Winning Images from the Millennium Competition 2021-22

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Thursday June 9th saw the annual Millennium Competition when members vote for the best images which scored 20 in this season’s competitions.

This year there was a Tie in the Print Competition with the trophy being shared between Rick Beresford with Escheresque and Kristin Mason with Grand Central 17:30.

Escheresque By Rick Beresford

Grand Central 17:30 by Kristin Mason

The Projected Competition was won by Jenny Fenton with her image “The Derelict Corn Mill”

The Derelict Corn Mill by Jenny Fenton

Runner up in the Projected competition was John Alexander with his striking image of Wildebeest.

EHHPS vs Highcliffe & Infinity: Amanda Wright Reports

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On Wednesday 11th May EHHPS had our annual friendly competition with Highcliffe and Infinity which was unusual on several levels this year:

Due to a lack of members able to attend in person we managed to persuade H&I to host on Zoom where 9 of us were able to watch.

Our judge for the evening was Louis Rumis, a previous but lapsed member of H&I who had technical issues and had to drive to a fellow member’s house in order to complete the task.

It would seem EHHPS presented him with something of a challenge as he couldn’t understand some of our images, techniques or subjects but despite this we came first……just.

Scoring was pretty close with Ealing scoring four of the six top marks of 10 and three 9.5’s

10’s we’re awarded to

Shaun Hodge for With A Swish
Paul Mason for Your Move
Emmanuel for Curl and Swirl
Kris Mason for Duo Cosmos


9.5’s went to

Phil Dean for Vertical Shard
Shaun Hodge for Earth Mother
John Alexander for Leap of Faith

Well done all.

(Amanda Wright)

'Match a Digi' 2022 Success: Amanda Wright's Report

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Five EHHPS members travelled to Pinner for Monday’s ‘Match a Digi’ competition. Rick Beresford and Amanda Wright ran things for EHHPS, whilst Dennis Durack and Kristin and Paul Mason gave heckling support.

Here is Amanda’s report on a fun and successful evening:

On Monday night Pinner hosted our first Match-a-digi event for at least 2 years, with Field End making up the trio.

Our judge for the evening was the very brave Micki Aston, although I’m not sure she was fully aware of what she was letting herself in for as this competition is well known for the chance to heckle the judge!

As usual there was joviality and good humour, made even more amusing by the fact that everyone had forgotten how to use the rather complicated scoresheet, Micki’s insistence on making the rules up as she went along and the fact that she wasn’t in fact wearing her brand new hearing aid!

The quality of images was unusually high for this event but I’m pleased to say that despite all clubs having a different final score the general consensus was that EHHPS won, hooray!

CACC Championships Day 2022: Report

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Despite having put in a huge amount of preparatory work for this event, External Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright was not able to be present on the day.

Nevertheless, Dennis Durack, Kristin Mason and Paul Mason, made the journey to the new Chiltern Lifestyle Centre in Amersham for a full day’s feast of Photography. What follows is Kristin’s interim report, which will be updated later with further detail:

The Judges were:

  • Barbie Lindsay MPAGB EFIAP/s FBPE (EAF)

  • Russell Lindsay MPAGB EFIAP FBPE (EAF)

  • Pat Couder CPAGB BPE1 QPSA (SPA)

The three judges each scored out of five in all three competitions, making 15 the top possible mark for each image.

Chilterns 100

There were 218 PDI entries in this year’s competition of individually-submitted images. Scores ranged from 6-15.

EHHPS’s Rick Beresford scored the top mark of 15 for his Exploding Mushrooms; one of only 6 images that scored this highly. A tense period followed as the judges deliberated - and then deliberated some more.
Finally the results were announced and Rick won the Bronze medal.
The judges praised the natural history feel of the image and also the texture added with the explosion effect which, together with the subtle colouring of the background elevated it above the usual.
Congratulations, Rick!

Andy Sands of XRR won the overall Best Image trophy with his superb macro image Fly with Early Morning Dew.

Update: The full results of the Chilterns 100 are now on the CACC website.

