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Surrey Rose Bowl 2025 results
Grant Dawkins and the Selection team (Gordon Rae, John Price and Suzy Courtnage) had worked hard to create the monochrome panel ‘Going Up and Coming Down’ featuring Staircases, with these results:
- Ludshott PC was awarded a ‘Highly Commended’ for the quality of this panel
- Grant Dawkins was awarded Second place for his image ‘Two ladies on the stairs’.
- (The other images featured in the panel were by – Lesley Coombes, John Price, Harold Russell and Suzy Courtnage.)
- We were the only Club to receive two mentions in the awards results
So a great result all round, and many congratulations to all involved in this achievement
Jim Henson AV Competition results 2025
Congratulations to Suzie Kirkby cpagb/av for winning the Jim Henson AV trophy for the third time with an excellent entry “The Ladies’ Chateau””.
A big thank you is extended to the judge Ken Scott ARPS APAGB GMBPsS for spending time to judge the AVs beforehand, a time-consuming task.
Ken started the afternoon with an interesting presentation which included some of his AVs. Then we watched each of the 13 entries, and Ken commented on each of them.
Congratulations to the winners
1st: The Ladies’ Chateau by Suzie Kirkby
2nd: Where have all the Flowers Gone by Jack Taylor
3rd: Albert’s School Prize by Jean Hoyle
Commended: Open to the World by Harold Russell
Commended: Reflections on a River by Kathleen Bird
Smart phone competition – 2nd December 2024
Monday evening saw one of our roll-up evenings, but this time dedicated to photographs taken on a phone.
The Members submitted their photos which were randomly split into groups of 6 photos and members were invited to choose their favourite in each group, those photographs were then voted on a second time to get a final 3.
- 1st Place: Geoff Sargent – Into the Light
- 2nd Place: Leslie Coombes – Battersea Power Station
- 3rd Place: Christine Smith – Pollen Coated Bee
The winners of the other groups were:
- Leslie Coombes – Canterbury Cathedral Interior
- Colin Smith – Saxophone Keys
- Steve Littler – Me and my Shadow
- Dylan Harvey – Walkway to Nowhere
- Brian Bond – Twin Pines
- Dylan Harvey – Infinity Pool
- Geoff Sargent – Catacombs
Previous summer challenges
Summer Challenge 2022
This year’s Summer Challenge has been rather disappointing.
Although we had 43 entries (not as many as last year, but not bad), only seventeen Members entered. Worse still, only seventeen Members voted.
Nevertheless, it was a close contest between four images with only one point between each; the final result being as follows:
FIRST Haymaking by Angus McKay
SECOND Scottish Tranquillity by Bob Cole
THIRD Constable Country by Kathleen Bird
We usually only report the first three but as it was so close, only one point behind:
FOURTH Painshill Park by Sheila Orford
Summer Challenge 2021
“Summer Postcard from ———“
There were a record number of 49 entries this year. Congratulations to the winners of a tightly fought contest.
Results
The Winner is Mike Young with ‘The Buoys on the Beach’.
Well done Mike!
Runner-up is John Price with ‘Postcard from Skipton’
Third is Angus McKay with ‘Flying High at the Southsea Kite Festival’
“Summer Postcard from the seaside by Harold Russell” and
“Bored stiff in Ludlow by Gordon Rae” also scored well.
All the images may be viewed here
Summer Challenge 2020
“My Hobby”
Your task this year was to photograph one of your hobbies, as you were probably thrown back onto your own resources and hobbies during lockdown.
41 images were entered, congratulations to the winners –
FIRST EQUAL:
08 The Gardener by Kathleen Bird
FIRST EQUAL:
13 My Hobby -3 in 1- Photography, Philately & Phlowers by Gordon Rae
THIRD:
06 Embroidery by Kathleen Bird
Click here to see all the entries.
Summer Challenge 2019
“The Effects of Water (or lack of it)“
39 images were entered for this year’s Summer Challenge, and the winners were –
FIRST: Water in Suspension by John Price
SECOND: Breaching the defences by Gordon Rae
THIRD: Where there is water, wildlife comes by Diana Grant
All entries are on Flickr
Summer Challenge 2018
“Ready for the Day“
18 members entered the Summer Challenge, but only 15 members voted which is disappointing.
The results are –
FIRST No. 06 Sail buggies ready by Mike Young
SECOND No. 01 Ready for their Day by Harold Russell
THIRD No. 05 Preparing for the Day by Kathleen Bird
Summer Challenge 2017
“Hands at Work”
17 members entered the Summer Challenge, and we finally managed to collect 20 voters.
The clear winner was “Pottery Painting” (#17) by Angus McKay.
Tying for runner-up were
“Silversmith at work” (#2) by Brian Thomas
“Making Music” (#36) by Gordon Rae.
