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The subjects were: "Something Old, Something New", "Geometry", "Pink or Purple", "High Key", "Zoom Effect", "From a Dog's Perspective", "Something Soft", "Door Furniture", "Smaller Than Your Thumb" and "Reflections in a Window".
The Teams spent the first part of the evening finding and photographing the images. Afterwards, they met at the Mayflower Hotel for refreshments and the teams chose their ten images which were uploaded onto the MacBook. There were a couple of issues with problematic SD cards, but Ian Hutchinson once again made a great job 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 the judge for the event Sue Dunham, critiqueing each image. They were placed in order from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th 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 "Rage" made up of Alan Fisher, Gordon Garrett, Edna Phillips and Rob Snellgrove, who were each awarded a pack of Maltesers.
Here are the winnings team's images:
Sue Dunham, Chairman
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This years SCPF Championships took place on 17th March and were hosted by Bognor Regis Camera Club.
The judges were: Professor David Wheeler FRPS DPAGB EFIAP/d3 MFIAP (MCPF) David Smith LRPS CPAGB BPE1* (SPA) Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE5* (KCPA)
Thirty five clubs entered images into the PDI section and 21 clubs entered prints. BCG entered the PDI section.
In First place was New Forest Camera Club with 181 points and in 2nd place Southampton Camera Club with 176 points.
Beaulieu Camera came 17th with a total score of 167. This was an excellent result, as not only are we one of the smaller clubs in the Federation but we also used images from 10 different members, unlike many other top clubs with large memberships.
Three of our images were awarded scores of 13: "Bridge of Lines" by Vanessa Bateson and "Meadow Pipit with Lunch" and "Sailing Boats ICM" both by Maggie White CPAGB.
Congratulations to them and to all our members whose work was selected and helped to achieve this outstanding result for Beaulieu Camera Group.
SCPF PDI Championships 2024 BCG Scores- Details
Congratulations to Beaulieu Camera Group member, Gordon Garrett who has had his image of snowdrops at Damerham Church published in the February 2024 edition of Hampshire Life magazine.
The magazine cover and article can be seen below together with a copy of Gordon's image.
Well done Gordon.
Sue Dunham Chairman BCG
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Maggie White CPAGB, a member of Beaulieu Camera Group, has won the Beaulieu River Photo Competition for the third time.
She beat hundreds of entrants with her image "Messing About on the River" which was selected by Lord Montagu to be featured on the cover of the 2024 Beaulieu River Tide Times and Information booklet. Maggie was also a runner-up with her other entry of Autumn colours on the River. Maggie will be presented with her prize, a canvas of the image, plus £200 at Buckler's Hard Yacht Harbour shortly.
A report of the competition was published in the Southern Daily Echo on 16th January 2024 and is included below with a copy of her winning image for this year. Congratulation Maggie!
Sue Dunham Chairman BCG
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Third place was awarded to "I Wonder" by Sue Berkeley ARPS CPAGB
Gordon awarded eight Highly Commended Certificates to the following: "Forest Reflection", "Reflections" and "Singing Whitethroat" by Bob Abbot, "Dawn at Vestrahorn" by Ian Bateson, "Decisions" by Hilary Flaxman CPAGB, "I've Told You Before" and "Plaza de Espana" by Alan Price ARPS and "Sunset at Acres Down" by Maggie White CPAGB.
Congratulations to the award winners and to all the Beaulieu Camera Group members whose PDI images were awarded Seals of Merit during the year.
The full size images of all these can be viewed in The Gallery
Sue Dunham Chairman BCG