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PAGB Great British Cup

The Great British Cup, organised by the PAGB for projected Digital Images (PDI), was due to be judged this last weekend (9th/10th January) and whilst the Small Clubs and Open Sections were completed, the weather got in the way a bit and the the Nature Section has yet to be completed.

Northallerton entered both the Open Section and the Nature Section. In the Open Section out of over 90 competing clubs Northallerton came 31st with 173 points. The winners were once again Wigan 10. In this section our top scorers were two images which each gained 12 points (out of a maximum of 15); "Bursting Through" by Steve Byard and "Abandoned!" by Dave Coates.

In the Nature Section a total of 77 clubs took part; we scored 119 points which just left us outside the top twenty clubs (20th scored 121). Chris Morton with "Red Deer Stag" and Sandy Furniss with Heron in Mangrove Swamp" were our top scorers, each with 13 points. Oh! and yes it was Wigan 10 that won the cup, again!

February 2010

Northallerton Represent the NCPF at Connah's Quay

Three of our members, including our Vice-Chairman travelled to Connah's Quay in North Wales last saturday (24th October) with our Club's entry into the PAGB Print Club Championship. Together with Sunderland PA, we were representing the Fedration at the event, in our case for the third time in recent years. A total of 34 clubs from throughout the United Kingdon took part.

In the First Round we submitted the 12 prints chosen by the club and scored 141 points out of a possible 180. Whilst we ended up joint 14th, remarkedly the same score as Sunderland, we fell only 8 points short of eight place which would have qualified us for the Final Round. In the Plate Competition, for those clubs that do not reach the Fianl Round, we scored 61 with our 5 prints and again finished in the middle of the field. The Championship was won by Wigan 10 after a tie-break round with Smthwick PS.

Three of our members succeeded in gaining scores of 13 (out of 15):

Steve Byard with "About to Turn"

Dave Coates with "Sunset on the Salt Pans" and "Hard Times" and

John Webster with "Rufus Naped Lark"

Our congratulations go to them, but also to evereyone else who contributed prints to our entry, whether or not we were able to use them or not. It is only with such support that we were able to put up such a creditable performance both for our club and for the Federation.

October 2009

Members' Results from the Northern Counties International Salon

A total of eight members of our club submitted entries into the 30th Northern Counties International Salon of Photography. The Salon attracted over 6,300 entries from 42 countries world wide. With only about one in five entries accepted into the Exhibition, all eight came away with some success, collecting a total of 25 acceptances and three awards overall.

Steve Byard received 2 acceptances, 1 each in the Colour Prints and Photo-Travel PI Sections.

Henrietta Byrne received 2 acceptances in the General PI Section.

Dave Coates received 9 acceptances, with 3 each in the Monochrome Prints, Colour Prints and Photo-Travel PI Sections.

Sheila Coates received 1 acceptance in the Colour Print Section.

Gordon Follows received 2 acceptances Nature PI Section.

Sandy Furniss received 2 acceptances, 1 each in the Nature PI and the Photo-Travel PI Sections.

Chris Morton received 4 acceptances, 2 each in the General PI and Nature PI Sections.

John Webster received 3 acceptances, with 2 in Colour Prints and a third in the Photo-Travel PI Section.

Special congratulations though go to Henrietta Byrne and Sheila Coates for sharing three awards between them. Henrietta was awarded the Northumbria Trophy for the best NCPF entry in the Genral PI Section with "Tree on Rannoch Moor" and a Certificate of Merit in the same section for her "Sunrise at Blackmount". Sheila was also awarded a Certificate of Merit for her Colour Print "Mist and Decay".

Definitely a year for the ladies; well done to them and also to the rest of our entrants.

For the full results from the Colour Prints and Monochrome Sections of the salon visit the NCPF web site at "Northern Counties Photographic Federation"

October 2009