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

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

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

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

Wine and Cheese 2021.MOV from EHHPS on Vimeo.

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

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

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.

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Print Open

Print Open

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

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Print Set Subject

Print Set Subject

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

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Print Portrait

Print Portrait

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

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Projected Open

Projected Open

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

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Projected Set Subject

Projected Set Subject

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

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Projected Portrait

Projected Portrait

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

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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

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’

Amanda Wright

Millennium Winners

The 3rd of June saw our annual Millennium Print and PDI competitions. All the pictures scoring 20 are voted on over several rounds by the club members, to find out which were their favourites of the year. For the second year running, rather than running round a meeting room with strips of paper, votes were cast using Pollunit and Zoom online.

First up were the PDIs. The winner this year was The Tower Bridge at Sunset by Aasem Al-Sikab. Many congratulations to Aasem, particularly as he is a new member to the club. The image was extremely popular, and was clearly ahead through all the rounds of voting. Runners up were Tuscan Farmhouse and Rock Formation, both by Dennis Durack, A Platform for Elegance by Paul Mason and Waves Of... by Emmanuel.

The Tower Bridge at Sunset

Tuscan Farmhouse

Rock Formation

A Platform for Elegance

Waves Of…

In the Prints, the winner was Bobcat in the Snow by another new member, Karina Limburg. Congratulations again, us long term members are going to have to up our game! Runners up were Kings Cross Flats by Rick Beresford and Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque by Jacqui Sinnatt, another recent recruit.

Bobcat in the Snow

Kings Cross Flats

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Inspiration to us all, and this time next year, we hope we can vote in person once again!

PAGB Masters of Print Catalogue

The PAGB Masters of Print Catalogue is available free to all entrants, and at a substantial discount to others - but you must register. Offer ends 29 June. Click on the poster to order.

EHHPS vs Highcliffe and Infinity: Amanda Wright's Report

On Wednesday 12th May, EHHPS met Highcliffe & Infinity in a match over Zoom. This is the report from External Competition Secretary, Amanda Wright.

So once again Covid 19 put paid to a much loved and missed trip down to the New Forest for our annual derby with Highcliffe and Infinity, although Chairman Clive told us we were better off not having made the trip down as the weather had been atrocious, it was far better being in sunny London, haha!

Our judge for the evening was Maria Leekblade who had a lovely demeanour finding something positive in every image but also giving good critique where required to all 40 entries and she obviously had impeccable taste as EHHPS won with a final score of 173 to EHHPS and 162 to Highcliffe and Infinity.

They score out of 10 down South which is always an initial shock and scores on the night ranged from 6.5 - 10

Maria held back 10 images with 8 being ours, always a good sign and we were awarded:

Seven 9’s

One 9.5: No Tissue, No Problem by Karina Limburg

and three 10’s:

Arctic Fox by Karina Limburg
Queen of Spades by Mike Lloyd
Waiting by Paul Mason

Arctic Fox was awarded 1st Place

Queen of Spades 2nd

Lone Windmill by Highcliffe was 3rd

Hopefully we will get to return in person next year and we finally have control over this pesky pandemic..

(Amanda Wright)

Rosebowl Day: Amanda Wright reports with Results and Videos

Amanda Wright, whose image Faded Tulips received a Highly Commended award in the Phone Photography competition, reports on a Full Day at the Rosebowl:

As per Rosebowl Day usual the final competition was held on a glorious sunny day.
The morning kicked off early at 10.00am with the all new Phone Photography competition judged by Gordon Brown from Winchester with about 60 people in attendance.

Out of the 126 images entered 37 were critiqued, 15 held back with seven given Highly Commendeds. The overall winner in 1st place was Pelicans At Sunset by Martin Patten. Much like the Chilterns 100 only one image per photographer was permitted and the individual authors were responsible for choosing their image.

One of the seven images to receive Highly Commendeds was Faded Tulips by myself.

