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Cambridge Digital Inter-Club Competition 2023
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

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CompetitionMaurice Youngcambridge, digital, inter-club, monochrome, people, landscape, nature, open
An Indian Adventure by Alan Cameron ARPS
An Indian Adventure by Alan Cameron ARPS

This week at our Tuesday meeting Alan Cameron recounted his pre-pandemic holiday in India, he described it as his travelogue. And what a feast of art, history and photography this presentation proved to be.

 Alan divided his presentation into two parts, part one featured the north of India, the 'Golden Triangle' and Ranthambore National Park, and after the break he moved south to Karnataka and Kerala.

 After a late arrival in Delhi Alan showed us pictures of the terrible traffic and driving manners, highlighting the Tuk Tuk donkeys, sacred cows and the ubiquitous camel!

 The India Gate, commemorating the fallen of both world wars and the mosque were beautifully photographed and presented. These formal photographs were contrasted with pictures of street markets including artisans with tools of their trades, and collections of foodstuffs, nuts, cloves and so on.

 e Gandhi monument built on the site of Gandhi's cremation was an interesting building. World Heritage sites are abundant in India and the tomb of the second Mogul Emperor with its Paradise Gardens with its rivers of water, honey, milk and wine. A land flowing with milk and honey!

 In Agra Alan showed pictures of the famous Taj Mahal with its tomb and paradise gardens.

 In Ranthambore Alan found the famous Indian Tigers and he took some great pictures but not without some trepidation because firearms are not allowed for the guides in their open jeeps.

 Thanks Alan for a wonderful evening.

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Special Presentation, Cambidge Inter-Club, ZoomMaurice Youngindia, trravel, culture, people, landscape
Details of NDPS's Annual Open Public Photography Competition announced...!
Details of NDPS's Annual Open Public Photography Competition announced...!

Norwich & District Photographic Society’s
Annual Open Public Photography Competition

Norwich & District Photographic Society (NDPS) returns this Autumn to Norwich Cathedral between Tuesday 27th September and Saturday 29th October when the 106th Annual Exhibition is held in the prestigious Hostry Exhibition Area.

Would you like to see one of your photographs exhibited at Norwich Cathedral in the Autumn..? That's the prize awaiting four lucky photographers in our Annual Open Public Photography competition..!

To enter send up to three digital images and indicate your age if under 18, by midnight on Sunday 31st July. The judge of this year’s exhibition entries will choose the winner and two runners-up from a final shortlist of twenty selected by the members of the NDPS f1.4 Forum. In addition, there is a separate award for best Junior Photographer under the age of 18 years old on the 1st of September 2022.

The authors of the four photographs selected will each be awarded a framed certificate at the ‘Private Viewing’ for NDPS members and their guests on Tuesday 27th September at 7:00pm in the Hostry.

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Annual Exhibition, Public, CompetitionMaurice Younglife in Norwich, street, people, spaces, creative
Cambridge Camera Club Digital Inter-Club Competition
Cambridge Camera Club Digital Inter-Club Competition

Last Saturday afternoon after the judge, David Lowe ARPS , DPAGB from Smethwick had delivered his critique for the images entered by the twenty-five competing EAF Clubs taking part in this year’s competition Norwich & District Photographic Society tied on 90 points with Ampthill & District Camera Club and Shillington & District Camera Club.

Unfortunately, David chose the reserve image from Ampthill, so they were declared the winners with NDPS, and Shillington declared ‘equal second’.

Near but so far. Nevertheless, this was outstanding achievement and confirms the recent successes by NDPS in other inter-club competitions and the continuing growth of talent and commitment to improvement amongst the Society’s members..

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Competition, Cambidge Inter-ClubMaurice Youngphoto-competition, people, scenes, nature, monochrome
The End of the Mine by Chris Upton
The End of the Mine by Chris Upton

The last of our regular Special Presentation of 2021 was a hugely inspirational talk by Nottinghamshire based photographer Chris Upton. Chris is a landscape, travel and social documentary photographer and his presentation led us through all these areas and much, much more.

This was a walk through Chris' project documenting the last months of Thoresby Colliery in Nottinghamshire. What began as a simple project shooting a record of a mine, albeit not being allowed to go underground, bloomed into something much bigger and grew into an exhibition and a book, not to mention the AV and local radio and television.

This long journey was carefully, researched and choreographed by Chris including making meaningful relationships with the miners working on the site. The important point Chris was making was that a project, leading to a collection of photographs or even a book of pictures was a much better exercise that taking one photo to gain 10/10 from a judge!

The photographs that Chris showed us were wonderful examples of the art of black and white photography, because that’s what they were, he explained that If they had been in colour we would have all had our attention stuck on the orange workwear and missed the important vistas in the background.

All the pictures were shot in RAW, of course, converted into black and white and the postproduction was in Nik or Lightroom. And what wonderful results they were, Chris showed himself to be a consummate photographer and postproduction expert.

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Special Presentation, DocumentaryMaurice Youngindustrial history, mining, people, photo-talk