{"id":26515,"date":"2026-02-21T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/?p=26515"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:49:43","slug":"the-epsom-camera-club-invitation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/?p=26515","title":{"rendered":"The Epsom Camera Club Invitation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Monday Epsom Camera Club hosted their annual Invitation Challenge competition. This is an inter-club competition that has been running for many years between Epsom CC and four invited clubs. Previously this was a print and PDI competition, held at the Epsom CC venue, but since Covid it has become PDI-only, taking place over Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We won this competition last year so were invited back. The other three invited clubs this year were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Godalming Photographic Club<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maidstone Camera Club<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tandridge Photographic Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge for the evening was Naomi Saul ARPS ASINWP DPAGB EFIAP APAGB BPE4*.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Selection Committee selected ten PDIs from ten different photographers for our entry this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a close match but Epsom were victorious with 90.5 points while we were joint runners-up with Maidstone on 88.5 points. Our top scoring images were &#8220;Lamara Distin&#8221; by Andy Dulson which scored 10 and &#8220;Porth Nanven&#8221; by Andy Bracey which scored 9.5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we have taken part for two years running we won&#8217;t be invited back next year but will stay on Epsom&#8217;s list of clubs to be invited in future years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-366c3e0a-51c0-4a0d-bba3-ff1f31be9d48\">The featured image above is <strong><em>Lamara Distin<\/em><\/strong> \u00a9&nbsp;Andy Dulson, which scored 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday Epsom Camera Club hosted their annual Invitation Challenge competition. This is an inter-club competition that has been running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competition-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chichestercameraclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}