Competition News
PDI Knock Out Contest – March (and April) 2019
This season the annual LBPC Digital Image Knock Out Contest started on Wednesday 6 March – and was subsequently completed on Wednesday 3 April! This competition is an incredibly cultured and refined event [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Hetitage’ – March 2019
The set subject, for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs), was “Heritage” to which the programme notes added – “The history, traditions, artefacts, practices etc, of a country, society, culture. Possibly ancient monuments [...]
League: Open 3 Competition Results – February 2019
The fifth internal club competition of the 2018-19 season took place on Wednesday 20 February. This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). The competition was judged by Martin Patten LRPS CPAGB BPE2*, a professional photographer based in Hertfordshire.
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Shadows’ – January 2019
This was a “themed” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). As usual, the entries displayed a wide variety of subjects, approaches and styles. The fourth internal club competition of the [...]
League: Open 2 Competition Results – November 2018
The third internal club competition of the 2018-19 season took place on Wednesday 21 November. This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs). As usual, the entries displayed a wide [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2018 Results
The UK judge for the 2018 Two Hemispheres competition was Colin Southgate FRPS from Barton-le-Clay. Colin is a member of Harpenden Photographic Society and is a regular visitor to LBPC. Having been involved [...]
League: Themed Competition Results ‘Natural Abstracts’ – October 2018
The second internal club competition of the 2018-19 season took place last Wednesday, 17 October 2018., with the set subject of “Natural Abstracts”. Our judge for this competition was Julia Cleaver ARPS – a portrait photographer based in the Chilterns and a member of ImageZ Camera Club (in Weston Turville).
League: Open 1 Competition Results – September 2018
The first internal club competition of the 2018-19 season took place on Wednesday 19 September. This was an “open” competition for both prints and projected digital images (PDIs).
Print and PDI of the Year Competition Results – June 2018
As the climax to the 2017-18 season, our annual Print and Digital Image of the Year competitions took place on Wednesday evening (6 June 2018). This year the two competitions were judged by Kathy Chantler ARPS (Secretary of the ImageZ Camera Club at Weston Turville). After completing the judging, Kathy said she had found it “really hard” and praised the high standard of the entries.
Biennial Landscape Trophy Competition Results – 2017/18
Last Wednesday evening (16 May 2018) members contested the Landscape Trophy. This is a biennial competition, sponsored by Barbara Fleming, to encourage more landscape work. It alternates with our other biennial competition, the Howard Morris Memorial Trophy for monochrome prints.
Two Hemispheres: 2017 Results
Details of the UK judge for the 2017 Two Hemispheres competition appear to have disappeared down a black hole. We do have the comments made by both judges, however. Each entry was [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2016 Results
The UK judge for the 2016 Two Hemispheres competition was Alan Taberer. Alan is one of the founders of the Imagez Camera Club in Weston Turville. Each entry was marked out of [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2015 Results
Sadly, the information for the UK judge presiding over the 2015 Two Hemispheres competition has been lost in the mists of time. We do have most of the comments from both judges, though. [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2014 Results
The UK judge for the 2014 Two Hemispheres competition was Colin Mill, a very experienced landscape photographer and member of New City Photographic Society in Milton Keynes. Colin has visited LBPC on a [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2013 Results
The UK judge for the 2013 Two Hemispheres competition was Peter Jackman. As well as being a long standing judge on the CACC circuit, Peter was a member of Princes Risborough Photographic Society [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2012 Results
The UK judge for the 2012 Two Hemispheres competition was Peter Prosser APAGB. Each entry was marked out of twenty. The top performers of the UK judging are presented below: If you [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2011 Results
The UK judge for the 2011 Two Hemispheres competition was Chris King. We no longer have the scores for individual images, either from LBPC or CCC, but we do have the images and [...]
Two Hemispheres: 2010 Results
The UK judge for the 2011 Two Hemispheres competition was Stan McCartin. We no longer have the scores for individual images, either from LBPC or CCC, but we do have the images. Unusually, [...]
Guest Speakers
John Curd – Tales of the Bee Bank
Through the various lockdowns of 2021, John “maintained a modicum of sanity” by learning about and photographing “solitary” bees and wasps at and around a natural sandbank in Rushmere. In the [...]
Colin Jarvis – Mono Moods
Colin runs single day and residential workshops around the UK, as well as providing one-to-one photography tuition and post-processing tuition, for photographers of all levels More of Colin’s images, and details of his workshops [...]
Robert Harvey – Small is Beautiful
More of Robert’s work can be found at http://www.naturalworldphotography.net He would be very pleased for members to Join his group Inspirational Outdoor Photography on Facebook: facebook.com/groups/InspirationalOutdoorPix where you can post your own recent images [...]
Lizzie Shepherd – Mood Versus Composition
More of Lizzie’s work can be found at http://www.lizzieshepherd.com She is also Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LizzieShepherdPhotography And she is on Instagram and Twitter. Lizzie is a member of the judging panel for the [...]
Robert Friel – Phoneography
More of Robert’s work, including his ARPS images, can be found on his website at http://robfriel.co.uk/ He is also on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Robert is the Chair of Princes Risborough [...]
Damon Guy – Breaking the Rules
The photography website that Damon runs can be found at http://www.photokonnexion.com/ Damon’s talk was about the conventions that help us compose pictures. His aims were to get us thinking about the [...]