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Welcome to Issue 31 of e-news
A “Warwick” Special about the Inter-Club PDI Championship
at Warwick University on Saturday 17 July 2010
The full club scores for every round will be included in the next issue of e-news – coming very soon.
The Champiion Cllub 2010
Winner of the Darwin Clayton Trophy and a PAGB Gold Medal
Smetthwiick Phottographiic Sociietty
GB CUP UPDATE
The DVDs for the 2010 GB Cup competitions are nearly finished and will be
distributed to participating clubs and to others who have ordered copies before 1
September 2010. There are two DVDs. One for the GB Cup (Open) and another for
the GB Cup (Small Clubs), both also include the GB Cup (Nature) and each will fill a
club evening. If your club did not enter but you would like a copy anyhow, these will
be available for a donation of £12. rod@creative-camera.co.uk for details.

THE SECOND INTER-CLUB PDI CHAMPIONSHIP
If 2009 was the year of the Great Grey Owl then 2010 was surely the
year of the misty landscape. Landscapes often seem to fare quite poorly
in this sort of competition but our experienced judging panel, Malcolm Kus,
Chris Palmer and Peter Rees were not disinclined to award good marks.
A large crowd enjoyed an excellent day. The pictures were superb, the quality of the
projection was first class and, apart from one small computer glitch, the organisation was
faultless. The judges worked very efficiently and even the raffle was something special.
Smethwick triumphed over defending champions Wigan 10 by a single point on the very
last picture and the same narrow margin decided the plate competition in favour of
Worksop & Dist who successfully held off a late charge by Dundee.
The Champion Club
Winner of the Darwin Clayton Trophy and a PAGB Gold Medal Smethwick P. S. – MCPF
The Second place Club – Awarded a PAGB Silver Medal Wigan 10 F. C. – L&CPU
The Third placed Club – Awarded a PAGB Silver Medal Dumfries Camera Club - SPF
The Fourth placed Club – Awarded a PAGB Silver Medal Amersham P. S. - CACC

The Plate Competition
Winner of the Don Morrison Plate & a PAGB Silver Medal Worksop & Dist. P. S. – N&EMPF
The Best Image in the Championship Winner of the Practical Photography Trophy and a PAGB Gold Medal
The Keeper by Roger Parry of Smethwick P. S.
Chris Palmer chose Peregrine Falcon with Kill by Peter Gennard of Smethwick P.S.
Malcolm Kus chose Whippet Race by Roy Rimmer of Wigan 10 F.C.

The 2010 rule changes mean that all of the
Finalists this year are automatically qualified for
the 2011 competition in addition to the two clubs
nominated by each Federation.
5th The Beyond Group (EAF)
6th Norfolk P.G. (EAF)
7th Oxford P.S. (CACC)
8th Worcestershire C.C. (MCPF)
All these clubs receive a PAGB Ribbon and are
invited to compete in the 2011 PDI Championship.
Peter Rees chose
Gannet Flight
by Charles McCartney of Dundee P.S.
The full club scores for every round will be included in the next issue of e-news – coming soon.
If you missed the PDI Championship - or if you were there and enjoyed it - don’t miss the
PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship
at Connah’s Quay, Flintshire on Sat 23 Oct 2010
Look out for more information in later issues of e-news
The Welsh Photographic Federation Convention at Lampeter
3–5 September 2010
Roger Parry ARPS AFIAP HonPAGB & Judith Parry DPAGB HonPAGB
Margery Maskell ARPS EFIAP/b MPAGB BPE4* & Kevin Maskell FRPS EFIAP/b MPAGB BPE4*.
Margaret Collis Hon EFIAP, APAGB, DPAGB, ARPS
Dianne Owen FRPS
Graham Sergeant FRPS
Trade stands by Colour Confidence, Jacobs and Fotocall.
The full weekend including B&B on Friday night, two days Full Board and all presentations costs only £135.
This includes a £5 discount for booking before 31st July. For booking form and further details visit
http://www.thewpf.co.uk
The PDI Championship is generously sponsored by
Darwin Clayton (UK) Ltd
and
FOTOSPEED

AUSTRALIA CALLING
Carol Beckham and her husband Barry were members of
Dagenham C.C. before moving to Australia. Judges there
are in short supply and they are looking for volunteers to
help out their new club, Noosa P.C. in Queensland.
Carol says “What would happen is that we would collate
all the digital images and zip them for the judge to pick up
and what we would like is for either recorded commentary
on each image with a score out of say 15 or if the judge
does not do his own commentary, then the comments of
each digital image on a word document. So that when we
get them sent back (well the critique anyway) we can then
record the judges comments word for word and put them
with the images on a Pictures To Exe slide show which
we would then show each month at our club meetings.
This idea works extremely well for other clubs in
Australia and we are thinking of doing the same. (We are
also in the process of doing a recorded lecture on CD
for clubs to run on a club evening on Digital Audio Visual
so if you would be interested in letting us send you a disk
so you can see what we are doing over here then we
would be pleased to do that for you.)
Your help would be gratefully received”. Carol Beckham
Please make direct contact with
carol@beckhamdigital.co.uk
NORTHER COUNTIES
INTERNATIONAL SALON OF
PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
The closing date for the 31st NCPF
Exhibition is 20 August 2010 The
exhibition has FIAP, PSA and RPS
patronage and there are sections for
Prints, PDI and Slides. Rules, fees
plus downloadable entry forms from
http://www.ncpf.org.uk
The RPS International Projected
Image Exhibition closes 12 Aug
2010 and will be shown on
Sun 24 October 2010 at the Craig y
Don Community Centre, Llandudno
More info at http://www.rps.org
Why not make a weekend of it in
North Wales with the PAGB Inter-Club
Print Championship on Sat 23 Oct 2010
Watch out for further information in a
later issue of e-news
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