The complete Phone competition can be viewed as a video here
The full results of the Phone Competition are here

After a short break Gordon Brown went on to judge the Rosebowl Starred images. The overall standard in this event was unsurprisingly very high and several people remarked how pleased they were not to have to judge such a high standard competition.

There were 43 images in total, 12 were held back and four awarded Highly Commendeds.
The first place image was Nature’s Mercy by Jim Turner of Hemel Hempstead.

The full entry list and awards for the Stars competition are here

The Rosebowl Final resumed after a lunch break at 2pm and was judged by Marilyn Robert’s, President of The Yorkshire Photographic Union with 74 people in attendance. The Final is contested between the top 12 clubs from the three previous rounds, sadly EHHPS were not amongst them this year.

There were 88 images in total which all received a critique and the judge held back 15 images almost all of which were Natural History. Six 20’s were awarded and it was an incredibly close run final this year.

1st Place was Watford 145
2nd Place Amersham 144
3rd Place Oxford 142
4th Place Woodley 140

Full results from the Rosebowl Final are here

'This is Ealing' Photographic Exhibition - Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery

Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery re-opens on May 27th with a Photography Exhibition. Submissions from Ealing residents are invited. Click on the poster below for further information.

Click on the poster for further information

PAGB Masters of Print Competition Closes 15 April

This year’s PAGB Masters of Print Competition closes on 15 April. Click on the poster below to go to the PAGB website which includes the Rules , Timetable and Entry details.

Mike Lloyd takes Best Image award in the CACC Championship Day PDI Competition

And was was further success for EHHPS members, as Amanda Wright reports:

The first and hopefully last Zoom held Championship Day is now concluded and was slightly changed from our normal format.

The three judges were Judith Parry DPAGB AFIAP HonPAGB and Roger Parry ARPS MPAGB EFIAP HonPAGB from Mid Counties Photographic Federation of which Roger is Vice President and Tim Morland ARPS from Surrey Photographic Association.

Scoring this year was between 4 -10 (max 30) instead of 2 - 5 (max 15) and instead of our seeing every image with no critique the judges were asked to each select 15 favourite images which they could then critique on in both The Championship Day PDI Competition and The Chilterns 100 Competition.

This year 20 clubs entered 221 images from their members in The Chilterns 100 and 14 clubs each entered 15 (210) images.

In the Chilterns 100

Judith Parry gave special mention to:

• Amur Leopard by John Alexander which scored 23 and

• Waiting by Paul Mason which scored 27 and won a PAGB Ribbon award.

Roger Parry gave special mention to:

• Shasta Curve by Kris Mason which scored 24

Tim Morland gave special mention to:

• Battersea Power Station At Night by Dennis Durack which scored 23

The Bronze Medal went to Cell Count by Chris Drew from Woodley scoring 28
The Silver Medal went to At Rest by John Station also from Woodley scoring 28
The Gold Medal went to Coyote In The Snow by Julia Wainwright from Harrow scoring 29


In The Championship Day PDI Open Competition

Judith Parry gave special mention to:

• En Pointe In Pink by Dennis Durack scoring 23

Roger Parry gave special mention to:

• Against The Grey by Kris Mason scoring 23

Tim Morland gave special mention to:

• Bobcat In Snow by Karina Limburg scoring 27

The overall Best Image and Winner of the Competition was Queen of Spades by our very own Mike Lloyd scoring 29 points and agreed winner by all 3 judges who each gave a thoroughly glowing critique of this outstanding image, well done Mike, very well deserved.

(Amanda Wright)

The CACC have made images and scores from the competitions available via YouTube videos:

• View all images for the Chilterns Hundred Members Exhibition video here

• View all images for the Projected Championship here

Below: Mike Lloyd’s winning image: Queen of Spades

Mike Lloyd’s winning image: Queen of Spades

Below - Paul Mason’s Waiting: Judge’s Ribbon, Chilterns 100

Waiting by Paul Mason: Judge’s Ribbon, Chilterns 100 2021

One that Got Away

Rick Beresford’s entry to the Chilterns 100, Exploding Mushrooms, was unfortunately overlooked when our images were submitted to the Chilterns 100. One to watch in future competitions, and well worthy of exposure here.

