External Competition Results
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Southport Flower Show 2010
'Stefan Buczacki Photographic Competition'
SPS Winners
pic; Garry Parker
Kit got a Second in the Garden Views and Roy got a commended in the Garden Wildlife.
Noel also got a commended but was not at the show.
Young Nick got two prizes, one in Garden Views and one in Plant Portraits.
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L&CPU Exhibition 2010
Les Auld & Mike Pollitt ARPS both won Certifiactes of Merit
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Cotswold Salon
of
Monochrome Photography 2010
Nick Hilton won a Gold Medal with 'You looking at me?'
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Disabled Photographers Exhibition 2010
Mike Pollitt ARPS gained 1-First, 2-Second's, 2-Highly Commended & 1-Commended
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The Great British Cup 2010
Congratulations to all involved.
SPS finished in Joint 8th place (along with Wigan PS) in the 2010 Great British Cup DPI Competition, 4 places higher than last year!
We are still the highest ranking L&CPU club, after winners Wigan 10 in this competition.
Owing to the bad weather the new Gt British Cup-Natural History competition could not be held so will be judged at a later date (and we have a very good entry for that one too!)
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L&CPU 2009 Club Challenge Competitions
Six
members attended the Print Competition on Saturday
morning to do battle with the other four clubs
enterd for a place in the British Print Championships which take place at
Connor Quay in October.
In
the 1st round 12 prints from 9 members were entered, with
both
Alan Pyrke's 'Odette' and
Brian Tarr's
'Freestler
MX Rider' getting 14pts with 4 others
getting 13pts. Round 1 totals were;
Southport 150pts
Chorley 147pts
HASRA Fylde
137pts
South Manchester 133pts
Accrington 123pts
In the 2nd round 15 prints by 11 members were judged with Alan Pyrke's 'Odette'
getting 15pts
and Short Eyered Owl, Freestler MX Rider, Dash for the
line and Nuthatch all getting 14pts
At
the end of the competition the total points were:
Chorley 195pts
Southport
193pts
South
Manchester 183pts
HASRA Fylde
172pts
Accrington 170pts
So Chorley
and Southport go forward (along with Wigan 10) to represent the L&CPU
in the National Print Championships on October 24th.
Saturday evening
and only 3 members were present at the Digital Projected Image Club Challenge
in the 1st round we enterd 8 images from 6 members with Mike Pollitt's 'David
Weir, Gold Medllist' getting 15pts
and Keith Suddaby's 'Staircase' getting 14pts.
Round
1 totals were;
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In
the 2nd round we used 8 images from 7 members with Dianne Thompson's 'Left
Jab' getting 15pts
and Brian Tarr's 'For those in
Peril' getting 14pts with
4 others getting 13pts
In the Final
Round we had to use 20 images, these were from 13 members.
Mike Pollitt's 'David Weir, Gold Medllist' and
Dianne
Thompson's 'Left Jab' both scored
15pts again
with 2 more scoring 14pts and 8 getting 13pts.
the final placings were:
Southport
251pts
Chorley 250pts
Wigan 234pts
Lytham 231p
South
Manchester 218ptsts
Accrington
210pts
Leyland
210pts
PS: I would love to know if anyone actually reads these reports! Please let me know if you do!! Mike P
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North
Cheshire Print & DPI Competitions 2009
Two competitions were held by NCPS to packed houses at Poynton of Wednesday
12th February and Thursday 13th .For Wednesdays print competition Gary Parker
and Mike Pollitt attended and in the final scores we were joint 5th with 3
other clubs on 87 pts, only 2pts behind the three 2nd placed clubs on 89pts
with Wigan 10 winning on 94.5 pts.
Our entry was Culture Corner by Trevor Davenport 16 pts, The Onlooker by Gary
Parker 17 pts and Alan Barnes by Paul Bentley, Freestyle MX Rider by Brian
Tarr and Booze Snooze by Mike Pollitt all getting 18 pts.
The following evening Peter Pauwels and Mike Pollitt went again to see the
Digital Projected Image competition in which we finished joint 12th with 5
other clubs on 9 pts. The competition was won by North Cheshire PS with 16
pts, beating into 2nd place, wait for it….Wigan 10 and Leek PC, both
on 15 pts. Well done North Cheshire!
