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This year's Fordingbridge Challenge Plate took place on 10th April with Louis Rumis AFIAP MPAGB as the judge. Eight clubs participated in the event with eight PDIs each. The rule for this competition is that the images must not have been used previously by the clubs in an external competition. The clubs taking part were Beaulieu Camera Group, Blandford Forum Camera Club, Bournemouth Electric Camera Club, Fordingbridge Camera Club, Poole Camera Club, Ringwood Camera Club, Salisbury Camera Club and Wimborne Camera Club. It was a very relaxed, sociable evening with over 100 people in attendance. The Challenge Plate was won by Salisbury Camera Club for the first time in the event's history. Beaulieu Camera Group finished in 6th place, but with a total of 69.5 marks, we were just one mark away from sharing the 3rd place position, so a good result overall. Our highest scoring image was "Dirty Games" by Paul Gray with 9.5.
Beaulieu Camera Group's Entry
The gallery of images with the author's names can be viewed here:
https://beaulieucameragroup.co.uk/galleries/2019/2019-external-competition-entries
The full results and scoresheet can be seen here:
Fordingbridge_Challenge_Scoresheet_2019.pdf
Sue Dunham - Competition Secretary
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The Southern Counties Photographic Federation's Championships for 2019 took place on Sunday 24th March, which this year were hosted by Hungerford Camera Club. Twenty eight clubs from the SCPF took part in the PDI section and twenty one clubs in the Print section, with each club entering fifteen images into each. The three judges were Judith Parry DPAGB AFIAP HonPAGB and Roger Parry MPAGB ARPS EFIAP HonPAGB ESFIAP, both of Smethwick Photographic Society and John Tilsley ARPS DPAAGB APAGB of Dorchester Camera Club.
PRINTS
The print section was won by Chichester Camera Club with Southampton Camera Club as runners-up. BCG finished in 17th place. Our highest scoring image was "Bamburg Castle" by Hilary Flaxman CPAGB with a total of 13. Hilary's print was retained by the SCPF to be considered for the federation's entry to the PAGB National Championships. The Gold Medal was awarded to Jim Pascoe of Highcliffe and Infinity CC for "Dog Walker" and the Silver Medal to Ann McDonald for "Gannets".
PDI's
The PDI section was also won by Chichester Camera Club and Wareham Camera Club were runners-up. However, this year saw the best ever result for BCG as we finished in 11th place out of the 28 clubs who took part, with a total of 167 marks. We beat Southampton CC, New Forest CC, Salisbury CC, Havant CC, Highcliffe and Infinity CC and Lymington CC and Fordingbridge CC, which was a wonderful achievement. Two of BCG's images scored 13 marks "Reflective Dawn" by Paul Gray and "Survival in a Harsh Winter" by Sue Dunham. The Gold Medal was awarded to Sheila Tester of Chichester CC for "A Flock of Dalmatians" and a Silver Medal was awarded to Sue Dunham for "Survival in a Harsh Winter"!
The gallery of images showing BCG's entries in the Print and PDI sections can be viewed here:
https://beaulieucameragroup.co.uk/galleries/2019/2019-external-competition-entries
The full list of scores for BCG's entries can be seen here:
SCPF_Championships_2019_BCG_Resullts.pdf
Sue Dunham - Competition Secretary
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This year's Newbury Challenge Plate competition took place on 21st March with Jeff Lawrence as the judge. Nine clubs participated in the event with six prints each, and as always, Newbury Camera Club provided an excellent buffet during the break during a very sociable evening. The competing clubs were Abergavenny CC, Alton CC, Andover CC, Beaulieu CG, Hungerford CC, Newbury CC, Ordnance Survey CC, Wantage CC and Wimborne CC. The Challenge Plate was won by Alton CC with a total of 53.5 marks and Beaulieu Camera Group had our best ever result at this event, as we came second (after countback) with 51.5 marks. Our highest scoring print was "Highland Stag" by Bob Abbott which achieved the maximum of 10 points.
Beaulieu Camera Group's Entry
The gallery of images with the Author's names can be viewed here:
https://beaulieucameragroup.co.uk/galleries/2019/2019-external-competition-entries
The full results can be seen here:
Newbury_Plate_2019_Scoresheet.pdf
Sue Dunham - Competition Secretary
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Congratulations go to Jacky Daniel and Sue Dunham who have been successful in gaining the Credit Award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain. This entitles them to use the designation CPAGB.
Jacky and Sue were presented with their Certificates by Cathryn Baldock, Chairman of Beaulieu Camera Group and Peter Rocchioccioli, President of the Southern Counties Photographic Federation.
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Our PDI of the Year took place on 5th December with Barbara Holder CPAGB as the judge.
Barbara had the very difficult task of selecting a winner and second and third place from a total of 86 images which had been awarded a Seal of Merit during the year.
With a concise critique of each image, Barbara chose the following as her top images.
1st Place - Fiona Hardy "Festival at Soller
2nd Place - Hilary Flaxman "Early Evening, Hatchet Pond"
3rd Place - Barry Armstrong "Smoke Break"
Congratulations to Fiona, Hilary and Barry and to all those members whose PDIs were awarded Seals of Merit this year.
Sue Dunham - Competition Secretary