The 2018-19 Season Panel Competitions with Prints and PDIs has been judged by Dave Stewart. We had 22 PDI Panel entries and was won by Nigel Gardner with ' Victorians'. 2nd. was 'Autumn Trees' also from Nigel Gardner. 3rd. was 'Living Colours' from Di Burns. Highley commended 'Rockart Stratifications' from Ian Haskell. Commended 'Dragonflys' from Colin Bradshaw and 'Hoverflies' from Stuart Ball. We also had 14 Print Panel Entries and was won by Ian Haskell with 'Woodland Impressions' . 2nd. was 'Bamboo Time Chendu' from Judy Hodgson. 3rd. was 'Symmetry' from Gary Goodacre.

The Comp. 3 PDIs was a successful night with 65 entries from 22 members. The Judge was David Graham and he gave 2 top 20 scores. These were to Judy Hodgson with 'Walking the Terraces' from China and to Ashley Fure with 'Space Walking Stone Chat' as Natural History. The top 20 pictures and the the full results are now on our web-site

The Comp. 2 Prints was judged by Paul Nickerson and out of 54 entries he gave 25 a top 20 score. These were for Colin Bradshaw, Di Burns, David Hodgson,Peter Malton, Graham Scarbro, Duncan Kirkwood, Jayne Riley, Fred Ayley, Mike Burns, Judy Hodgson, Mike Porter, Brian Young, Michael Jarman and Neil Malton. Colin Bradshaw and Di Burns also got all of there 3 prints with a top 20 and the judge said his best one was 'Sad Memories' from Colin Bradshaw. The full set of scores is also included and 23 top 20 scores are also on the web-site.

The first internal competition of the 2018-19 season took place on Tuesday 25th September and was judged by Dave Stewart. A total of 62 images were submitted by 21 members. The following table shows the scores received by each member and the total for their best two. Congratulations to Judy Hodgson, Ian Haskell and Duncan Kirkwood who were awarded the maximum score of 20 for images they submitted and to Judy for the highest total.

Our rules for Projected Digital Images (PDI), submitted to internal or external competitions, have previously specified that they should be sized to 1400x1050 pixels. However, the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) and their associated federations, including North & East Midlands Photographic Federation (N&EMPF) to which we are affiliated, have adopted a new, larger size: 1600x1200 pixels. If we wish to submit images submitted to our internal competitions to any external event, they are going to have to conform to the new specifications.