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The members of each team were invited to submit up to 3 PDI images to their Team Captains whose task was to choose twenty to represent them, with at least one included from each member.
Our judge for the event was Jon Mitchell, a member of Gosport Camera Club. Jon has judged many of our competitions in the past and we always enjoy his critique and insightful commentary and he certainly got into the spirit of the evening.
There was a great array of subjects and genres shown, with Jon giving equal consideration to all. The images were scored out of 10 and the team with the most marks were declared the winners.
The final result was a great win for the "Girls" who scored a total of 170 marks with the "Boys" team scoring 166. The prize for the winning team was a box of Roses which was shared between the members of both teams.
Thank you to Hilary and Paul, the team captains, who had a very difficult task in choosing the images and to Ian for his expertise in running the competition.
Congratulations to the following members whose images scored 9.5 and 10: Ian Bateson "Swan Lake" (10), Linda Dunham "Colour Twist" (10) and "The Italians Are Coming" (10), Vanessa Bateson "Saxholl Crater" (9.5), Hilary Flaxman "Baby Macaque, Yamanochi, Japan" (9.5) and Emma Port "The Shambles" (9.5).
The Scoresheet can be view by clicking on this link: 
Boys V Girls PDI Competition 2025 Score Sheet
Sue Dunham, Chairman
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There were lots of stalls, traditional games,activities and entertainment in the arena areas including Morris dancers, a choir and of course the Beaulieu Brass Band.
Beaulieu Camera Group were delighted to be invited to show a display of prints once again with a total of 76 images on show representing nearly every one of our members. Beaulieu Camera Group also held a prize draw to help raise funds for the Common Good Foundation. Three images from our members were selected as the prizes. They were "New Family in the Mist" by Bob Abbott, "A Display Fit for Two Queens" by Linda Dunham and "Summer Shade in the New Forest" by Maggie White. The photos were all of locations in and around the New Forest and Alan Price kindly printed, mounted and framed them. A total of £63 was raised with the three winners of each draw delighted to receive their chosen print.
The delighted winners of "New Family in the Mist" and "Summer Shade in the New Forest" were presented with their prints on the day. "A Display Fit for Two Queens" will be delivered to the winner next week.
Traditionally the celebrity who opening the event is invited to choose their favourite print from those on display. The winner this year was Hilary Flaxman CPAGB with her image "At Your Own Risk - St.Marten", who will receive a John Lewis voucher.
Each year we ask members of the public to vote for their favourite picture, with the winner being awarded The Bob Grier Trophy. The total number of votes overall was 316.
This year's winner was Bob Abbott for his stunning image "Last Sunlight of the Day". Sadly Bob couldn't attend the Fete and Lord Montagu kindly accepted the trophy on his behalf. We will present Bob with his trophy when we next meet at the School.
Thank you to all the members of Beaulieu Camera Group who helped with the setting up, stewarding, and taking down the display on the day. It was as always, a lovely, sociable occasion and such a great way to be involved with Beaulieu Village and all the other organisations who take part in the Fete.
To see lots more photos of this year's Fete please click on this link to the Beaulieu Fete website: Beaulieu Village Fete 2025
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The images for each year's competition portray a different genre and the one chosen for 2025 was "Travel". A definition of the theme was sent to our members and the judge for this year, Amanda Miller LRPS CPAGB. Amanda is a member of BH Photography Group and has consistently impressed us with her judging at BCG.
There was avery good entry of 45 images which Amanda did an excellent task of assessing. She held back fourteen images from which she selected the following for the awards:
1st place and winner of the Alan Cooke Memorial Shield was Hilary Flaxman CPAGB with "Follow Me Carefully, Arctic Ocean".
Seven Highly Commended Certificates were awarded: Bob Abbott "Fish Market, Galapagos", Vanessa Bateson "Lake District" Linda Dunham "New York Nights" and "On the Lookout", Gordon Garret "Inca Ruins in the Sacred Valley, Peru" and "Taj Mahal Sunset Across the Yamuna River" and Maggie White "Have Bag, Will Travel".
To see the PDF of the entries, please click on this link:Alan Cooke Memorial Shield 2025 "Travel" Results
Sue Dunham Chairman
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The images for each year's competition portray a different genre and the one chosen for 2025 was "Travel".A definition of the theme was sent to our members and the judge, Amanda Miller LRPS CPAGB and a member of BH Photography Group, whose judging at previous BCG competitions has always impressed us.
There was avery good entry of 45 images which Amanda did an excellent task of assessing. She held back fourteen images from which she selected the following for the awards:
1st place and winner of the Alan Cooke Memorial Shield was Barrie Armstrong with "Alicia"
The Runner-up was Linda Dunham with "Blues Man"
Seven Highly Commended images were awarded: Bob Abbott "Looking Over My Shoulder", Barry Armstrong "The Auctioneer", Vanessa Bateson "Dolomites, Ralph Ellis "Dark in the Chapel", Chris Kealey "Vallie Blanche" Edna Phillips "Letterbox" and Alan Price "Just Busking",
To see the PDF of the entries, please click on this link:Alan Cooke Memorial Shield 2024 "Black and White" Results
Sue Dunham Chairman
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The subjects were: "Abstract", "Complementary Colours", "Details", "Get Low", "In the Middle", 'Letters", "Rule of Odds", "Symmetrical Composition", "Texture"and "Wide Angle".
The Teams spent the first part of the evening finding and photographing the images. Afterwards, we met at the Duke of Wellington for refreshments and the teams chose their ten images which were uploaded onto the MacBook with at least two images from each team member. Ian Hutchinson once again made a great job of putting them into separate folders ready to be scored at the competition on 19th June.
The images were all "as taken" as jpegs with no post processing at all. Each set of images for each subject were shown as PDIs with Emma Port as our judge for the event. Emma placed the images in order from 1st, 2nd and 3rd and the cumulative scores were added together to give a total overall score. The images were excellent and showed the proficiency and skill of our members in producing such good results straight from the camera.
After a very close competition, the winning team was "Only JPGs" made up of Tony Darnell, Linda Dunham, Hilary Flaxman and Ian Hutchinson, who were each awarded a pack of Maltesers.
Here are the winnings team's images:
Sue Dunham, Chairman