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
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
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
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.
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”.
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
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……..
Held on Saturday 11 May 2019 at East Horsley Village Hall
NATURE RESULTS
FIRST Epsom
SECOND EQUAL Godalming and Woking
Ludshott did well in NATURE. We came fifth out of 19 Surrey clubs. Last year we came 14th out of 19.
Mike Young ARPS had the winning image of the afternoon – Goldfinch with fledgling (see above)
with a score of 14. This received the cup and medal
Mike also received 13 out of 15 for “Fritillaries meet”, which won a Judge’s medal
We did not do well in the Open section where the results were
FIRST Richmond
SECOND Windlesham and Camberley
THIRD Yateley
We came 21st out of 25. Last year we came 22nd out of 27
Best Picture
Calm at Sunset Francis Bryan Yateley
Runner-up
Cheers Mike Wilson Horley
Third Place
Abstract Autumn View of Waterfall Andi Hargreaves Dorking
Highly Commended
Shimla Railway Worker Mike Bromley DPAGB BPE2 Old Coulsdon
Serenity Daan Olivier FRPS AFIAP Windlesham
Incoming Puffin Simon van Orden Epsom
Dear Photography Club
I am writing to announce the launch of an exciting new Art & Photography competition your group may be interested.
As part of a host of activities to celebrate its 60th anniversary, Surrey Wildlife Trust is offering a top prize of £500 and the chance to exhibit at Guildford House Gallery from 25th May to 16th June.
The Wild Surrey Art & Photography competition asks artists & photographers to explore the connection we have with wildlife and nature, and submit work which responds to three categories: inspiring nature, wildlife under threat and wildlife adaptation in an urban environment.
The Wild Surrey Art & Photography competition is open to children and young people between the ages of 8 and 17 and amateur and professional artists in the adult category of age 18 and over.
Entry is open until midnight Sunday 14th April 2019. For more details on how to enter and full terms and conditions, please visit our website.
We would be absolutely delighted to received submissions from any of your members, and if I can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes
Sophie
Event Manager
Surrey Wildlife Trust
