Rosebowl Round 3: Results and Report

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In this third round competition for the hotly contested Rosebowl trophy, EHHPS were matched against Pinner CC, Stokenchurch CC and Wycombe PS. The match, at Pinner, was well attended, with EHHPS being represented by Dennis Durack and Paul Mason.

The Judge for the evening was Mark Buckley-Sharp.

After 60 PDI images, Wycombe emerged as clear winners on 271 points. EHHPS and Pinner shared second place on 261 points, with Stokenchurch only one point behind on 260.

High scorers for Ealing were:

Shaun Hodge with Marine Marie (20) and Barn Dance (18)
Kristin Mason with Out of the Grey (19)
Paul Mason with A Brush with a Cactus (18) and Beach Hut (18)
Amanda Wright with Escape Route (18)

The full results sheet is here.

Follow the links below for:

The results from EHHPS’s First Round match
The results from EHHP’s Second Round match
The full fixture list
Current Results and Standings

(External links may not have been updated yet).

Rosebowl Round 2 Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on the Second round match in the Rosebowl Trophy, hosted by EHHPS on Thursday 5th December:

Last night Ealing hosted our Round 2 of the Rosebowl Competition against clubs New City and Marlow. The 45 digital images were judged by Alan Colegrave who more than once mentioned that he was struggling to think of things to say as the standard of images was so high that he couldn’t fault them. That said he did manage to provide us with a broad range of marks.

The final scores were:

EHHPS 1st with 264
New City 2nd with 259
Marlow 3rd with 247

Top scorers with 20 points were:

Peace Pagoda Dawn by Simon Raynor from New City
A Brush With A Cactus by Paul Mason EHHPS also taking one of the stars
Positive Thinking by Shaun Hodge, EHHPS
Out Of The Grey by Kristin Mason, EHHPS taking the other star

The full Mark Sheet is here

Follow the links below for:

The results from EHHPS’s First Round match
The full fixture list
Current Results and Standings

The XRR Visions Results are In

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A small group of us ventured north to Watford on Wednesday 20th November for the XRR Visions competition.

EHHPS entered a team comprising Shaun Hodge, Dennis Durack and John Clare. In addition, Phil Dean, Kristin Mason and Paul Mason entered as individuals only.

184 pre-judged images from 92 photographers were shown in two consecutive slideshows, followed by a live critique of the 92 tie-break images by guest judge, David Steel DPAGB, from the East Anglian Federation.

All results are published here
(Sort by clicking on column headers, click an image title to preview the image).

Click here to view all images

Unfortunately, as a team EHHPS came well down the results table. The high scoring images were predominantly Wildlife and Landscape. It seemed that the Judge was seeking something more in ‘People’ images.

EHHPS highest scoring image was Marie by Shaun Hodge - scoring 18

Further information on the competition

PM / Results based on information supplied by Bill Cooper of XRR

NWFed Match A3: Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on the match which took place on Monday 4th November at Amersham

Amersham played hosts to the third and final round of Group A’s North West Fed with Hemel Hempstead and EHHPS on Monday evening which was judged by Martin Patten LRPS CPAGB BPE*

The scores were mostly very disappointing once again for Ealing and we came 3rd despite achieving 3 20’s and bagging 3 of the 4 allocated stars.

Third round scores on the night were

PRINTS

Amersham 93
Ealing 86
Hemel 85

PDIs

Amersham 93
Hemel 89
Ealing 86

Ealing’s top scorers were:

Out of The Grey by Kristin Mason (print): 20 and a star
Hippy Life by Shaun Hodge (PDI): 20 and a star
Skirting Fantasy by Paul Mason (PDI) 20 and a star

So with those totals added to the previous two rounds the overall final scores were

1st Amersham 591
2nd Ealing 561
3rd Hemel 555

Amersham will therefore go forward to the Semi Final against the winning club from Group C on 21st January.

The Final will be on Saturday 22nd Feb 2020 where our starred images will be judged again for a chance to win best print or best PDI of the competition.

Rosebowl First Round results are in

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Amanda Wright has passed on the results of the first round of the Rosebowl, held on 30th October at Leighton Buzzard. The judge was Colin Southgate.

Result:

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EHHPS scored no 20s, but 19s were awarded to:

Against the Grey - Kristin Mason
Beach Hut - Paul Mason
A Brush with a Cactus - Paul Mason
Pure Joy - Sandrine Thomas

Full results are here:

We host our next match against New City and Marlow on 5th December.


NWFed Match A2: Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on Monday’s (21 October) match which for the second time saw EHHPS facing Hemel Hempstead and Amersham:

Hemel Hempstead hosted round 2 of the NW Fed last night judged by Chris Sargeant and with Judy and Mark Buckley-Sharp present.

In the prints round EHHPS came a disappointing 3rd scoring 83, Hemel Hempstead 2nd with 87 and Amersham 1st with 92.

The judging appeared to be somewhat random with traditional views and details missed, the lowest score was 16 with two 20’s and both the stars awarded to Amersham. Ealing could only muster a top score of 18 for Paul Mason’s A Brush With A Cactus but this by no means represented the quality of the images EHHPS submitted. Personally I thought the criticisms were half hearted.