Exploding Mushrooms by Rick Beresford

Rosebowl Round 3: Results and Amanda Wright's Report

It was the third and final round of the Rosebowl PDI competition last night (Monday 1st February), hosted by Pinner and against Imagez , Croxley CC and EHHPS. The round was judged by a very poorly sounding Kevin Day who nevertheless stoically soldiered on.

The evening was attended by Paul and Kris, Dennis and myself.

The recurring theme for the evening seemed to be about the difficulties of judging an open competition where you are judging wildlife against landscapes against portraits etc and I think Kevin was often conflicted, holding back an impressive 19 images out of the 60 entries. He handed out 7 20’s and 11 19’s with final scores:-

4th Croxley: 255
3rd EHHPS: 269
2nd Pinner: 270
1st Imagez: 284

The writing was on the wall as to the eventual outcome, as 11 of the 19 held back images were from Imagez. EHHPS frustratingly, narrowly missed second place by a meagre 2 points!

EHHPS top scorers for the evening with 19 were

Arctic Fox by Karina Limburg
The Bathers by Jacqui Sinnatt
(thank you newbies)

Then we had a whole raft of 18’s:

En Pointe In Pink by Dennis Durack
Duo Form by Kris Mason
Storm Dennis by Jenny Fenton
No Tissue, No Problem by Karina Limburg
Shards by Paul Mason
Bobcat In Snow by Karina Limburg
Father And Daughter by Adil Pastakia
Bee Versus Crow by Emmanuel
Waiting by Paul Mason
Looking For Artemis by Nigel Bunclark

Well done all.

We are currently in 8th position on the fixtures leaderboard and I fear this final round may well have knocked us out of the top 12 qualifying for the Final on Sunday 18th April, I’ll keep you posted.

(Amanda Wright)

CACC Competitions Revisions and New PhonePhotography Competition

Sunday 21st March 2021: Championship day

• PDI only - no Print Competition. Closing Date: 1 March 2021

• Chilterns 100: will be prejudged and the top 45-50 scoring images will be commented on live with the other entries shown via online Video. Closing Date: 1 March 2021 but EHHPS members should submit their entries (one per author) to Amanda Wright by 22 February.

• The Championship final will also be prejudged. and the top scoring images from each club will be commented on live as will the award winners. The other entries and score will be shown via online video.

Sunday 18th April 2021: Rosebowl Final

The Rosebowl final will comprise a 2-part day and will be delivered via zoom with judging of each part by different judges.

• AM - Mobile Phone competition and Rosebowl Starred images individual final

• PM - Rosebowl final

The PhonePhotography Exhibition is a new competition for individual members to enter one image originated in a phone camera. Entries (one per author) to be submitted through our External Competition Secretary, Amanda Wright. The CACC closing date is 29 March 2021 but EHHPS members should submit their entries to Amanda by 22 March.

Please note that all of the above competitions will take place online - timing and access details to be advised.

Further information on the CACC website including the amended calendar

Rosebowl Round 2: Amanda Wright's Report and Results

On Tuesday 15th December Maidenhead played host to our second round of the Rosebowl judged for us by the very popular Chris Palmer. Chris’s judging style has always been a favourite of mine as he uses a very broad vocabulary, expertly talking around a picture with its good points and failings but never in a dull or repetitive way. I know Chris’s own work is mostly natural elements and landscapes but always with a creative eye for light, form and above all composition. He often abstracts his subject so I was delighted when I discovered he was to be the judge for our forthcoming round. Having judged for all of the other clubs several times in the past I was also quietly confident that we would do well. Sadly once again though, despite all this, EHHPS were once again thwarted and beaten to third place, just.

