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Excellent club performance at L&CPU today

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Well done to all of those whose images were selected to represent the club at todays L&CPU competition. Today was DPI’s only and out of 42 clubs entering Macc came 5th. We came in the Top 10 of all three sections (Colour, Mono & nature). It was a great day out and an excellent result as this is our first foray into Federation level competition for many a year.

The three judges reviewed 992 images from 42 clubs with the final scores as follows :

1st Chorley 323 points,   2nd Wigan 10 311 points,      3rd Alsager 288,

4th Poulton 283,      5th Macclesfield & North Cheshire 280,    6th Southport

7th Evolve 278,       8th Leyland 275,     9th Ribblesdale 274,

10th Mid Cheshire 270,     11th Crewe 269,     12th Warrington 269

13th Preston 267,     14th Bury 267    15th Nelson 267      16th Sth Man 266

17th Ormskirk 264   18th Nth Fylde 263   19th Morecambe 256

20th Rochdale 256………..

Tomorrow is the print competition.

Open Print Competition Results

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Many thanks to our panel of judges, David Tolliday, Andrew Wilson and Chris Aggersbury, for doing such a professional job last night.  The top 10 are as follows: In equal first place with 10 points each are Anthony Gosling, Pamela Carr and Len Claydon.  Other scorers are: Anthony again with 7 points, Steve Gresty with 2 images gaining 6 points and one in tenth place, Kevin Blake scores 4, Kevin Lomax 3 and Len Claydon with another 2 points.

With 47 entries there was a strong field, with many people entering prints for the first time. Hopefully, this will mean that we can re-introduce more prints to the internal competitions next season. Thanks to all who took the trouble to enter.

The leader board is now as follows:

Anthony Gosling 28; Steve Gresty 26; Kevin Blake 19; Conor Molloy 16; Paul Scott 15; David Tolliday 13; Louise Acton and  Len Claydon on 12;  and Pamela Carr 10; Kevin Lomax 7; Vince Spaks 6;  Malcolm Brunt 4 and Irene Lea 1.

Club claim 3rd place in Round 2 of Camera Club of the Year

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A great achievement by our club photographers who contributed to the Round 2 selection which had a theme of “Brrr….its cold!” We finished that round in third place. Well done everyone we are making good progress. Images for Round 3 are now required the theme being “Patterns and Textures” .

 

3rd place finish in Round 2 CCOY

3rd place finish in Round 2 CCOY

Camera Club of the Year Themes Announced

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T he last themes and their closing dates for the Camera Club of the Year have been announced by Absolute Photo. If you go to their website you can sign up (it’s free) and you’ll be able to see the entries from previous rounds. You can also read an on-line up to date version of Photography News. (That’s the newspaper that is distributed at club meetings).

The final themes are Round 4: Movement, and Round 5: The power of Nature. All themes are open now so I’m sure that Conor will be asking for your pics anytime now.

To sign up go to their website at Absolute Photo