Alternatively, you may download the results as a .pdf, organised by Club, here


The Print Championship

13 Clubs from across the CACC submitted 195 images in this competition

The Print Championship was won by Watford.
Runners up were Maidenhead and Amersham
EHHPS came a creditable 6th in the Print Championship.

Martin Patten of Watford won the best image award with his excellent portrait Brown Eyed Girl

Ealing’s high scorers were:

Shaun Hodge with Marine Marie which scored 13

Paul Mason who scored 15 for Downward Curve and a 14 for A Brush with a Cactus.

Update: The full results of the Championships are now on the CACC Website

The PDI Championship

Out of a mammoth 270 images, from 18 clubs, 19 images were reviewed again at the end and Best image was deservedly awarded to Fly with Early Morning Dew by Andy Sands.

The PDI Championship was won by Watford

Runners up were Oxford PS and Maidenhead

EHHPS came 11th out of 18 clubs in this section.
For EHHPS, Rick Beresford once again scored a 15 for Exploding Mushrooms.

Update: The full results of the Championships are now on the CACC Website

Exploding Mushrooms by Rick Beresford

NWFed Final: Amanda Wright Reports

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The final of the NWFed took place on Saturday 19th February, with Amersham taking on Watford.

We had two judges Pat Couder who judged the starred images from across the competition and Sue Green who judged the final both from the Southern Federation.

There were 22 Starred (and nominated starred) prints (PDI’s) where EHHPS were able to submit Isolation by Nigel Glasgow and Torridon, Scottish Highlands by Dennis Durack. Sadly neither were selected in the final 3

  • Winner - Brown Eyes by Martin Patten from Watford

  • H/C - Tackling New Zealands Ardie Savea by Julie Mullins from Amersham

  • H/C - Fish On by Don Bennett from Watford

Out of the 21 Starred and nominated projected images again EHHPS had two entries, Leap Of Faith by John Alexander and She Comes In Colour Everywhere by Jacqui Sinnatt and once again we missed out on the top 3 spots.

  • Winner - Mountain Hare by Brian Ridgley from Amersham

  • H/C - The Housekeeper by Steve Bailley from Croxley

  • H/C - Acorn Weevils Mating by Andy Sands from XRR

In the final print section (18 images) the judge awarded 3 x 20’s with result

  • Amersham 160

  • Watford 165

In the final PDI section (18 images) the judge seems to struggle somewhat and awarded 8 x 20’s and 4 x 19’s

  • Amersham 170

  • Watford 171.5

Total Result

  • 1st Watford 336.5

  • Amersham 330


    (Amanda Wright)

The Eyes Have it: Dennis Durack

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The Eyes Have it

Author: Dennis Durack

Congratulations to Dennis Durack whose image The Eyes Have It features in the RPS London Region 2022 Print Exhibition.
See the EHHPS Facebook Group for more information.

Dennis also features in the RPS London Region Annual Exhibition and Gala Weekend 20 APRIL to 24 APRIL.

Bookings not necessary but information regarding any changes, new activities etc. will be sent to those who sign up here

Rosebowl Round 3 - Amanda Wright's Report and Results

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On Thursday 3rd October EHHPS hosted on Zoom our final round of the Rosebowl where we were drawn against Windsor PS, Field End and Kidlngton CC. The judge was Rojer Weightman from Stoke Poges who had an extremely difficult task on his hands with the superb quality of images submitted and he certainly seemed to find the evening hard work.


Rojer used a very narrow band scoring between 16 - 20 with only 3 20’s and 4 19’s which given the nature of the competition (the best of the best) and 60 images in total was quite unusual. However Rojer clearly wasn’t quite so impressed with 73% of the images scoring 17 or less, awarding 20 16’s and 24 17’s.

