Monthly Aggregate Competition 2018-19: Results and Trophies

At the EHHPS AGM on June 13th the winners of the Monthly Aggregate competitions were announced, and trophies presented by EHHPS President Phil Dean.

Photography: Burgess Taylor

Scoring: Emmanuel

Projected Competition

Set Subject

First: Kristin Mason (accepted in her absence by Paul)
Second: Paul Mason
Third: Irena Farrell

Open

First: Barbara Dorrell
Second: John Clare
Third: Ed Farrell

Portrait

First: Shaun Hodge
Second = Martin Creedy
Second = Paul Mason

Print Competition

Set Subject

First: Rajan Adhikari
Second = Paul Mason
Second = Dennis Durack

Open

First: Amanda Wright
Second:  Emmanuel
Third = Rick Beresford
Third = Dennis Durack

Portrait

First: Shaun Hodge
Second: Paul Mason
Third: Kristin Mason

Switch Trophy

The Switch trophy is awarded to a member of the club who is not on the committee, but who is recognised as having gone above and beyond in supporting the club. It is voted on by the three previous winners of the award. This year, they decided to give the prize to David Bowater, who keeps us (and the judges) fed and watered at every meeting. Well done, and many thanks, David!

Set Subjects for 2019-2020 Announced

At the AGM on June 13th Internal Competition Secretary Emmanuel revealed the Set Subjects for the coming season.

The Set Subjects now have their own page on the EHHPS website, which will be updated with competition allocations in the near future.

Millennium Competition Winners

Congratulations to Emmanuel and Shaun, winners of this year’s Millennium competition.

Club members took part in several rounds of voting for their favourites from all the 20s in the year’s aggregate competitions, eventually narrowing it down to a winner each for printed and projected.

Well done to both !

Emmanuel’s winning print

Shaun won the projected prize

Ron Wake Selection: Amanda Wright reports

Amanda Wright was at last night’s ‘Ron Wake’ at Harrow Camera Club. This is her report:

The Ron Wake was held last night (28th May) at Harrow Camera club judged by Roger Reynolds FRPS APAGB FBPE attended by myself. In this 'all new prints’ competition each club enters 7 prints from 7 different authors and none of the images can have been used outside their club in any external CACC competition. The judge is asked to comment on each image in turn and then select his top 20 from the 49 without scoring or giving a preference. It’s always a very nail biting moment and often images get swapped in and out at the last minute, as was the case last night.

The total numbers chosen from each club were as follows

Watford 5
Harrow 5
Field End 3
Pinner 3
Northolt 2
XRR 1
EHHPS 1

The very last image of the 20 selected was an EHHPS print

I Like This Blue by Amanda Wright

Up until the final moments I thought we weren’t going to get anything in at all as he continued to walk past all of our images.

Roger is very much a nature lover, much travelled and a knowledgable bird man, however, on this occasion his choices were very mixed. He was particularly sensitive to light areas (however small) within an image and also where images were dark he wanted them brightened. He didn’t seem too fond of abstracts and more than once mentioned that images were too big within the frame, he wanted more space around the subject. His other pet hate seemed to be colour casts in both colour and black and white images and often commented on mounts being too small and the prints being too big, much preferring a smaller image in a big mount and the wrong choice of colour mount being used was mentioned once or twice also.

The Final of the competition is held Sept/October in conjunction with Harrow’s annual Exhibition where a different judge will be critiquing the 20 images and choosing his or her overall Ron Wake winner.

Sixteen EHHPS images in the PAGB Inter-Fed

The CACC has chosen sixteen images from EHHPS to represent our federation in next month’s PAGB Inter-Federation Competitions.

The 16 images are:

Portuguese Parasols by John Clare ( PDI Open)
Red Burst by Kristin Mason (PDI Open)
Sea Sand and Shadows by John Clare (PDI Open)
Hiding by Shaun Hodge (Nature PDI)
Alex by Shaun Hodge (Open Print)
Neon Cheeks by Shaun Hodge (Open Print)
Going Gaga by Shaun Hodge (Mono Print)
Thumbs Up by Dennis Durack (Mono Print)
Under Her Hat by Paul Mason (Mono Print)
It’s A Wrap by Shaun Hodge (Mono Print)
A Final Lace Up by Shaun Hodge (Mono Print)
Bathtub Burlesque By Paul Mason (Mono Print)
I Wonder by Paul Mason (Mono Print)
The Long Walk by Jenny Fenton (Mono Print)
Dizzy On The Stairs by Amanda Wright (Mono Print)
Silver Birches by Amanda Wright (Mono Print)

Competition day is Saturday June 15 in Burton on Trent - do come along and support your Club and Federation. Details were given in this News Item

PAGB InterFed Competition 2019

Amanda Wright has passed on information regarding this year’s PAGB Inter-Federation Competitions which are being hosted by Midland Counties on Saturday 15th June in Burton on Trent. Details are in the poster (below) and on the PAGB website which also has a link to book tickets.

