News 2022-2023

Open Prints Round 1 Judge Mark Buckley-Sharp (Harrow)
Posted on Sun 15 Oct 2023
Some decent quality prints were on offer for our judge, Mark Buckley-Sharp to critique. Each print was examined in depth and useful comments were made.
The results were as follows:

First...

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PDIs Round 1 Open Judge Ken Payne (Hertford CC) 28-09-23
Posted on Fri 29 Sep 2023

This was the first competition of the new season judged by Ken Payne on his first visit to the club. There were 38 images on the night and Ken gave a very constructive critique on each during the first half of the evening before whittling down the numbers into a shortlist from which the...

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Street Photography – an Intrusion? Terry Day September 21 2023
Posted on Fri 22 Sep 2023

Terry drew on his substantial street photography archives to illustrate PSCC's first talk of the new season. He underlined the advantages of using prime lenses 35-70mm rather than using long zoom lenses which could become somewhat intrusive. He also emphasised that it was important to...

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Print of the Year 2022-23 Judge Chris Forster 15 June 2023
Posted on Fri 16 Jun 2023

There was an entry of 45 images for the print of the year judged by Chris Forster. Chris made many suggestions as to how several of the prints could have been improved and additionally how the choice of printing paper could have enhanced some of the images. In the end 16 images were held back...

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PDI of the Year 2022-23 Judge Tom Peck 8 June 2023
Posted on Fri 16 Jun 2023

A bumper entry of 76 images (probably rather too many) were entered in this competiton. After the competiton the feeling was that maybe we should exclude the images from the panel competition in future. Tom Peck was an excellent judge and gave constructive critiques on all of the images. 22...

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Final League Scores 2022-23
Posted on Sun 11 Jun 2023

The final league scores have been amended to include scores from the Creative Cup competition.

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Mono Cups 18 May 2023 - Judge Colin Southgate
Posted on Fri 19 May 2023

Without the distraction of colour there is something very appealing about seeing a collection of mono images displayed together. It's another way of seeing the world and is somehow much more than just applying a desaturating filter.

The images we presented to Colin were as usual...

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OPEN ROUND 4 PROJECTED IMAGES JUDGE MICHAEL LURIE 11th May 2023
Posted on Sun 14 May 2023

Another round with good images, making life more difficult for the judge, Michael Lurie of Pinner. His analysis of each image was very instructive and good humoured. Not all held back images...

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OPEN ROUND 4, PRINTS, 4th MAY 2023
Posted on Fri 5 May 2023

This competition was judged by Chris Drury, St Albans CC, who was faced with 24 very good prints. He examined each print in detail and held back about 12 for further consideration and awarding places and highly commended and commended. No easy task. The final outcome was as follows:

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Israel through the Lens – Assaf Frank 27 April 2023
Posted on Fri 28 Apr 2023

This was probably a first for PSCC. We promoted Assaf's talk on local Facebook sites and managed to attract a good number of non members who contributed £55 to our accounts.

Assaf took us on a round trip of Israel from the rural farmland where he grew up with his parents helping to...

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Silverstone Classics -Terry Day 20 April 2023
Posted on Fri 21 Apr 2023

Terry, a self confessed 'motorhead', gave us an enthusiastic talk about the Silverstone Classics. This is a 3 day event savouring the very best of historic racing, vast displays of classic cars, during which one gets a chance to mingle amongst classic models Formula One, sports cars...

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Creative Cup Competition 30 March 2023 Judge Sarah Sands
Posted on Mon 17 Apr 2023

This year the committee decided to make this competition PDI only and not contribute marks towards the Photographer of the Year. It was felt that this might encourage members to be rather more experimental and to try and maximise creativity.

Sarah Sands was once more the judge for...

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PSCC OPEN ROUND 3 PRINTS-JUDGE MARK BUCKLEY-SHARP
Posted on Sun 26 Mar 2023

Another enjoyable evening with Mark, missed by three regular members who were otherwise committed. Mark gave very detailed comments on each print, always welcomed as it helps members to improve their photography. He left the decision on the placed and highly commended and commended prints until...