The 20’s were

  • Peonies by Linda Webb from Kidlington

  • The Unmade Bed by Alan Cross from Windsor (also awarded a star)

  • Into The Light by Neil Mountford also from Windsor (also awarded a star)


The four highest scorers from Ealing thankfully were

  • Shaping Up by Paul Mason scoring 19

  • Feeling Blue by Kris Mason scoring 18

  • Hawthorn Of The Minions by Shaun Hodge scoring 18

  • Ludlow Lane by Jenny Fenton scoring 18

With the score band being so narrow it was hardly surprising that all 4 clubs were separated only by 1 point

  • 1st Windsor 258

  • 2nd EHHPS 257

  • 3rd Field End 256

  • 4th Kidlington 255

As EHHPS didn’t do so well in the first and second rounds we were never going to make the top 12 clubs and go forward to the final as the scoring is 5,3,2, and 1 in each round. We came joint 3rd in our first round (1.5) and last in the 2nd(1) and 2nd (3) in this one giving us 5.5 in total. We needed at least a 10 or more for the final.

(Amanda Wright)

Nigel Glasgow Published in Digital Camera World Magazine

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Congratulations to EHHPS member Nigel Glasgow who has been published in Digital Camera World Magazine, sharing his tips and tricks for capturing the essence of live music.

Some of Nigel’s images used in the article are shown below.

More of Nigel’s work can be found on his website.

Your Club needs your Images

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Amanda Wrights updates us on upcoming competitions which need your best images:

Here are the future external competitions in which we will be exhibiting. As I mentioned they may seem like a long way off but trust me the deadlines come round fast and I need to have my final choices in the bag before the deadlines.

ROSEBOWL R3 - THURSDAY 3rd FEB

EHHPS will be hosting this PDI competition via Zoom against Windsor, Field End and Kidlington. Rick Beresford will be collating the images (deadline 20/1/22) and managing projection. I have provisionally selected my 15 images but will hold off with final decision until a little nearer the time.

CACC CHAMPIONSHIP DAY - SUNDAY 13TH MARCH AT AMERSHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE (Tickets £5)

- Inter-Club Print Championship - Entries by 27th FEB (to CACC website) and physical prints are delivered to venue by 12.30 pm 13/3/22
15 prints required with max 3 per author

- Inter-Club Projected Championship - Entries by 27th FEB (to CACC website)
15 PDI images required max 3 per author

- Chilterns 100
1 image per author, chosen by author and sent to me - Entries by 27th FEB (to CACC website)

INTIMATE LANDSCAPES CACC INTER-CLUB COMPETITION - THURSDAY 24th MARCH - TRING OR ZOOM TBC

- Entries by 3rd March (to Tring)
6 Images, 5 from different authors. The 6th (tie-breaking image) may be from one of these authors or a different one.

PDI images must be 1920 px on longest side and be no more than 5MB

ROSEBOWL DAY - SUNDAY 10TH APRIL - ZOOM AM and PM Sessions

- Phone Photography Competition - Entries by 27th March (to CACC website)
1 image per author - no limit on numbers - no internal selection

- Rosebowl Stars Competition - Entries by 27th march (to CACC website)

- Rosebowl Final - Entries by 27th March (to CACC website)
The top 12 performing clubs from the 3 previous rounds compete

CHILTERNS IMAGEX PRINT EXHIBITION - QUEENS PARK ARK CENTRE, AYLESBURY - MAY 2022 TBC

- Open to all CACC clubs, individual entry. Entries can be submitted between Feb and March. For further details contact Chenxi Ni (nichenxi1983@gmail.com) or see Imagez website www.imagezcameraclub.co.uk/chiltern-images

NB - Where I have stated (Entries by ____ to CACC website) this is the final day I can upload the images to the CACC competition entry system. Please ensure all your images are sent to me well before this date for competition consideration/collation.

Rosebowl Round 2: Amanda Wright's Report and results

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On 7th December EHHPS had our second round of the Rosebowl Competition this time drawn against Banbury CC, Leighton Buzzard PS and the hosts Imagez CC. In this competition, historically a purely PDI Competition so the segue to Zoom is easy with each club submitting 15 images.

The judge for the evening was Chris Drury who had been given the images prior to the competition and had them on a separate screen during the judging process which was just as well because the stormy conditions that night were certainly playing havoc with my internet connection. He certainly didn’t waffle on and indeed seemed to be a man of few but interesting words.