4th #7 Hands at work, feet at play by David Bird
5th = #23 Medieval hand writing by Paul Crook
5th = #30 Tightening by Grant Dawkins
5th = #34 The Longest Pray by Gordon Rae
View All Images for “Hands at Work”
Summer Challenge 2016
“Reflection(s) in the Wet”
RESULTS
In the end, after pointed reminders, 22 members voted and the results are:
First: with 24 points Number 17 Knahsneerg Reflection by John Wichall
Second: with 18 points Number 5 I’m Coming by Angus McKay
Third: with 11 points Number 6 Strange Reflections by Angus McKay
Fourth: with 10 points Number 22 Reflection in a Circle in a Spiral by Gordon Rae
To see all the entries go to this album
Summer Challenge 2015
“The Colour of Summer”
First
Second equal
Click here for more details
Summer Challenge 2014 Slideshow
“All the fun of the Fair”. “Fair” in this case can include carnivals, fetes, street parties, craft markets etc.
Results of the members’ voting is below.
Summer Challenge 2013
This year the theme is “Summer Self Portrait”.
2012 Challenge – Summer Sport
With the Olympics dominating our summer I thought this summer’s website photo challenge
should be “Summer Sport”. Even if, like me, you will only see the main action on TV, I am
sure there will be plenty of local opportunities to get a cracking photo for the challenge.
With the Olympics dominating our summer I thought this summer’s website photo challenge
should be “Summer Sport”. Even if, like me, you will only see the main action on TV, I am
sure there will be plenty of local opportunities to get a cracking photo for the challenge.
Winner – Olympic Road Race by John Gamble
John Gamble LRPS
John Gamble 1943 – 2024
It is with considerable sadness we have to announce the sudden passing of John Gamble. John was a character larger than life, always ready with a joke and for another challenge, somebody we will always remember. He was the life and soul of a party, with many stories about cricket, journalism, Round Table and the RNLI.
Outside his family, John had three great passions, his shooting, his photography and his fishing. John had been a member and an active and loyal supporter of Ludshott Photographic club for over twenty years, joining in with all its competitions, meetings and social occasions. He was a member of the committee, and has organised many of our social events. At some of our early barbecues he was chief cook, and regularly attended the annual dinner each year. He has been a friend and willing helper to many of us, particularly the new and less experienced members. John was always ready and available to help anybody who asked. He was very competitive, always striving for top marks. But we pulled his leg unmercifully about his photography and his photographs. We said he was the only photographer in the club who never entered an image worth less than a 10………. in his opinion! I remember once when he was a governor at the Royal Surrey Hospital he borrowed a skeleton and produced some hilarious photographs, which he entered into club competitions!
John loved the outdoors, shooting and fishing and spent many hours taking wildlife photos. He received an LRPS very early on, I think in 2005, with an excellent wildlife panel.
Although John had not been properly well for several years he had that determined, “bulldog” attitude and approach that was not going to stop him doing anything and everything he wanted to do. His unwillingness to give in and “sheer bloody mindedness” kept John going, sometimes when he should not have done so.
John was just as keen and competitive with his fishing, and that is what he was doing when he died yesterday. Although Sue had tried to persuade him not to go, John was determined to go to meet his mates for whom he had organised a day’s trout fishing. John had tackled up and headed straight for his favourite spot on a little promontory. After his third cast, probably much to his surprise, he hooked a lively trout. John managed to land the fish, summarily dispatched with his priest, stood up, then collapsed and did not recover.
However sad and sudden a shock that was to everyone, it was a way John himself would have chosen, especially if he had known at that point in the day he had caught the biggest trout!
John was a man of strongly held opinions. He could be irritatingly argumentative and curmudgeonly. Then he was like a dog with a bone, but John was also kind, thoughtful, generous, and had a heart as big as a bucket.
We will all have our own individual memories of him. Without doubt John Gamble will be remembered and missed by everyone who had the privilege of meeting and knowing him.
Kathleen and Gordon
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Exposure Presentation from Rollup Meeting
Jim Henson AV Competition results 2024
Congratulations to Harold Russell for winning the Jim Henson AV trophy for the second time with an excellent entry “Call to Prayer”. Harold also won the trophy in 2022 with “Faces of South East Asia”.
A big thank you is extended to the judge Steve Kirkby CPAGB(AV) for spending time to judge the AVs beforehand, a time-consuming task.
The meeting, held in Headley Village Hall, started with Steve explaining the criteria he looks for in an Audio Visual. He showed us some of his AVs, asking us to watch out for specific points. He then commented on each AV in the competition, making this a good learning event as well as an entertainment.
There were 16 entries from a number of different clubs, six of which were from Ludshott members.
Congratulations to the winners
First: Call to Prayer by Harold Russell
Second: Kolmanskop, a 21st Century Ghost Town by Jean Hoyle
Third: Visions of Ashdown Forest by David Brooker
Highly Commended:
The Cold Heart of England by Paul Crook
Barcelona by Richard Knapp
Coco by Kathleen Bird
Commended:
A Fallen Branch by Brian Dowdall
My Scotland by Norman Horsham
SPA Biennial Exhibition
The Surrey Photographic Association Exhibition 2024
2024 sees the return of the Biennial Exhibition at the Guildford House Gallery. Club members submitted their entries for selection which took place 15-17 February. Suzy Courtnage LRPS had two of her images (Stairwell and Brown Rat) selected for inclusion within the Exhibition.
The exhibition will open on the 5th April and close on 27th. The awards dinner will be held in Reigate Manor Hotel on the 5th April.
See February 2024 News letter for full details.