Image: ‘Sunrise’ by Andrey Zhukov
Once again, Jenny has made the pages of Outdoor Photography Magazine - Issue 304. Our congratulations to Jenny.
Jennifer Fenton
Burnham Beeches in Hertfordshire. The ICM shot makes an interesting background to the silhouette of the bare trees in the foreground.
Olympus OM-D E-MI MkIll with lens at 13mm,ISO 64, 1/320sec at f/3.2
The CACC Championship Day took place on Sunday 17th March in Amersham.
Amanda Wright’s report will be published here once all of the results are available.
Amanda Wright has just passed on the Rosebowl standings after the three Rounds have been completed, and the good news is: EHHPS is in the Final.
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The Final takes place as part of the CACC Rosebowl Day on 21st of April in Amersham - details in the poster below:
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The final of the NWFed competition, together with the Starred Images Competition took place on Saturday 24th February, hosted by Watford. Here is Amanda Wright’s report:
I’m fresh back from Watford where Kris, Paul and I saw the final of the North-West Fed. As the organiser, Terri Adcock, had been away until recently many of us didn’t know who the two finalist clubs were - Amersham and Croxley - until this morning when we printed the scoresheet.
Each club supplied 9 of their finest prints and 9 of their finest PDI’s and it is fair to say that judge Tim Morland from Kingston CC, had quite a tough task on his hands as the standard was indeed extremely high.
Tim held back 8 of the 18 prints, awarding three 20’s, all of which were from Amersham ,with final Print Comp scores being:
Amersham 164.5
Croxley 149
He went on to hold back 7 of the 18 PDI’s, awarding two 20’s this time, both being from Croxley. The final PDI scores were:
Amersham 152
Croxley 158
Total combined score:
Amersham 316
Croxley 307
So, fairly close.
After the coffee break The starred images were judged by Kevin Day
There were 24 PDI’s and Prints too, judged in two separate competitions. Much to Kevin’s relief, no scores were required - just a First Place and two Highly commended.
In the print competition Kevin held 5 back, with First Place going to David Manning of Leighton Buzzard with one of my favourite images of the year Tin Man Alley.
Both Highly commended images were from Watford: On The Naughty Step by Sam Jenkins and The Right Time Of Day by Mike Brankin.
We only had one print in which was Annie Hackett’s Winskill Tree but sadly it wasn’t held back for final selection.
In the PDI competition we had a bit more of a chance with 4 starred images:
A Moment Of Peace by Annie Hackett
An Anxious Wait by Mike Lloyd
Homage to It by Emmanuel
Eastern Eyes by Dennis Durack
Kevin held back 7 of the 24 images with Homage To It being the only chosen image from EHHPS.
Final placings were
First Place Samual by Sanjay Mistry from Harrow another of my favourite images of the year
Highly Commended Homage To It by Emmanuel, very well done Em, it’s a stunner!
Highly Commended Finnish Wolf in Cotton Grass at Dawn by Chris D’Netto from Imagez
Should you be interested I’m sure these images will be available to see on the individual club’s own websites but should be available on the NWFed website when it’s updated.
On Thursday 15th Feb. EHHPS hosted a third round Rosebowl fixture as a hybrid, with EHHPS in the hall at the Brentham, and judge Micki on Zoom. The other clubs were welcome to join us in person or via zoom. Here is Amanda Wright’s report:
Last night EHHPS played hosts to the mighty Amersham and Watford in our 3rd and final round of the Rosebowl Competition. Very ably and expertly judged by Micki Aston on Zoom. I was, it has to be said, expecting total annihilation but the final outcome surprised us all I think.
As I mentioned last night we now have to sit and wait until all the other clubs (there were 27 competing this year in total) have finished their rounds and Kathy has totalled up all the scores. The last of the rounds, 3 of them, will be held on 27th Feb so we should know if EHHPS have made it to the top 12 clubs by early March. We have come 1st, 2nd and 3rd in our rounds but have done well with starred images so it all hinges on how the other clubs have fared.