I knew it was going to be a tough night when our first 10 images scored 16 or 17. Luckily the Masons came to our rescue with Your Move by Paul scored 19 and Duo Cosmos by Kris scored 20. Our only other top score of 18 was by Mike Lloyd with Three of A Kind. So very well done you three.

There were only 8 19’s in total and 5 20’s, the lowest score being 13 awarded to a Banbury image and with 16 16’s and 20 17’s making up the overwhelming majority of scores.


One of the stars was awarded to Imagez and the other to Leighton Buzzard and we were annoyingly pipped into 4th place by just 1 point which makes a big difference in this competition.

Final scores were

1st Imagez 264
2nd Leighton Buzzard 261
3rd Banbury 257
4th EHHPS 256

We are hosting the 3rd round on 3rd Feb next year and have been drawn against Windsor, Field End and Kidlington.

NWFed Round 3: Amanda Wright's Report and Results

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On Tuesday 30th November, Harrow Camera Club hosted, via Zoom, the third and final round of the NWFed. Our judge was Paul Burwood who admirably sifted through both PDI and PDI/Print skilfully scoring images from a myriad of different genres.

The first (prints) round was a bit of a nail biter as all three clubs finished on 89 points which due to the lead Park Street had over us and Harrow from the two previous rounds meant it was highly unlikely that either of us would catch them up so it became a battle for second place. In the end Park Street came 3rd with 86 in the PDI round, EHHPS came 2nd with 88 and Harrow romped ahead with 94

So in the third round:


Harrow won with 183
EHHPS came 2nd with 177
Park Street 3rd with 175

Our top scorers in prints were


Isolation by Nigel Glasgow 20 and a STAR
Mike Lloyd’s High Priestess and Paul Mason’s In Shape both scored 18



Our top scorers in PDI’s were


Shaun Hodge with Sculpture 19
Kristin Mason with Mademoiselle D’Azure 19

Overall scores from all 3 rounds then look like this

1st Place Park Street 570
2nd Place Harrow 564
3rd Place EHHPS 557

Despite disappointingly coming last we did very well with our Starred images and congratulations go to:


John Alexander with Leap Of Faith
Jacqui Sinnatt with She Comes In Colours Everywhere
Dennis Durack with Torridon, Scottish Highlands
Nigel Glasgow with Isolation

These photographers will have another chance in the “Starred images competition” on Final's Day

We wish Park Street good luck in their Semi-Final round.


NWFed Round 1: Amanda Wright's Report and Results

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This event was recorded, and EHHPS members will receive a link to the recording in the Newsletter published on 14 November, so if you don’t wish to see the result yet, click away now…

On Thursday evening (11 November) EHHPS competed in this season's first round of the NWFed with Harrow Camera club and hosts Park Street. Our judge for the evening was Colin Southgate who has often been kind in the past to our creative photographic style, however this time it seems sadly we were no match for the other two teams.

Usually this competition comprises a Print section and a PDI section, however in these Covid times the whole event is PDI but still run in two sections with each club submitting 6 images in each section in this 1st round.

The first section was 'prints' and EHHPS had a shockingly poor result scoring 2 x 15's, a 16 and 3 x 17's (97 total) I can't remember the last time our highest score was a 17!

Our top scorers however were:

Shaun Hodge with Evie,
Sally Mason with Shard at Sunset
Amanda Wright with Startling Starling.

The PDI section picked up a little with a 16, a 17, 3 x 18's and a 20* sadly though not high enough scores and once again we came last out of the three clubs.

Our top scorers in this section, with 18 were :

Pyramid Pointe by Paul Mason
Tasty by Shaun Hodge
Your Move also by Paul Mason.

John Alexander did extremely well scoring 20 and achieving one of the two stars awarded with his fabulous wildebeest migration image Leap of Faith.

Total Scores then were

1st Park Street (217)
2nd Harrow (209)
3rd EHHPS (204)

Round 2 is being hosted by EHHPS on 25th November when our judge will be Lloyd Moore, fingers crossed.