Ron Wake Trophy Competition: Urgent call for Entries

EHHPS External Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright needs your proposed entries for the Ron Wake competition. She needs titles ideally by Monday 13th May, and with a hard deadline for submission by 17th May. Amanda needs seven ‘Virgin’ prints, never used in an external competition before (only one per author may be entered).

If you have prints for consideration, please bring them along to the next Club meeting (9th or 16th May).

More information on the Ron Wake Trophy competition - won last year by EHHPS's Shaun Hodge - on the Harrow CC website.

Photographer Sean Tucker at Northfields Camera Club on May 21st

Northfields Camera Club have invited EHHPS members to their club talk by Sean Tucker: on Tuesday 21st May.

“Sean is an inspirational photographer who is strongly focused on telling the stories of people and the places where we live and work.  Sean says that he is 'more interested in the why of photography rather than the how' and he has a distinctive voice on the creative process.

We are thrilled to have him come over to Ealing and we’re looking forward to an engaging and enjoyable evening, with lots of great photos!”

Sean will be at Northfields Camera Club, Tues 21st May at 8pm 

Northfields Community Centre,
Northcroft Road,
Ealing 
W13 9SS. 

Buy tickets on Eventbrite

The online price is £12, there is a special price for EHHPS members of £10!

Teaching Grandma to Suck Eggs

Dennis Durack recommended this article on by judge Phil Ray on “what I as a judge …. often look for in photographs submitted for club competitions”.

From on the Vale Photographic Club website.

Amanda Wright wins EHHPS Panel of Prints 2019

Image credit: Phil Dean

Judge Steve Galvin presents Amanda Wright with the Panel of Prints trophy.

The standard of entry in the 2019 EHHPS Panel of Prints was praised by judge Steve Galvin.

Congratulations to Amanda Wright whose ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) panel took first place.

Other results:

Second: Paul Mason - Alex Retro
Third: Raj - Gold Nugget
Highly Commended: Shaun Hodge - The Dance
Highly Commended: Kristin Mason - Violese
Commended: Rick Beresford - Thermal Pools
Commended: Dennis Durack - Nature’s Pattern

Invitation to Viveca Koh Workshop (11th May)

Field End PS have extended an invitation to a workshop by Viveca Koh, FRPS, who has presented to EHHPS on several occasions

(via Amanda Wright).

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CACC Championship Day: Amanda's Report

External Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright reports on the recent CACC Championship Day at Amersham:

Sunday 17th March was Championship Day held in Amersham and judged this year by Daphne Hanson DPAGB APAGB and President of EAF, Leo Rich ARPS DPAGB Hon PAGB EFIAP/g and Ken Scott ARPS both of whom are from SCF.

Fifteen clubs entered both the Print Championship and the PDI Championship resulting in 225 images in each category. Once again what the judges were actually looking for mystified many of us and this year was particularly unusual in that there was only one 15 awarded across the whole competition with the highest score being 13 in the Print Section. They fairly frequently went down to scores of 6 and 7 which is also quite unusual and something I think is a good thing as it gives a broader spectrum of marks, but only if you use the full range. Scores are out of 15 with each judge able to score between 1-5

The winners in the Print Championship were

Amersham with 176
2nd were Field End with 164
3rd were Wycombe with 162

EHHPS came a disappointing 8th with 148

EHHPS top scorers were:
Shaun Hodge with Neon Cheeks 12 and Gazing 11
Ania Taylor with Dreamy Pastels 11
8’s 9’s and 10’s bar those

In the PDI Championship we scored slightly higher 155 but came 9th, however, on this occasion we were only 10 points behind the winners as the scores were much closer. The highest score in the competition was 14.

The winners were XRR with 165
2nd Harrow with 164
and joint 3rd were Amersham and New City with 162

Our high scorers were Karen Helle with Miss Marlene 13
Shaun Hodge with Lilac Breasted Roller 12
John Clare with Sea, Sand and Shadows i 12
7, 9, 10 and 11 bar those

In the Chilterns 100 our top scorer was Shaun Hodge with It’s A Wrap 12
Kristin Mason’s Thinly Veiled, Ania Taylor’s Not So Still Still Life and Phil Dean’s Cafe Chef all scored 11
9’s and 10’s bar those

The winning image was Marcel Hug At The World Championships by Peter Milsom, another of his excellent wheelchair race in the rain shots which scored the only 15 of the day.

This year I obviously had a blonde moment and omitted two images so huge apologies to Rick Beresford with Some Geyser and John Clare with Sea, Sand and Shadows, apologies also should go to Jane Arnold-Foster for not making it clear that the single image must be chosen by the author in this competition, she also missed out as a result, sorry guys.

Let’s hope for better luck next year!

(Amanda Wright)

Detailed results are available on the CACC website

Chiltern Images Print Exhibition 2019: Entry Closes 31 March

Image Credit: John Timbrell

This annual event is organised by ImageZ Camera Club and is open for any member of a camera club affiliated to the Chilterns Association of Camera Clubs (CACC). The selected prints will be displayed in the exhibition at Queens Park Art Centre between the 6th and 17th of May, and also on the Imagez website.

More information on the Imagez website, including Web Entry, Rules, and Print Delivery.