Both these events were great for seeing some of the best digital images in
the L&CPU, it is just a great shame that more SPS members don't support
the club in these outings. There are usually some spare seat going in the
car, just ask.
The next BIG event is on Saturday February 28 at Chorley
with prints in the morning and DP Images in the evening. These two competitions
will feature the very latest digital images in the L&CPU and should not
be missed.
Please come along and support YOUR club.
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Who
are the Champions? 2009
On January 19 Southport PS welcomed Bury PS, Chorley PS, Lytham St Annes PS,
North Cheshire PS, St Helens PS,
South Manchester PS and Wigan 10 FC (not Football Club!)
Our referee was Rod Wheelans FRPS MPAGB APAGB EFIAP.
The final placing were;
Winners, Wigan 10 - 73pts
2nd, St Helens - 68pts
3rd, Southport -
64pts
4th, North Cheshire - 60pts
5th, South Liverpool 54 - 54pts
6th, South Manchester - 46pts
7th, Bury - 45pts
=9th, Chorley - 43pts
=9th, Lytham St Annes - 43pts
SPS started well with none of our images going out in the first round. In
the 2nd round we lost 'Lindisfarn Boat' scoring
2 points and in the 3rd round we lost 'Fell End'
and 'Wonky Barn', each scoring 3pts. We lost
none in the 4th round but in the 5th round we lost 'Prima
Ballerina' and 'Nuthatch Calling', each
scoring 5pts. We then lost none in the 6th round but made up for it in the
7th, losing 4, 'For those in Peril', 'Alan Barnes',
'Receding tide Laig Bay' and 'Short Eared Owl'
each scoring 7pts
The 8th round came without us losing any more images, which meant we had 2
images going into the final round, The World XI. So our best two images on
the night each scoring 9pts were 'Staircase' by Keith
Suddaby FRPS MPAGB and 'Booze Snooze' by Mike
Pollitt ARPS.
The 'Man of the match' or Best image 'Trophy'was won by Roy
Rimmer of Wigan 10 with 'The Grab'
Well done to everyone involved in an excellent
night of photography.
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'The
Grab' Top
2 SPS Images; Below
right -
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Great
British Cup 2009
SPS finish as the second highest scoring L&CPU club
– again behind Wigan 10
I am very pleased to
say that our top scoring image was ‘David Weir, Gold Medallist’
with 14pts
and our second highest marked image with 13pts was ‘Dash for the line’
by Nick Hilton,
both images taken at the Paralympic World Cup event at Manchester last year.
Well done everyone involved.
All L&CPU clubs involved with final placings were as follows;
Wigan 10, 1st
Southport PS, 12th=
Oldham PS, 17th=
North Cheshire PS, 22nd=
Blackburn & Dist. CC,30th=
Wigan PS, 30th=
Chorley PS, 43rd=
Crewe PS, 44th=
South Liverpool PS, 48th=
Southern PS, 75th=
Warrington PS, 75th=
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Leyland Invitation Trophy Exhibition 2008
This exhibition is
open to all members of the following clubs and societies:
Blackburn and District CC, Chorley PS, Darwen CC , Leyland
PS
Preston PS , Ribblesdale CC , Southport PS , Wigan PS
Southport PS did very
well again in this years exhibition with over half
the images in the Exhibition coming from SPS members. We gained a 3rd place
with 'Booze Snooze' by Mike Pollitt ARPS and also had 9 prints Commended.
3rd
'Booze Snooze' by Mike Pollitt
Comm. Trevor Davenport
Comm. Mike Pollitt
Comm. Nick Hilton x2
Comm. Roy Dorkins x2
Comm. Peter Pauwels
Comm. Paul Bentley
Comm. Brian Tarr
Selected;
Allan Pyrke
Mike Pollitt
Chris Mowatt
Nick Hilton
Susan Howard
Peter Pauwels
Tony Howard
Ian McLean
Paul Bentley
Brian Tarr
Roy Dorkins
Tony Duffy
Well done everyone!
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Martin
Avery Digital Print Competition 24 November 2008
&
SPS win AGAIN!
Three
members of SPS traveled to St Helens CC with our entry for the 2008
Martin Avery Digi Print Competition between North Cheshire, St Helens,
South Liverpool, South Manchester, Southport and Slic (who forgot to enter!)
David Butler of Wigan 10 judges the 12 prints from each club. We made a good
start
faded a little in the middle and then made a great recovery to win the Trophy
once again.
Our
entry was;
01- Wooden Heart by Dianne Owen FRPS
02- Colonnade's by Nick Hilton
03- Odette by Alan Pryke
04- Staircase by Keith Suddaby FRPS MPAGB
05- Booze Snooze by Mike Pollitt ARPS
06- Watch Tower, Aushwitz by Mike Pollitt ARPS
07- Rannock Moor Alex Anderson
08- Russell Brand by Diane Thompson
09- Solitude by Nick Hilton
10- Mobbed by the French by Paul Bentley
11- Church Interior, Kracow
by Mike Pollitt ARPS
12- Gallery by Dianne Owen FRPS
Staircase and Gallery both scored 20
Nick Hilton collects
the Trophy from David Butler
The final placings were;
Southport
199
South Manchester 192
North Cheshire 187
St. Helens 186
South Liverpool 185
Slic 0
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2008
L&CPU Digital Projected Image
Knock-out Competition 22 November 2008
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clubs entered the above competition, Judged by Ray Brightman from Sheffield.
An entry of 8 images was reduced to 5 owing to the large amount of clubs entered,
so 170 images were in the competition. Our entry was;
1-
'Freestyle MX Stunt Rider' by Brian Tarr
2- 'Short Eared Owl' by Alex Anderson
3- 'Staircase' by Keith Suddaby FRPS MPAGB
4-
'Booze Snooze' by Mike Pollitt ARPS
5- 'David Weir, Gold Medalist' by Mike Pollitt
ARPS
In
the first round the judge had to eliminate 50% of the images, luckily none
of our went out!
Another half of the entry went out in the second round but we still had a
full set in. In the third
round we lost 'Booze
Snooze', then we
lost 'Freestyle
MX Stunt Rider',
'Staircase'
and
'David
Weir, Gold Medalist' in
the third round. So our final image 'Short
Eared Owl' went
through
into the final round, with the winning image being a Puffin in flight by Wigan
10.
'Short
Eared Owl' by Alex Anderson
Wigan
10 and Wigan PS tied on points for top spot with SPS 3rd, so a shoot out with
a 6th image
was won by Wigan 10. The final result was:
1st-
Wigan 10 - 33pts
2nd- Wigan PS - 23pts
3rd- Southport PS - 18pts
4th- 4 clubs tied with 14pts
5th- 2 clubs tied with 12pts
6th- Warrrington - 11pts
7th- 5 clubs tied with 10pts
8th- Crewe PS - 9pts
9th- 7 clubs tied with 8pts
10th-
7 clubs tied with 7pts
11th-
2 clubs tied with 6pts
12th-
2 clubs tied with 5pts
Well done everyone
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2008
L&CPU Annual Print, Slide and Digital Image Competitions
In the OVERALL CLUB PERFORMANCE we were joint
2nd with Bury on 252 marks to Wigan 10's winning total of 271 marks.
Chorley, Lytham and St Helens clubs were joint 3rd with 243 marks.
In MONOCHROME PRINTS, SPS were in joint 1st place
with Wigan 10 with 50 marks.
Wilmslow Guild and Nantwich were joint 2nd with 49 marks and Heswall were
3rd with 48 marks.
In GENERAL COLOUR PRINTS, SPS were in joint 2nd
place with Chorley on 51 marks to winners Wigan 10's 54 marks.
In NATURAL HISTORY PRINTS, we were joint 3rd
with Crewe on 49 marks.
Bury were 2nd with 50 marks and Wigan 10 were 1st with 53 marks.
In GENERAL DIGITAL. SPS were 2nd with 53 marks
to Wigan 10's 54 marks. St Helens,
Southern and North Cheshire were joint 3rd with 50 marks.
We didn't feature in NATURAL HISTORY DIGITAL
and did not enter any of the slide competitions.
AWARDS
1st in GENERAL COLOUR PRINTS was Dianne Owen
of SPS with 'Gallery'
2nd and 3rd were Wigan 10 workers, Maurice Jones and John Jerstice.