The turnout, it has to said was shocking. Only 11 EHHPS members in the hall and a measly 4 on Zoom which would have included the two other Competition Secretaries!
Our top scorers last night were
Homage To It by Emmanuel scoring 20 and being awarded one of the two allocated stars
Lady Of The Manor by Paul Mason scoring 19
Scoring 18 were:
Sea Fret by Kristin Mason
After The Show by Dennis Durack
A Moment Of Peace by Annie Hackett
Christmas Shopping by Jenny Fenton
On Balance by Shaun Hodge
Very well done guys!!
Totals for the night were:
Amersham 1st Place 264
Watford 2nd Place 262
EHHPS 3rd Place 260
Despite coming 3rd I was actually thrilled that we were a mere 4 points behind the winners Amersham!! A very close run thing.
Four of our normally very high scoring images scored 16 which was a bit of a shock but it’s all about the images on the night as Micki said and the overall standard was exceptional. I was proud.
(Amanda Wright)
For background on the Rosebowl, please look at the CACC website
Rosebowl Day for 2024 is Sunday 24th April and includes the Final.
In what has become a habit, Jenny Fenton has once again been published in Outdoor Photography Magazine. Her comments from the magazine are below the image.
Taken on a very windy day in Cornwall, the bright sunlight brought about the gorgeous contrast in the colours from the cliff edge to the water. By using ICM, I was able to draw attention to the movement of the waves.
Olympus OM-1 with 70mm lens, ISO 200, 1 sec at f/22, 3-stop ND
On Tues 16th Jan we had our second round of the Rosebowl, excellently hosted as a hybrid session by Northfields CC and against Stoke Poges PS and Croxley CC. Our original judge Paul Burwood was unable to judge the competition for us and Kathy Chantler, Chair of the CACC no less, very kindly undertook the role. There was an extremely disappointing turnout with only 13 people online and 6 members in physical attendance at NCC which did make me query once again whether there was much support for our longstanding large external competitions.
Anyway to the night…..
It has to be said I was in a mild state of panic when our first image out received a 14, however I fairly quickly realised that all was not lost as Kathy’s scores were pretty low overall. In fact she awarded 10 x 14’s and 13 x 15’s which equates to over 38% of all images (60 in total) scoring a pretty low mark in my book, given this is a Rosebowl competition and clubs are therefore submitting their very best images.
15 images scored 16 and 13 images scored 17 with 8 images being held back, two from each club and scores being quite a close run thing it was anyone’s game, but I’m delighted to be able to tell you that EHHPS won!! I don’t think I’ve been able to say that for a long time, so thank you Kathy!
Final Scores
EHHPS 246
Stoke Poges 243
Croxley 240
Northfields CC 236
You can see from these scores just how close it was and I have no idea how we achieved this with no 18’s or 19’s to our name!
Ealing’s top scorers with the only two 20’s of the night were:
A Moment of Peace by Annie Hackett
Lady Of The Manor by Paul Mason
These two were also automatically awarded the two stars, HUGE congratulations to you both.
On 15th February EHHPS are hosting the 3rd and final round against CACC giants Amersham and Watford. Gulp!!!
On Thursday evening (December 7th) I took our last 5 printed images to the third and final round of the NWFed hosted this time by Watford.
Watford already had a comfortable 10 point lead but Pinner and ourselves were both neck and neck on 386 points each.
Our judge for the evening was the well known Micki Aston who seemed on good form, despite getting over a bad cold and we started the evening with the prints, 5 from each club, 15 in total. The standard was extremely high and her comments were mostly very fair. She started off by reminding us that as the standard was technically very good it would be down to how each image made her feel that would be the dominating factor in her scoring.
We started well with our first print out On The Ledge by Paul Mason being held back. Our second image out didn’t fare so well and I have to say on this occasion I completely disagreed with Micki’s comments on Cut Off by Annie Hackett. Micki is well known for her love of black and white photography, having started in the darkroom herself, but on this occasion she didn’t take into account the time of day that the image had been taken, describing it as ‘muddy' and wanting a greater range of tones and more brightness in the darker areas. It scored 15. Maybe next time we’ll reflect the time of day in the title and call it Cut Off At Dusk or something like that to help guide the judge. Micki didn’t seem to take the Wonderful storytelling into account at all, just the technical aspect which was very disappointing and such a shame.
