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.

• 1^st Place:             Geoff Sargent  – Into the Light
• 2^nd Place:             Leslie Coombes  – Battersea Power Station
• 3^rd Place:             Christine Smith  – Pollen Coated Bee

Battersea-Power-Station-by-Lesley-Coombes

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Battersea-Power-Station-by-Lesley-Coombes

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

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Walkway-to-Nowhere-by-Dylan-Harvey

 Woking Photographic Society held its  annual Audio Visual competition for the Keith Hunt Trophy on 17 October 2023. The judge was John Randall from Andover Photographic Club.

Congratulations to Kathleen Bird for winning the Keith Hunt Trophy for the third time with an AV entitled “Golden Treasury”. 

Congratulations also go to John Baker who achieved Highly Commended for “The Fallero Museum”.

Kathleen receiving the trophy from Woking’s Chairman and the judge. 

Message from our Judge  Paul Graber LRPS –

I’ve now completed the exercise, and attach my mark sheets. I’ve added comments for Entry and Intermediate, but not Advanced (with one exception, where I’m justifying a top mark even though there’s a minor fault). It’s inevitable that these pithy comments come across as more critical than I’d be in person and with more space/time than I have here. If anyone would particularly like some more detailed feedback, I’m happy for you to share my email address. (If you would like to contact Paul please ask David Bird for his email address)

I don’t know if you always have lots of birds, or whether people had looked me up and checked on my interests, but there were plenty, some of them absolute crackers!

Thank you for the opportunity to judge a good standard competition – I enjoyed it. 

Regards
Paul

Congratulations to all entrants on such a good show of images, and especially to those who received top marks. 

Entry Class Images
Entry Pdi#5 May 2020 Scoresheet

Intermediate Images
Intermediate Pdi#5 May 2020 Scoresheet

Advanced Images
Advanced Pdi#5 May 2020 Scoresheet

Thank you very much for spending time to judge our competition Steve, and we hope to see you at our club in more settled times.

There are 11 Entry class images, 7 Intermediate class images  and
32 Advanced class images. I have put every one of them on Flickr in their 3 groups. I have only put marks on Flickr for those scoring 9 and above, but all the results can be found on the PDFs below, along with a brief comment from Steve.

Congratulations to all entrants on such a good show of images, and especially to those who received top marks. 

Entry Class Results
Entry images

Intermediate Results
Intermediate images

Advanced results
Advanced images

The results of this competition are in! Our judge Royston Williamson has spent time marking and commenting on every image, for which we thank him very much.

There are 18 Entry PDIs, 18 Intermediate PDIs and 28 Advanced PDIs altogether, and I have put every one of them on Flickr in their 3 groups. I have only put marks on Flickr for those scoring 9 and above, but all the results can be found on the PDFs below, along with a brief comment from Royston.

Congratulations to all entrants on such a good show of images, and especially to those who received top marks. The results are in alphabetical order of title.

Entry Class – Results
Entry images

Intermediate Class – Results
Intermediate images

Advanced Class – Results
Advanced images

The evening went well with Cranleigh just pipping us by 1 mark in the Open section, where each club submitted 15 entries. In the Nature section, which had the same number of entries, we won by 9.5 marks. The full marks are below.

Cranleigh Vs Ludshott Inter Club Nature

Cranleigh Vs Ludshott Inter Club Open

The running order can be found here – https://surreypa.org.uk/2019-inter-club-championship-print-results/ 

Our results are below with the score out of 15 after each title.
Congratulations to Mike Young ARPS for receiving a Judge’s medal for his beautiful print of “Cuckoo Landing”.

Nature
Godalming were first, We came second with Mid Sussex Club

01 Cuckoo landing by Mike Young          14
02 Otter on the Riverbank by John Gamble     11
03 Goldfinches on teasel by Mike Young          13
04 Large White feeding on Scabious by Gordon Rae 11
05 Partridge on the stubble by John Gamble   11
06 Spiderwebs by Brian Bond      12
07 Great Crested Grebe bonding display by Mike Young      12
08 Wren by John Price       13

Open
We were eighteenth out of 21

01 A classy lady by John Price      9
02 Egrets caught in the Surf by Keith Mumford          10
03 Garlic Reflected by David Bird           10
04 Gently down the stream by Andy Mason    12
05 Misty reflection by Brian Bond          12
06 Early morning on the Beach by John Price 11
07 Pretty flamingo by John Gamble       10
08 Grey Heron by John Wichall   12
09 Watching the Match by Bruce Gardner      10
10 Synchronised Arrivals by Paul Crook 12
11 Wearing Papa’s Hat by Yvonne Lindup        9
12 Waverley Abbey by Kathleen Bird     10
13 Japanese raku fired ceramic pot by Grant Dawkins          12
14 Punch Bowl Morning by Andy Mayson        10
15 White Rhino in dappled shade by John Wichall     11
16 Windows by Paul Crook           9

Our next competition on 6 January is a set subject PDI competition. What is Creative Geometric Design I hear you ask? Well it should have a geometric shape or two in it such as – 

Think architecture – Roofs, staircases, skyscrapers, chimneys………
Think Nature – spider webs, flower or seed heads. Ammonites, peacocks, snail shells……….
Think Manmade objects – coiled ropes, rows of cutlery, clothing, tiles, rows of chairs, shop displays..…..
Think food – pineapples,  sliced fruit, cup cakes……..