In MONOCHROME PRINTS, Dianne Owen was 2nd with
'Whiter Shade of Pale'
to Gwen Charnock of Wigan 10 and Christine Widdall of Oldham was 3rd.
NATURAL HISTORY PRINTS saw Alex Anderson get
a Certificate of Merit for 'Short Eared Owl', Alex also had a 12.
Richard Nutter had 3 x 12's, Mike Pollitt had a 12 and Keith Suddaby also
had a 12
In the OVERALL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR table,
( won by two Wigan 10 workers) Richard Nutter was 6th.
Richard Nutter was also joint 6th in the DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER
OF THE YEAR,
Mike Pollitt was joint 12th and no other SPS member was in the list.
In individual COLOUR PRINTS, Ian Murren had a
12, Richard Nutter also had a 12, Dianne Owen had a 13 and a 14,
Gary Parker had a 12 and Diane Thompson had a 12.
In individual MONOCHROME PRINTS, Alex Anderson
had a 12, Paul Bentley had 3 x 12's,
Dianne Owen had a 13 and Keith Suddaby had a 12.
In GENERAL DIGITAL, Paul Bentley had a 12, Cliff
Martin had a 13, Richard Nutter had a 14,
Dianne Owen had a 12 and Mike Pollitt also had a 12.
In NATURAL HISTORY DIGITAL, Richard Nutter had
a 12.
All in all, not a bad set of results for SPS. Well done everyone
and a special thank you to
Peter Pauwels and Dianne Owen
for putting our entry together.
All the results can be seen on the L&CPU website here; http://www.lcpu.org/
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May 2008 and SPS win the InterMerseyside Trophy once again
although this time we were equal on points with St Helens CC
so share the Trophy 6 months each
Southport
1002
pts
St
Helens 1002pts
SLPS 949pts
Halton 915pts
Crosby 914 pts
Maghull 846 pts
Kenington/Allerton 827 pts
I am
sure we would have won the Trophy outright had it not been for one Judge giving
Dianne's print
only 6 marks when it had scored 18,19,18,20,18,19
in other rounds! (should have gone to Specsavers!!)
We had an entry of 6 prints and 2 slides from (in running order)
PRINTS
Mike Pollitt - 18,18,16,15,19,16,20 =122
Richard Nutter - 19,19,15,20,20,19,20 =132
Dianne Owen - 18,19,18,6,20,18,19 =118
Cliff Martin - 19,20,15,17,19,17,18 =125
Nick Hilton - 18,17,14,16,16,18,17 =116
Alex Anderson - 20,18,18,20,19,19,20 =134
SLIDES
Kathryn Scorah - 17,20,15,1719,18,19 =125
Mike Pollitt - 20,19,17,17,20,19,18 =130
Well
done everyone
MP
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Who are the Champions 2008
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This year's competition was held before a packed hall on 14 January 2008. The Judge Peter Gennard gave the marks as follows; Winners-
Wigan 10 63pts A big thank you to Keith Suddaby for putting this all together and for traveling over from the North East to run it |
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Man
of the Match |
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The top scoring images from Southport PS, all in the final round, are below
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'Solitude' |
'Taken
on the line' |
'Return
to Inoccence' |
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Well
done Southport PS
in the L&CPU Print Championships, judged last Saturday
(Slide Judging next Saturday)
In
the 3 print sections SPS came 1st equal with Wigan 10
in the Natural History section in which Derek Openshaw was in 3rd
place
and runner up to Wigan 10 in the
General Colour and Monochrome sections
Natural
History Prints
=1st Southport PS 48pts
=1st Wigan 10 Foto 48pts
General
Colour Prints
1st
Wigan 10 Foto 51pts
2nd
Southport PS 49pts
Monochrome
Prints
1st
Wigan 10 Foto 57pts
2nd
Southport PS 48pts
The following SPS Members also won awards;
Alex
Anderson
Noel McQueen
Derek Openshaw
Dianne
Owen
Peter Pauwels
Kathryn Scorer
Full results can be found on the L&CPU website
Thanks
also to Gordon Jenkins and Ed Roper for getting the full results posted
on the L&CPU website the day after the Judging! MP
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