On The Ledge went on to attain a 20, well done Paul.
Cut Off by Annie Hackett 15
Skinningrove At Dawn by Nick Barber 16
Time For A Dip by Mike Lloyd 18
Derelict Corn Mill by Jenny Fenton 17
Interestingly Micki disliked the colours or tones of something in all our prints apart from Paul's. In Skinngrove At Dawn it was the blue toned harbour wall - she said it should have been grey (it ’s dawn). In Time For A Dip it was the pink bikini - she insisted it should have been a natural tone to blend in with the environment and Derelict Corn Mill reminded her of a filter called Tobacco she used to use and had done to death so her low score reflected a very personal element. In short, if the colour palette or tones were not realistic for a daytime shot or something went against the norm, it was marked down.
Watford had two images held back, both scoring 20 and both were awarded the two allocated stars. Sadly we came last in the print section.
Scores at half time were
WAT 91
PIN 92
EHH 86
At this point as Pinner were winning they thought it might be a good time to leave haha!!
In the second half, the PDI’s, Micki held back 5 images, 2 from Watford and 3 from EHHPS, all of which scored 20 and 2 of ours were awarded the stars!
Emmanuel’s Homage To IT received much praise from Micki, despite confessing her fear of clowns, describing it as perfectly malevolent, she loved it. She enjoyed the simplicity and quietness of Sea Fret by Kris and Annie’s A Moment Of Peace drew a gasp of enjoyment.
Homage To IT by Emmanuel 20 and a Star
A Moment Of Peace by Annie Hackett 20 and a Star
Sea Fret by Kristin Mason 20
Watching Mother With Prey by John Alexander 16
Epitome Of Fun by Jenny Fenton 16
PDI Scores were
WAT 93
EHH 92
PIN 88
Overall Scores then after all 3 rounds
PRINTS PDI’s TOTAL
1st WAT 291 1st EHH 290 1st WAT 580
2nd PIN 281 2nd WAT 289. 2nd PIN 566
3rd EHH 274 3rd PIN 285 3rd EHH 564
A great win for us in the PDI’s even beating Watford! Such a shame we were beaten by Pinner by just 2 points but no surprises that Watford won the competition being the far bigger club and with some very talented photographers with a good range of genres to draw from.
EHHPS did do very well again with our starred images across the competition so very well done to:
Annie Hackett - Winskill Tree Print and A Moment Of Peace PDI
Dennis Durack - Eastern Eyes PDI
Mike Lloyd - An Anxious Wait PDI
Emmanuel - Homage To IT PDI
Amanda Wright
Jenny Fenton has been published in Outdoor Photography issue 299
Author: Jenny Fenton
One very cold afternoon in Buckinghamshire, strong gusts of wind almost sent me home. I stayed and the sun came out, creating beautiful autumn colours. After taking a swirling ICM photograph of the sky, I then overlaid it with an in-camera shot of the trees looking upwards with my wideangle lens.
Olympus OM-D E-MI MkIII with 7-14mm lens at 14mm, ISO 64, I/320sec at f/6.3, in-camera double exposure
With the North West Fed in full swing, our second round match was hosted by us last night (23rd November) with four members from Pinner CC and Terri Adcock from Watford CC in attendance (Watford also meet on a Thursday night). The competition was judged by Mark Buckley-Sharp with Judy his wife also with him.
We started the evening off with the print section, five prints from each club so only 15 in total. They all seemed to really come to life under our light box as opposed to on the dimly lit stand where Mark initially saw them and must have made his decisions as he scored his two 20’s (not a prerequisite that there only be two in this competition) before seeing the final five images under the light box. Not a usual practice and I couldn’t help wonder if this might have left some authors feeling a little upset. Most of his comments were fair and appropriate although I felt although there were several oddities in his conclusions.
