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Theme Competition, May 2022, "Steps"
On Thursday 26 May 2022 we held the second round of our Theme competitions, and the theme this time was “Steps”. We welcomed Chris Boyes to be the judge. Chris is President of Sale Photographic Society, and the newly appointed Mayor of Trafford.
The 15 prints from 9 authors were shown first, and after a run through Chris gave his comments and scores, holding back five to look at again at the end.The two Prints that Chris awarded the full 20 points to are as follows:
"Ashton Memorial, Lancaster" by Mike Williamson "Library Steps" by David Barker
After a break the 43 PDI from 23 entrants were shown, and after the run through Chris held back 11 PDI for further consideration. The three PDI given the maximum score by Chris were as follows:
"Stairway To Heaven" by Mike Williamson
"Midland Hotel Stairs" by David Hawkins "Stepping Down" by Mike Williamson
We congratulate the winning authors and thank Chris Boyes for his constructive comments, helpful tips and advice.
The individual scores for both the Print and PDI sections, along with the leader boards, can be viewed by clicking on the relevant attachment below
 Theme Competition Leaderboard | [ ] | 245 kB |
| Theme Competition Prints Score sheet | [ ] | 179 kB |
| Theme Competition PDI Score sheet | [ ] | 246 kB |
PDI Competition Round 3, May 2022
We held the third round of our Open PDI competition on Thursday 19 May, and invited Martin Pickles to be our judge.
Martin has been a judge for the Southern Counties federation for over 10 years, but has recently moved to Macclesfield. He has had a modicum of success in various international competitions, and lists documentary, street, landscape and nature among his favourite genres to photograph.
After an initial run through of each round Martin gave us the benefit of his expertise and detailed comments, and scored the images out of 20 points.
The image in the Club Level that scored 20 points was:
"Issie" by Yvonne Casselli
The Intermediate Group images awarded 20 points were:
"Sgwd yr Eira" by Mark Porter "Straight Down the Barrel" by Susan Bedingham
"Small Heath Butterfly" by Jeff Griffiths
The Advanced Group gave Martin some cause for concern as he said they all were of a very high standard, and of the 26 images in this group Martin held back 15 for further consideration.
After some deliberation Martin gave the following images the full 20 points:
Dawn over Canisp and Suilven" by David Hawkins "Perch Rock Lighthouse" by Phil Durkin
"The Lowry" by Paul Longden "Great Crested Grebe Turning Fish" by Richard Towell
"Stewart" by Alan Bromiley
We thank Martin for his comments and our congratulations to the authors of these images.
All the scores and leader boards can be seen by opening the relevant PDF attachments below.
| Advanced Level Results Sheet | [ ] | 242 kB |
| Intermediate Level Results sheet | [ ] | 240 kB |
| Club Level Results sheet | [ ] | 232 kB |
| Advanced Level Leader board May 2022 | [ ] | 358 kB |
| Intermediate Level Leader board May 2022 | [ ] | 173 kB |
| Club Level Leader board May 2022 | [ ] | 172 kB |
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