(Amanda Wright)

Rosebowl Round 1: Amanda Wright's Report

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Amersham PS hosted the first round of The Rosebowl for us on Monday (25th October) via Zoom, judged by the Chairman of the CACC himself, Martin Patten. Also drawn in this round were Harpenden PS and Wantage CC so we knew it was going to be tricky.

Martin certainly explained what it was he didn’t like about the images, blue/grey/desaturated tones didn’t do well, unsmiling models were ‘unreadable’ and artistic images didn’t seem to float his boat either although he did give some good tips on cropping in a few images and used a broad range of scores from 14-20.

The images that scored highly and his two stars were ones that resonated with him, a crowded b&w long exposure shot amongst the clock art installation at Canary Wharf is similar to one he has taken and a rugby tackle of Itoje taken from the sidelines, he’s a fan. Other 20’s were A Momentous Day, a fabulous newsstand shot in b&w with poignant ‘Killer Virus, 2 Cases in Britain‘ headlines and a fabulous Mountain Hare in snow.

Ealing’s top score was 19 awarded to Paul Mason’s In Shape, a lovely high key art nude. Kristin Mason scored 18 for Mademoiselle D’Azure as did Shaun Hodge for The Body.

Final placings were

1st Amersham 269
2nd Harpenden 259
=3rd EHHPS 247
=3rd Wantage 247

Round 2 is on 7th Dec, hosted by Imagez and with Leighton Buzzard and Banbury.

Fingers Crossed 🤞

Amanda

2021 Ron Wake Trophy: Amanda Wright Reports

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The 2021 Ron Wake was held on Zoom last night (Tuesday 14 September), with a slightly different format to the norm. Usually twenty images of the total are chosen by one judge and those twenty are judged by another judge at a later date who then picks his/her winner.

Six clubs took part: Watford, Pinner, XRR, Harrow (the hosts), EHHPS and Field End and 46 prints were entered.

Last night our judge was the much revered Chris Palmer (enter here every accolade you can think of), who gave a carefully considered and in my opinion accurate and fair critique of all the images, holding back 9 which each then received an award.

40 people came to watch but sadly the EHHPS support was noticeably lacking with just me and I think Aasem in attendance.

EHHPS did pretty well with two images of our 8 submissions held back:

She Comes In Colours Everywhere by Jacqui Sinnatt received a “Commended”

Downward Curve by Paul Mason was placed Third

- so very well done to you both.

The overall winner was a well deserved and thought provoking monochrome print called Loneliness by Omer Esit of Watford.

Full results here (.pdf).

Summer Event: Photo Walk to Petersham Nurseries: Phil Dean Reports

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On Saturday 14th August a group of us visited Petersham Nurseries. Several glasshouses display plants alongside distressed wooden cabinets, vintage chinaware and glassware grouped by colour. Amanda took advantage of the retail therapy opportunity before we retired to the far corner seating area for coffee and cake. We enjoyed face to face conversation, so rare these days. Burgess, Phil and Mike (Roscoe) extended the morning with a stroll along the river to Richmond where we sat outside the White Cross pub and had a healthy lunch of salmon salad. An enjoyable outing and a few potential images for next season’s competitions.

(Phil Dean)

Summer Event: Wine and Cheese Tasting with Martin Creedy

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This years Annual wine tasting was attended by 13 and covered the region of Bordeaux in France and due to social distancing rules still in force was held in the garden.

Wines

We had six wines ranging in price from £10.79 to £25.00 at the discounted 12 mixed bottle case price and one surprise wine which was Waitrose's Blueprint Claret Reserve at £6.49 a bottle

The six wines were:

• Château Hartes (Bordeaux)

• Château Toudenac (Bordeaux Superieur)

• Château Bois de Galet

• Château Pontet Barrail Cru Bourgeois (Médoc)

• Château La Clarière (Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux)

• L’Épiphanie de Saint-Émilion

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As usual favourites of the evening were mixed but the surprise wine from Waitrose was fantastic value for money comparing very well with wines costing twice the price.