Despite this, Ealing fared remarkably well and it’s not very often I get to say that we beat Watford overall!!
We also did very well with 20’s and therefore the stars. (For anyone who isn’t aware in this competition two images in the print section and two images in the PDI section in each match must be awarded a star. These starred images will then go on to be entered in a starred image final for both print and PDI on Finals Day.)
Results:
Prints
EHH 88
PIN 86
WAT 88
Top scoring print images were
Winskill Tree by Annie Hackett EHH - 20 and a star
Courting Razorbills by Natalie Levy PIN - 20 and a star
Other Ealing top scorers were
60’s Vibes by Kris Mason - 19
Lady Of The Manor by Paul Mason 18
PDI’s
EHH 90
PIN 87
Wat 87
Top Scoring PDI Images were
An Anxious Wait by Mike Lloyd EHH - 20 and a star
Ball Watching by Simon Peters WAT - 20 and a star
Other Ealing top scorers were
Foggy Beach Walkies by Jenny Fenton 19
Turban Style by Kris Mason 18
Total scores on the night
EHH 178
WAT 175
PIN 173
The cumulative scores so far from Matches 1 and 2 are:
WAT 396
EHH 386
PIN 386
I’m pretty sure that 10 point lead from Watford is going to be pretty hard to make up, so the battle is looking to be for second place at the moment.
(Amanda Wright)
Last night (Monday 30th October) saw the first round of this season’s Rosebowl Competition.
As a reminder, the Rosebowl is an all PDI competition with 3 rounds where clubs submit 15 images each and compete against different clubs in each round. All rounds are held on Zoom but can be hybrid.
Clubs are awarded points according to their position in each of the three rounds, these points are totalled once all rounds have been completed and the top 12 clubs in the competition are invited to compete in the Rosebowl Final. In each round two starred images are awarded by the judge and these starred images also go into a separate Starred Image Final.
Woodley CC were our hosts last night and skilfully navigated the competition as a hybrid with Woodley members in the hall and our judge Julia Cleaver and approximately 30 club members on Zoom.
With Zoom competitions it is essential that the judge receives the images prior to the competition (without club and author details) so that he/she can evaluate the images without having to worry about unstable internet connections on the night. In this case it appeared that Julia had also pre-scored the images to help speed things along.
Her observations were mostly excellent with, as always the case in external competitions, one or two puzzling comments and suggestions.
Ealing’s top scorers with 20 were:
Catherine Wheel by Paul Mason
On Balance by Shaun Hodge which also scored one of the two awarded stars.
We didn’t get any 19’s but the following images scored 18:
Eastern Eyes by Dennis Durack
First Light by Shaun Hodge
The Green Rock by Amanda Wright
Yohoi by Paul Mason
Tokyo By Night by Jenny Fenton
With 33% of the images scoring 17 and 25% scoring 18 and 11 images held back to be scored at the end it was hard to call who the winners were going to be and final scores were not surprisingly incredibly close:
1st Marlow CC 265
2nd EHHPS 264
3rd Woodley PC 262
4th Kidlington CCPG 254
The two starred images on the night were
On Balance by Shaun Hodge EHHPS
Dancing In Winter’s Light by Robin Dodd of Marlow
Well done all.
Our next round will be hosted by Northfields CC on 16th January where we will also do battle with Stoke Poges and Croxley.
(Amanda Wright)
On Monday evening (16th October) Paul, Kris, Dennis and myself took ourselves up to Northwood Hills for the first round of the North West Federation external competition facing Pinner (who were hosting) and the formidable Watford. The competition, 6 prints from each club and 6 PDI’s from each club, was judged by Paul Burwood, well known to us at EHHPS. As he mentioned at the start, these rounds are always tricky to judge because clubs put in their very best images. The standard was indeed high.
I thought we might be in for a rough ride when the first two prints were held back and Ealing’s first image was third up so the chances of 3 being held back in a row were slim despite it being Paul Mason’s fabulous abstract nude, Catherine Wheel'. It did manage an 18 though, matched by Shaun Hodge’s very classy On Balance both of which were our highest score in the print section.
