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The SCPF Exhibition is held in January each year. It is an inter-club event, open to all member clubs. The panels of prints showcasing 35 panels of clubs in the Federation (six images in each) will be exhibited in the Young Gallery, above Salisbury Library, together with a panel from the judge. There is also a television screening of all the PDI entries. The exhibition will be opened at the preview evening on 5th January 2024 by this years judge Alan Walker MPAGB, ARPS, EFIAP, MPSA, BPE4*.
The Judging took take place at Sparsholt Memorial Hall on Sunday 19th November 2023 with scores out of 10 and awards given to those images of Alan's choice.
Print Results: 1st Place Winchester PS: 2nd Place Gosport CC: 3rd Place SCC
Highly Commended Panels: Beaulieu Camera Group (!), Yateley CC and BH PC,
PDI Resuts: 1st Place Yateley CC: 2nd Place BH PC: 3rd Place Chichester CC. HCs: Basingstoke CC, Wimborne CC, Winchester PS. BCG finished in 21st place out of the 37 clubs taking part.
This is a wonderful achievement for BCG who are one of the smaller clubs in the Federation. We have an ethos of inclusivity and images are selected from the whole membership to represent the Group in external competitions. Congratulations to all our members whose work was used for the SCPF Exhibition.
Here is our print panel: "Rush Bush" Alan Price ARPS, "Arches and Shadows" Gordon Garrett, "Female Dartford Warbler" Ian Hutchinson, "Great Crested Grebe Family" Bob Abbott, "Summer Wilderness" Maggie White CPAGB, "Glacier, Iceland" Hilary Flaxman CPAGB
To see the images entered by BCG into the Print and PDI sections of the Exhibition, please click on this link: Gallery of images
Further details about the SCPF Championship results including the winning panels can be seen by clicking on this link: https://southerncountiespf.org.uk/2023/11/november-newsletter-3/
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Third place was awarded to "A Dogs' Day Out" by Maggie White CPAGB
Tony awarded three Highly Commended Certificates to the following: "Saying Goodbye" by Paul Berkeley AFIAP ARPS CPAGB BPE1, "Outbound" by Alan Price ARPS and "Chandelier" by Rob Snellgrove LRPS
Congratulations to the award winners and to all the Beaulieu Camera Group members whose prints were awarded Seals of Merit during the year. The quality and variety of genres and styles certainly made for a super evening.
Sue Dunham Chairman BCG
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This was the second time that BCG held a Panel of Three competition using PDIs. with the first being in 2021. There was an impressive entry of 33 panels with a great array of subject matter, genres and techniques.
Each panel was shown in full, followed by the individual images and then returning to the full screen panel view. The authors were invited to talk about their panels with interaction from the members, generating discussions which were encouraging and helpful.
Six of the panels were held back and the final winner was selected by our digital secretary, Ian Hutchinson, who once again did a great job of creating the competition folders and running the evening.
The winning panel was "Loose Screws" by Rob Snellgrove LRPS which Ian felt was a very well thought-out and put-together panel.
Congratulations to Rob and all the members who made the evening such a success.
Sue Dunham, Chairman, BCG
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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.
Our judge for the event was Alan Harris, Programme Secretary of Lymington Camera Club. This was the first time Alan, who is an accomplished photographer, had judged an external competition and he did an excellent job of assessing each image.
There was a great array of subjects and genres shown, with Alan giving equal consideration to all. It was certainly a very close fought competition. The images were scored out of 10 and the team with the most marks were declared the winners.
The final result was another win for "The Boys'" team who scored a total of 174 marks with "The Girls'" team scoring a total of 168. The "Girls" were gracious in defeat and the victorious "Boys" kindly shared the winners' prize of a box of Heroes with them.
Congratulations to the following members whose images scored 10: Paul Berkeley ARPS DPAGB for "No Way Back"", Rob Snellgrove LRPS for "Over My Shoulder" and Maggie White CPAGB for "Twisted Stamens".
The Scoresheet can be view by clicking on this link:
Boys v Girls 2023 Scoresheet
Sue Dunham, Chairman
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Following the cancellation of this year's Beaulieu Village Fete on 15th July due to extreme weather conditions, an alternative event, the Beaulieu Village Meadow Fair was held on 19th August. It was a lovely day and wonderful to see so many people.
Beaulieu Camera Group was delighted to take part and be able to hold our exhibition. Nearly every member was represented, with a total of eighty one prints on display,
Each year at the Fete, members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite image. The photographer whose image receives the highest number of votes is awarded the Bob Grier Memorial Trophy. The astounding total number of votes this year was 342, which was an all time record. The winner was Maggie White with her image "Wild Wood Mouse".
Usually the celebrity who opens the Fete is asked to choose their favourite image with the author being pressented with a bottle of chapage. This year Lord and Lady Montague and the Treasurer of the Fete, Elizabeth Selzer, chose their favourite which was "Female Sparrowhawk with Prey" by Bob Abbott.
Thank you to the many Beaulieu Camera Club members who helped set the exhibition up, were there all day helping run the event and who stayed until the very end to take it all down again.
To see the results of the votes cast, please click on this link: Votes Cast Beaulieu Meadow Fair 2023
Sue Dunham, Chairman