Cheeses

This year proved to be a record for the cheese selection with 17 different cheeses on offer accompanied by homemade sourdough bread and some Waitrose baguette. The cheeses were:

• Le Rustique Camembert

• French Brie

• Long Clawson Stilton

• Morbier

• Jarlsberg

• Reblochon

• Highmoor

• Compte

• Wensleydale

• Keen's Cheddar

• Lincolnshire Poacher

• Brighton Blue

• Bleu D'Averngne

• Per Las Blue

• Bath Blue

• Barkham Blue

• Tomme De Vache a la Truffe

The extensive cheese selection

We may also have picked up a couple of new club members as we were joined by a couple who googled Wine Evenings and somehow came across our event!

Next year will be Italy, a region we have yet to try and enjoy

Martin Creedy

A Photowalk Around St. Paul's and The Barbican: Rick Beresford Reports

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On the evening of July 1st, five club members, Amanda, Aasem, Andrey, Dennis and Rick, went on a photowalk around St. Paul's and The Barbican. Starting from St. Paul's station, the group walked to the shopping centre at 1, New Change. After taking a few architectural shots in and from the shopping centre, the group were amazed to find that the centre's roof terrace was open, despite clear indications on their website that it was closed. So, that was the next stop as this terrace provides excellent views of St. Paul's Cathedral and many other famous London landmarks such as the Shard and the London Eye. The light direction was not ideal but despite this, a good many photos were taken from here. After descending from the roof terrace, the party proceeded to take architectural and street photos as they walked up Wood Street towards The Barbican. The Barbican Centre itself then provided many further opportunities for street and architectural shots. The evening finished with a very pleasant meal on the terrace of The Bonfire restaurant overlooking the Barbican Water Gardens

Rick Beresford

A Selection of Rick’s images from the walk (Slideshow)

Annual Awards Evening: Results and Trophies 2020-2021

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Following the AGM on 10 June, President Burgess Taylor, in conjunction with 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.

Print Open

Print Open

First : Jenny Fenton (116 pts)
Second: Karina Limburg (114 pts)
Third: Rick Beresford (111 pts)

Print Set Subject

Print Set Subject

First: Kristin Mason (118 pts)
Second: Paul Mason (116 pts
Third: Rick Beresford (114 pts)

Print Portrait

Print Portrait

First : Paul Mason (120 pts)
Second: Kristin Mason (117 pts)
Third: Mike Lloyd (89 pts)

Projected Open

Projected Open

First Equal: John Alexander (114 pts)
First Equal: Sally Mason (114 pts)
Third: Dennis Durack (112 pts)

Projected Set Subject

Projected Set Subject

First Equal: Rick Beresford (115 pts)
First Equal: Paul Mason (115 pts)
Third: Kristin Mason: (112 pts)

Projected Portrait

Projected Portrait

First: Paul Mason (120 pts)
Second : Martin Creedy (115 pts)
Third: Kristin Mason (114 pts)

Switch Trophy

Switch Trophy

An announcement regarding the award of the Annual Switch Trophy has been held over.

PAGB Inter-Federation Competition: Results and Amanda Wright's Report

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The PAGB Inter Federation Competition was judged on Sunday 6th June. Here is Amanda Wright’s report:

The CACC didn’t fare too well in the Open, coming 13th, with A Momentous Day by Steve Collins LRPS BPE1 of Harpenden PS achieving our highest score of 14, and being awarded a PAGB Ribbon.

I am however delighted to say that we did come 5th overall in the Nature Competition.

It was a win for the Ladies in this category with Coyote In The Snow by Julia Wainwright FRPS MPAGB BPE2 of Harrow CC scoring 15 and achieving a Silver medal from Rod Wheelans.

Bobcat In Snow by Karina Limburg from EHHPS achieved a PAGB ribbon

Fox Fight by Terri Adcock LRPS CPAGB AFIAP P of Watford also achieved a PAGB ribbon, with all images scoring top marks of 15.

Congratulations to you all, top scoring images and federation positions can be found here.

Karina Limburg’s Ribbon-winning ‘Bobcat in the Snow’

Karina Limburg’s Ribbon-winning ‘Bobcat in the Snow’

Amanda Wright