Sadly I had to leave early at half time so didn’t see the scoring of the PDI’s but Paul and Kris kindly took over. Seven images were held back in the second half one of them being Dennis’s wonderful Eastern Eyes which went on to be awarded a 20 and one of the two stars for this section. Tokyo Nights and Sea Spray by Jenny Fenton and Nature’s Nymph by Dennis all achieved 18 so well done to you both.
Total scores then were
PRINTS
Watford 112
Pinner 103
EHHPS 100
PDI’s
Pinner 110
Watford 109
EHHPS 108
FINAL
1st Watford 221
2nd Pinner 213
3rd EHHPS 208
The second round is on Thursday 23rd November when we will be hosting. Titles need to be handed in to the organisers by Thursday 9th Nov
The third round follows close on the heels of the second! The titles need to be handed in by 23rd November with the competition hosted by Watford on 7th December so please get images sent to me in good time.
(Amanda Wright)
Full details of the competition are given on the NorthWest Fed website.
Judging for Ron Wake Memorial Trophy - an inter Club Print competition featuring EHHPS, Field End PS, Harrow CC, Pinner CC and Watford CC - took place on Monday September 25th at the new home of hosts Harrow CC. EHHPS members Annie, Dennis, Kristin and Paul made the short trip to the event.
Unfortunately, gridlocked traffic meant that Field End were unable to deliver their prints.
Judge Kevin Day praised the very high standard across all entries, and explained the subtle differences which enabled him to separate the prints. Kevin held back seven prints, finally choosing First, Second and Third, and four Highly Commended.
EHHPS Successes:
Mike Lloyd was awarded a Highly Commended for his image The Devil Within
Paul Mason was awarded First Place for Catherine Wheel, and holds the Ron Wake Memorial Trophy for one year.
Of the other competing clubs, Watford CC featured heavily in Kevin’s selection of the Best on the night.
First Place: Catherine Wheel - Author: PauL Mason
HIGHLY COMMENDED. The Devil Within - Author Mike Lloyd
Congratulations to Jenny Fenton on another publication in Outdoor Photography with her image of a stormy Night in Blackpool.
This was taken on a very stormy evening in Blackpool. The North Pier was getting a battering!
iPhone II Pro, 3sec
Another publication for Jenny Fenton in Outdoor Photography Issue 297
Author: Jenny Fenton
“Strolling through Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire, the light suddenly created a magical image. I visualised fairy-like figures dancing through the trees. To capture what I wanted for this shot, 1 slightly overexposed the image and used multiple exposures.”
Olympus E-MI III with 40-150mm lens at somm, ISO 500, I/10 osec at f/13, handheld
Congratulations to Jenny Fenton, whose image (below) was Runner up in this month’s Outdoor Photography Magazine (Issue 286).
Author: Jenny Fenton
“Wisteria and allium at RHS Wisley in Surrey make for a stunning display. The horticultural team deserve thanks for nudging the beautiful purple cultivar 'kokuryu' to bloom for the first time in five years, alongside the white-flowered 'kimono'.
Olympus E-MI MkIlI with 40-150mm lens at 117mm, ISO 1000, 1/250sec at f/13”
Saturday the 8th of July saw the Summer Events season really hit its stride as Martin Creedy held the 12th of his legendary Wine and Cheese tastings.
There were 12 of us around the table as Martin presented his selection of six South African reds:
Boschendal Appellation Series Elgin Pinot Noir 2018
Anwilka 2017
Boschendal Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Elephant Tree Malbec 2021
Fire & Foal Merlot 2021
The Swashbuckler Pinotage 2021
Followed by the Cheeses, accompanied by a selection of Martin’s excellent home-produced Sourdough bread.
Image: Martin Creedy
Morbier
Kaltbach
Old Amsterdam
Pecorino Fresco
Smoked Red Fox
St Agur
Le Rustique
Montasio
Colston Bassett
Jarlesberg Reserve
Cabrales
Blue d'Auvergne
Stinking Bishop
Moliterno al tartufo
Image: Martin Creedy
At the end of the tasting, EHHPS President surprised Martin with the presentation of this year’s Switch Trophy for his many years of Wine and Cheese tastings for the Club.