The final score was:

1st Maidenhead 263
2nd Leighton Buzzard 239
3rd EHHPS 238
4th Northfields 227

Chris gave a wide range of scores from 14 and awarded four 20’s and three 19’s and with 52 of the 60 images scoring 17 or less, high scores seemed somewhat elusive.

Our top scorers on the night were

Karina Limburg with Arctic Fox: 20 and a Star

Paul Mason’s Rebel Rocker scored the only 18 of the night

Well done to both.

Pinner will be hosting our third and final round on Monday 1st Feb, titles and images will have to be in at least two weeks before and I need 15 images, some of those already used can be used again but if you have anything you’d like to be considered please send them off to me 1600 x 1200

We’ll be against Imagez and Croxley too.

Amanda Wright

Results - click on the summary below for the detailed scoresheet

Click above for the full scoresheet (.pdf)

NorthWest Fed Round A3: Amanda Wright's Report and Results

On Thursday 3rd December it was all to play for in the final round of the NWFed. EHHPS were trailing Watford by 9 points, a not impossible sum to catch up on. Sadly however, it wasn’t to be. The judge Paul Burwood had a tricky task with the quality of images presented and whilst he clarified that he would be looking for creativity, once again it was Natural History that came out on top.

Six 20’s were awarded across the whole competition, (4 were fauna, 2 were flora) unfortunately though EHHPS didn’t manage a 20 or a star in this round and only one 19 came our way. Well done Paul Mason with Waiting.

Total scores for the round were:

PRINTS

EHHPS 88
Pinner 89
Watford 93

PDI’s

EHHPS 88
Pinner 94
Watford 94

TOTALS (for this round)

3rd EHHPS 176
2nd Pinner 183
1st Watford 187

The totals then for the 3 rounds combined:

3rd Pinner 562
2nd EHHPS 570
1st Watford 590

We wish Watford well in the Semi Finals.

Across the competition EHHPS was awarded 4 stars so these images will have a second chance and compete against all the other starred images in the competition.

The Bathers by Jacqui Sinnatt
Storm Dennis by Jenny Fenton
Queen of Spades by Mike Lloyd
Statuesque by Kris Mason

Amanda Wright

XRR Visions Competition: A good night for EHHPS

Yesterday saw the final of the 2020 ‘Visions’ competition, organised by XRR, and this year taking place entirely virtually.

The competition is for both individuals (115 in total), and Clubs (in teams of three). Each author submits three images. The first two ‘Open’ rounds are pre-judged, and the third - which also acts as a tie break - is judged live on the night.

This year’s excellent judge was Richard Speirs DPAGB APAGB BPE2* There was a high standard of entry.

In the Club competition, Hertford and District CC tied with Oxford PS on 158 points, with Oxford winning on the Tie Break.

The EHHPS team of Dennis Durack, Jacqui Sinnatt and Paul Mason came a very creditable 4th equal

Club Competition

In the individual competition there was a tie between Robin Claydon of Hertford and District CC and Andy Sands of XRR PS with Andy Sands winning after the tie Break.

In this individual competition, EHHPS’s Emmanuel came in an excellent 6th equal.

Individual Competition

High scoring images from EHHPS members were:

Dennis Durack The Eyes Have It: 20
Emmanuel Scales: 20
Jacqui Sinnatt Serendipity 19

Full results, including thumbnails of all images, can be found on the XRR website

NorthWest Fed Round A2: Amanda Wright's Report and Results

Watford hosted the second round of the NWFed last night (19 November), judged by a slightly nervous Stephen Galvin as it was his first time judging a NWFed event. He rose to the challenge well though, highlighting at the end just how tricky it is to judge a competition where all the images are specifically chosen for their technical and creative merit. He made several comments on the importance of a good title too and how it drew the viewers attention to the message the author was conveying.

It was a close run thing in the Print section and Jenny Fenton’s Storm Dennis was awarded 20 and one of the two allocated stars. Karina Limburg also scored highly with 19 for No Tissue, No Problem.

Print (PDI) Scores were

Pinner 82
EHHPS 89
Watford 92

PDI Scores were even closer with only 1 point separating us all.

Ealing was awarded two 20’s and both allocated stars this time so very well done to Kristin Mason with Statuesque and Mike Lloyd’s Queen Of Spades which was also Stephen’s image of the night!

Pinner 87
EHHPS 88
Watford 89

So totals for round 2

Pinner 169
EHHPS 177
Watford 181

The running total for the two rounds to date stands at:

Pinner 379
EHHPS 394
Watford 403

It all hinges on the final round - it's not over yet for Ealing.

Amanda Wright

Rosebowl Round 1: Amanda Wright's Report

The first round of the Rosebowl kicked off last night (Monday November 9th) for EHHPS who were drawn against Stockenchurch, Witney and Watford. Stockenchurch were originally billed as hosts but as they didn’t feel Zoom Savvy enough we offered to host the evening on their behalf .

I have to say Burgess excelled, playing role of Chairman, Webmaster, Zoom Host and even did the Vote of Thanks at the end!!! So he wore many hats and it was his first external competition but you’d never have guessed it as it all went seamlessly. The evening was well attended with approximately 34 attendees, including, from Ealing, Paul and Kris Mason, Dennis Durack, Karina Limburg, David Bowater, Jenny Fenton, Burgess and myself.

Our judge was Damon Guy who offered up plenty of advice for improvements, complimenting the good bits and scrutinising the details as you would expect. Ealing and Hampshire House I’m pleased to say did exceptionally well which surprised me as I know how good Watford are. I considered them our main competition in this round and it was a close match throughout but we won!

Ealing had five images held back and scooped the two starred images of the night. Our top scorers were

Queen Of Spades by Mike Lloyd: 20 and a Star

Bobcat In Snow by Karina Limburg: 20

Duo Form by Kris Mason: 20 and a Star

En Pointe In Pink by Dennis Durack scored 19

Battersea Power Station At Night also by Dennis Durack scored 19

The Final Score of the night was

4th Stokenchurch: 241
3rd Witney: 261
2nd Watford: 262
1st EHHPS: 269

Click on the summary below for the full scoresheet.

Click on the image above for the full scoresheet

Round 2 is on 15th December, hosted by Maidenhead and we’re also drawn against Leighton Buzzard and our close friends Northfields CC.

Send me your images for consideration before the end of November.

(Amanda Wright)

NorthWest Fed Round A1: Results

Amanda Wright Reports:

Last night (November 2nd) was the first of our annual external competitions with Round 1 of the North West Fed against Pinner and Watford, hosted by Pinner and judged by Kevin Day. The evening was well attended with about 46 Zoomers. Seven members of EHHPS tuned in, including Mr Binks all the way from Canada.

The competition is usually comprised of 6 prints and 6 PDI’s but this year it’s obviously all PDI’s although they are still keeping the two categories.

First up was Prints where EHHPS had two notable scores

Keep Paddling by Sally Mason scored 19
The Bathers by Jacqui Sinnatt scored 20 and was awarded one of the two allotted stars

The results at this stage were incredibly close, with just a point between us all:

Watford 107
EHHPS 108
Pinner 109

In the second half of PDI’s again we had two images to note

Arctic Fox by Karina Limburg scored 19
En Pointe In Pink by Dennis Durack scored 20

Watford came steaming through in the second half with three 20’s and both stars and the results for the PDIs were

Pinner 101
EHHPS 109
Watford 115

Total scores for the evening then were

1st Place Watford 222
2nd EHHPS 217
3rd Pinner 210

Kevin’s judging was as usual fair and considered although he did seem to be having an issue with his images looking on the cool side, several times he said the image looked too blue and neither Rick Beresford or myself could agree with him on that; strange.