In the PDI’s again the lowest competition score was a 16 but EHHPS fared much better with Hemel scoring 88 and both Amersham and EHHPS scoring 90. Once again two 20’s and both stars were awarded to Amersham. EHHPS scored three 19’s which were In The Bell Tower by Paul Mason, Marine by Shaun Hodge and Before Sunrise by Dennis Durack.


The final round will be held at Amersham in two weeks time on Monday 4th November but it’s not looking hopeful.

Photoentry now accepting your images for Projected #2

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Projected competition #2 is coming up on Thursday 24th, and we are now accepting images via Photoentry and not email.

We’ve had quite a few entries already, so don’t delay as the closing date is on Monday 21st.

All members should have their logins by now (check your spam folder), so please see the instructions on our competition pages. There is also a link to a video of the process.

Good luck!

XRR Visions 2019: Entries close 30th October

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A number of EHHPS members have previously entered the XRR Visions competition. Bill Cooper LRPS AFIAP, Secretary, XRR Photographic Society writes regarding this year’s competition:

“VISIONS is a unique projected image competition for individual members of PAGB affiliated clubs. Clubs can also compete for the club trophy by nominating three entrants to represent them (please note that the selection of images should be made by the individual entrants).

The closing date for entries is Wednesday, 30th October, and the final live judging for Visions will be on Wednesday, 20th November at the Stanborough Centre. Judging all entries this year will be David Steel DPAGB of Cambridge CC.”.

Click on the poster below enter and to view the Rules.

NWFed First Round Result

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Amanda Wright reports on Thursday’s (October 3rd) opener against Hemel and Amersham:

Thursday night saw the External Competitions new season kick off at The Brentham Club when EHHPS played host to Amersham and Hemel Hempstead PS judged by Paul Burwood LRPS.

As usual some of the scores raised a few eyebrows but his comments were generally fair, the standard was unsurprisingly pretty high and the rounds were surprisingly close.

Print Scores

Hemel 107
Ealing 109
Amersham 112

There were four 20’s awarded:

Black Mount by Dennis Durack (EHHPS)
Skateboard Action by Jim Turner (Hemel) also a Star
Morning Wait by Felicity Holden (Amersham) also a Star
Tackling Jamie George by Julie Mullings

EHHPS entries scoring 19 in the Print section were:

Try To See It My Way by Sally Mason
The Wasp by Shaun Hodge

PDI Scores

Hemel 99
Ealing 107
Amersham 111

There were three 20’s awarded

Blue Umbrella In The Rain by James McCracken (Hemel) also a Star
Broadgate Staircases by Andrew Bungard (Amersham) also a Star
The Aviator by Brian Gough (Amersham)

EHHPS entries scoring 19 in the PDI section were:

The Lookout by Shaun Hodge
Beach Hut by Paul Mason
Now We Are 3 by John Clare

So to summarise round one

Amersham came 1st with 223
EHHPS 2nd with 216
Hemel were 3rd with 206


We still have a chance!!!

The next Group ‘A’ match is on October 21st at Hemel

Important Notice: Did you purchase a Print from the EHHPS BEAT Exhibition?

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EHHPS’s successful first venture into Ealing BEAT is now ended, and we now focus on delivering prints to all who purchased images during the exhibition at Questors.

Unfortunately there was glitch affecting the contact details of some purchasers from the first weekend. If you made such a purchase, please contact Jane Arnold-Forster or Amanda Wright (click on a name to email) so they can organise delivery as soon as possible.

Thank you once again for visiting, and for purchasing our work.

Ron Wake Memorial Trophy heads to Watford

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The final of the Ron Wake Memorial Trophy opened Harrow Camera Club’s season on Tuesday evening (3rd September). The winning image was “This is Me”, as six shot composite by Charlotte Dwyer of Watford CC.

Before turning his attention to the final, judge Kevin Day gave a fascinating talk on a documentary shoot he had undertaken, following a group of aid workers helping refugees in Greece.

Kevin’s judging was, as ever, entertaining and perceptive. Although EHHPS’s Shaun Hodge won last year’s competition, this time EHHPS had only a single image, Amanda Wright’s I Like this Blue which made it through to the final twenty. I found myself wondering if Kevin had judged the selection round, whether perhaps we may have seen more of our work in the final.

Paul Mason

Invitations from Harpenden PS

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EHHPS Secretary Jenny Fenton has received invitations from Harpenden PS for three paid events from prominent speakers at their Club:

Guy Edwards who is a professional landscape, wildlife and travel photographer – Tuesday 3rd Sept.

Martin Evening who is an acknowledged expert on Photoshop – Tuesday 17th Sept.

Damien Demolder who is a well known street photographer – Tuesday 5th Nov.

Please note these are all ‘private’ events and are only open to paid-up members of HPS or those with tickets bought through Eventbrite.

There will be 20 tickets available for each speaker at £12 each on a first come first served basis. The tickets can only be purchased through Eventbrite by clicking on the linked names above.

All three events start at 8.00pm for 2 hours and will be held at:

The Harpenden Trust Centre
90 Southdown Rd
Harpenden
AL5 1PS

There is parking on the road or close by