Image: Kristin
Following the AGM on 15 June, Internal Competition Secretary Emmanuel announced the results of the Monthly Aggregate Competitions, which take place over the full season. There are eight competitions in each category. An author’s 7th and 8th lowest scores are discarded, and the remaining scores (out of 20) totalled for a maximum score of 120 points.
Full results will be available to members through the weekly Newsletter.
Trophies will be presented at the Summer Barbeque event.
Print Open
First : Kristin Mason (114 pts)
Second: Emmanuel (111 pts)
Third: Rick Beresford (104 pts)
Print Set Subject
First: Paul Mason (118 pts)
Second: Kristin Mason (113 pts)
Third: Emmanuel (108 pts)
Print Portrait
First : Paul Mason (120 pts)
Second: Kristin Mason (112 pts)
Third: Mike Lloyd (56 pts)
Projected Open
First : Jenny Fenton (119 pts)
Second Equal: John Alexander ( 116 pts)
Second equal: Rick Beresford (114 pts)
Projected Set Subject
First : Paul Mason (120 pts)
Second: Kristin Mason (115 pts)
Third: Rick Beresford: (110 pts)
Projected Portrait
First: Kristin Mason (117 pts)
Second : Paul Mason (114 pts)
Third : Dennis Durack (95 pts)
Switch Trophy
This year’s Switch Trophy will be announced later.
Amanda Wright (PAGB Inter-Federation Officer for CACC) reports:
Sadly it was one of the worst years yet for the CACC, although it was to be expected I guess as so many of our clubs were reporting a decline in print numbers since the pandemic.
The competition was judged on Saturday 3rd June with scores out of 15 by:
Jenny Hibbert MPAGB EFIAP/g AWPF
Roger Parry ARPS MPAGB EFIAP HonPAGB
Nick Hilton DPAGB EFIAP/b BPE5
Below are the overall results, and individual results for EHHPS
EHHPS
Eastern Eyes by Dennis Durack 12
Going Up by Mike Lloyd 12
Through The Round Window by Mike Lloyd 11
Homage To McCurry by Paul Mason 11
Overboard by Amanda Wright 11
Derelict Corn Mill by Jenny Fenton 11
Boules by Dennis Durack11
Memories Of Her by Jane Arnold-Forster 11
Takamine (Colour) by Paul Mason 11
The Blue Lake by Jenny Fenton 10
Entangled by Jenny Fenton 10
I Was Trying To Sleep by Kris Mason 10
Leopard With Monkey Prey by Shaun Hodge 9
CACC
Our top scores in the MONO Comp was 14 for Yesterday’s News by Steve Bailey of Croxley and 13 for Self Employed by Tim Tate of Harpenden. Both these prints were selected for the Nationwide touring exhibition.
In the COLOUR OPEN Competition our top score was 12 of which we had 10 only one was selected for the exhibition, The Boxer by Lloyd Moore of Watford.
In The NATURAL HISTORY we achieved a few more slightly higher scores 2 x 14’s Feeding The Young by Terri Adcock from Watford and Beewolf Wasp With Honeybee Prey by Simon Jenkins also from Watford. Both these were selected for the exhibition.
We also scored 4 x 13’s in this category.
Sadly the CACC didn’t feature in the awards lists.
The winning images can be found on PAGB.org.uk website under Events-Galleries
The list of Set Subjects for the 2023-2024 season was announced by Emmanuel at the recent AGM and is given below. It also appears here. There is no significance to the order. The Programme summary for the 2023-2024 season, will include all Set Subjects in date order and show which are Print or PDI, together with judges when known. The ‘Events and Meetings’ page, will be updated appropriately to reflect that information.
Ealing and Hampshire House Photographic Society, founded in 1892, we are one of the oldest surviving photographic societies in the world.
Some recent Images from our club competitions
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