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Wildlife Cups 9 March 2023
Posted on Sun 12 Mar 2023

Having lost a few of the more 'specialised' wildlife photographers in the last couple of years the number of entries for this season's competition were rather disappointing. Nevertheless there were still many good images for our judge Andy Sands to consider for the evenings awards and...

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Panels Competition March 3rd
Posted on Fri 3 Mar 2023

This is a relatively new competition over the last couple of years for the club having been introduced to us and judged by our resident judge Dave Hipperson.

The rules were that between 5 and 15 images including the background could be arranged either as a panel...

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PSCC OPEN ROUND 3 PROJECTED IMAGES
Posted on Sun 26 Feb 2023

Unfortunately Amanda Wright, the booked judge, had to pull out at the very last minute because of illness. We were extremely lucky at such short notice to get Colin Southgate.

As always, his comments were fair and constructive. 20 of the 47 images were held back for further viewing...

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PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE EVENING 9 Feb 2023
Posted on Sun 12 Feb 2023

Organised and run by Jeremy and what an evening it turned out to be!

We had a good number of our members entering up to 20 images which were divided into groups of 5, and in the first session, members were divided randomly into pairs and instructed to comment on the...

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People's Cups Feb 2nd Judge Kevin Day
Posted on Sat 4 Feb 2023



Street photography to studio shots and everything in between were on display during our annual people competition.



Our judge for the evening was Kevin Day who had also judged our first print competition of the season. Kevin as well as being an...

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An evening with Andy Sands 26 Jan 2023
Posted on Fri 27 Jan 2023

From Slime Moulds to Hares and from Insects to Birds this was another brilliant talk from Andy. The fact that all of these images were shot during the last year is testament to both his skills as a photographer as well as his patience and perseverance. How many of us are willing to get up at 4 o...

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Landscape Cups Jan 5 2023
Posted on Sat 7 Jan 2023

Landscape Cups Jan 5 2023

Owing to a number of members being on vacation a small but select audience were present at the annual landscape competition judged on the evening by Rojer Weightman. There were 24 PDIs and 15 prints entered. Rojer an experienced judge, was very constructive...

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15th December 2022. Park Street Christmas Socia
Posted on Mon 2 Jan 2023

Unfortunately due to the icy cold weather and some people having flu we had to change the planned pub
visit to a zoom meeting.
It was a very amusing event. It was good to see Barbara there with her customary glass of whiskey on top
form challenging us all.
Everyone seemed to...

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ICELAND BY JEREMY FRASER-MITCHELL LRPS, 8 th December 2022
Posted on Sat 10 Dec 2022

A very cold winter's evening outside was appropriate and timely for Jeremy's excellent talk on his travels in Iceland earlier this year.

A map of Iceland indicating the route taken, predominately the west side of the island, together with places of interest was shown at the beginning. The...

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Open Prints Round 2
Posted on Wed 7 Dec 2022

Our open prints round 2 was judged by Paul Burwood who held back a few more prints that was needed, so members were kept on the edge of their seats until the final outcome was announced. Each print was commented in detail and some very useful comments made.

The results were:

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"THAT'S NOT A LANDSCAPE" 24th November 2022, Huw Alban (West Country)
Posted on Sun 27 Nov 2022

Another very interesting Zoom lecture, this time by Huw Alban. There was certainly a good selection of landscape images, but also plenty of outdoor images that probably would not necessarily be classified as landscape.

Clearly, Huw had a good eye for an interesting outdoor...

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PDI Open Round 2
Posted on Sun 20 Nov 2022

The open round 2 projected image competition was judged by Michael Lurie who made some very constructive comments on our images.

The results were:

First Place: Ropes Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell

Second place: Show me the way Assaf Frank

Third place:...

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OPEN ROUND 1 PDI
Posted on Sat 5 Nov 2022

This competition was very well judged by Mark Buckley-Sharp who provided useful comments on all the images. An enjoyable evening was had by all those able to attend.

The results were as follows:

1st Place The London Office Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell

2nd Place Desert...

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Changes for the 2022-23 Season
Posted on Thu 11 Aug 2022



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