de Ruiter and Daan Oliver for making the time to do this.

We are still looking at ways that we might complete the Club and Int Print competitions. It is unlikely that we can use actual prints due to the problems in handling them, but we are actively looking for solutions. Watch this space.

Many other proposals are being discussed so more updates should be expected.

Keep Well