NWFed Final: John Clare Drone image soars to further success

At the NWFed Final at Amersham (Saturday 23 February), chaired by EHHPS’s Amanda Wright, Harrow narrowly beat Field end by 1.5 points. Full scores here.

But there was glory for EHHPS in the ‘Starred’ images competition, where John Clare’s Sea Sand and Shadows took first place in the Projected section. In all, EHHPS had 8 images in the Starred competition, as previewed in this news story.

Rosebowl Round 3 Result: A Close Run Thing

The third round of the CACC Rosebowl took place at Stokenchurch on Monday (18 Feb), with EHHPS facing Leighton Buzzard, Stokenchurch and Wycombe. The Judge was Allan Thompson.

(Information and full scoresheets, courtesy of external Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright)

The final scores were very close, with EHHPS coming only one point behind the joint winners:

EHHPS 271 points (3rd)
Leighton Buzzard 272 points (1st =)
Stokenchurch 250 points (4th)
Wycombe 272 points (1st=)

EHHPS high scorers were:

The Fan by Shaun Hodge 20
Power by Paul Mason 20
Red Burst by Kristin Mason 19
Missy Marlene by Karen Helle 19
Portugese Parasols by John Clare 20
Going Gaga by Shaun Hodge 19

Qualification for the Final will not be confirmed until all third round results are in, but it looks most unlikely that EHHPS will make the top 12 - those results will appear here.

Update 2019-03-04: As was likely to be the case, we did not make the next round - full results via the link above.

Full Scoresheets:

All Wright on the Night

EHHPS External Competition Secretary Amanda Wright made it a clean sweep for the first Internal competition of the year, taking first place in both the Dell (Black and White) and Pietruski (Colour) competitions last night (7 February).

There was a very good entry, of a high standard, and excellent judging from Jay Charnock. Full results were:

Dell (Black & White):

1st Lines and Curves by Amanda Wright

2nd (Keeping it) Under her Hat by Paul Mason

3rd Beneath the Brim by Kristin Mason

Commended:

Whoosh by Ania Taylor

Café Chef by Phil Dean

Lines and Curves by Amanda Wright - Winner of the Dell Trophy

Pietruski (Colour)

1st Compton Bay by Amanda Wright

2nd Oriental Silk by Kristin Mason

3rd Play by Arun Misra

Commended:

Poppies by Ania Taylor

Triumph of Time by Arun Misra

In the Shade by Paul Mason

Compton Bay by Amanda Wright - Winner of the Pietruski Trophy

EHHPS Feature in the 'Stars' Competition at NWFed Final

The NWFed Final, between Field End and Harrow, takes place on Saturday 23rd February at Amersham. Although EHHPS were knocked out in the Semis, we feature in the competitions for ‘Starred’ imaged from the first round, with eight images - more than any other club. Details of the event here, and all of the starred images listed below:

Click the image above for a larger version

NWFed Semi Final: Result

External Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright reports:

EHHPS met Field End in the first NWFed Semi-Final, held at Harrow Camera Club on Tuesday, with EHHPS members Paul, Brian, Dennis and Emmanuel defying the inclement weather to join Amanda for the event.

The Judge for the evening was Mark Buckley-Sharp.

The PDI section ended in a draw, with both clubs scoring 162. Ealing’s top scorers were The Fan by Shaun Hodge and Missy Marlene by Karen Helle, both securing the only two 20’s permitted in this competition. Other EHHPS  top scorers were Night Watchman by Emmanuel and Clematis by Ania Taylor, both scoring 19.

Sadly the Print section which preceded was another story, with the total scores being 155 to Ealing and 164.5 to Field End. EHHPS top score was 19 which was awarded to Ania Taylor for Dreamy Pastels and we had three 18’s which were I know, I know and Mauricia by Paul Mason and Poppies by Ania Taylor.

So the dream of a place in the final was not to be,  but at least EHHPS made it to the Semi-Final this year - something we haven’t achieved for some time.

Field End go through to the final and will battle against either Harrow or Wycombe who have their Semi-Final on Thursday at Watford.

Rosebowl Round Two: EHHPS Come First

EHHPS fortunes in the Rosebowl improved greatly as we topped our group in Round Two:
(Information from External Competitions Secretary Amanda Wright)

Round Two of the CACC Rosebowl competition took place on Tuesday 15th January. EHHPS faced Chesham, Marlow and Stoke Poges, in a match hosted by Chesham.

Scores were:

EHHPS 264
Chesham 262
Marlow 247
Stoke Poges 245

Top scorers for EHHPS were:

Power by Paul Mason 20
Red Burst by Kristin Mason 19
Night Watchman by Emmanuel 19
Sea, Sun and Shadows by John Clare 18
Mauricia by Paul Mason 18
Portugese Parasols by John Clare 18

The Judge was Alan Colgrave

Full Scoresheets

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Current standings and Fixtures

Success for Ania Taylor at National Federation of Poultry Clubs Championship Show

Just before Christmas, Ania visited the National Federation of Poultry Clubs Championship Show.  She didn't enter a single bird but still walked away with Best in Show - for her Photography. In addition to the First Place, Ania’s images also took two Third Places: