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Cambridge Digital Inter-Club Competition 2023

The regional club competitions start each year with the Cambridge Digital Inter-Club Competition and it’s always a good chance to meet up with old friends and photographers from other clubs and see some of the best images from around the region. This year was the first in person meeting for a few years because of the effects of covid and those effects were still evident. Normally 35 clubs compete with a waiting list and there have been up to 190 visitors but this year numbers were down with only 27 clubs entered and only around 60 external visitors, but it was still a good meeting.

The Cambridge club are very well organised the competition runs very smoothly, and their catering team provide very good cakes. There are five rounds, Mono, People, Landscape, Nature, and Open, each image is marked out of 20 and the highest scoring club is the winner.

Ralph Duckett MPAGB EFIAP APAGB, from Staffordshire had the hard job of judging this year. He has been a member at Burton on Trent Photographic Society for over 40 years. An experienced PAGB judge, he gave concise and useful comments with good humour on each image and awarded very high scores to many of them, his opinion being that the standard was very high. Ralph awarded 37 images with full marks of 20/20 and this gave him a very difficult job to select his overall winning image. He whittled these down to a final 7 images but then threw it out to the audience to help him select the winner – not the most conventional way to pick a winner but this ended the afternoon with at least the winning photographer happy!

Five members from NDPS went along to observe the competition. Two of our 5 images scored 20 and overall, we ended with 94 points, out of 100, putting us in equal 8th place slightly down on last year but still a result we were very happy with. Top club was Photographic Imaging Co-Operative (PICO) with 99, second was Welwyn Garden (98), third North Norfolk Photographic Society (97).

Next up are the St Ives Interprint and the EAF Championships. If you get the chance to go along and watch the judging it is recommended as it gives you a good feel for the standard of work in the region and will inspire your own photography.

Review by Dave Balcombe ARPS & Joan Jordan ARPS

CompetitionMaurice YoungJanuary 24, 2023cambridge, digital, inter-club, monochrome, people, landscape, nature, open

Results of POTY Round Five are announced...

In anticipation that the projected image using Skype would not be to the usual standard obtained using a PC/projectorat a normal meeting Andy Wilson was sent high resolution copies of all the images a few days before. This enabled him to look through the images and formulate this scores and eliminated the risk of inconsistent projected images on the night. Although generally image quality was not too bad this nevertheless proved to be a good idea as it led to Andy providing great feedback on each of the images which all the members appreciated. Many thanks Andy and willlook forward to greeting you back in Norwich under more normal circumstances in the not toodistant future.

A great evening of photography resulted in Adrian Richmond winning a POTY round for the first time with his excellent monochrome image Silent Reflections in the Rain. In second place was Dennis Hales’ image Time on my Hands with Brendan McCarney’s image Great View being placed third.

Another four images were held back by Andy in the first round of the competition and these are all shown below.

CompetitionMaurice YoungApril 29, 2020poty, open

Great start to this season’s Photographer of the Year competition.

This season’s Photographer of the Year compeition got off to a great start last night with the room at Chapel Field jam-packed to see our judge for the evening Rex Makemson score a record number of entries.

In order to give new members of the Society the best opportunity to score well this was an open themed round where entraints were asked to ‘let us see your best images’. So it turned out with new member Gary Hagg scoring two maximum scores with his his images - Flower Fairy and Golden Cross.

Competition, POTYMaurice YoungSeptember 25, 2019Norwich & District Photographic Societyopen, landscape, portraits, wildlife

Open Public Competition 2019 - Review

When Norwich & District Photographic Society decided last year to hold an Open Public Competition for the first time everyone involved was a little apprehensive because we had no idea what the response would be. Quickly it became clear that there was no reason for our concern as photographers throughout East Anglia and in some caes far beyond started to post images on our Facebook page. The outcome was so succesful and the quality of the images submitted so good we decided not only to make the competition an annual event but to add this year a junior category.

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