More Good News for Stokesley PS

NCPF Inter Club Championships

Once again, Stokesley Photographic Society had a good day at Washington this weekend. At the end of the final in the Print section, we were joint 1st with Northallerton. Sadly in the tie-break, no matter what the quality, our 5 home-grown prints were never going to beat Northallerton's 5 from exotic locations around the world (am I becoming cynical but there is something about flashy foreign birds that causes judges' collective knees to tremble). However, taking 2nd place means that we will once more be going down to Connagh's Quay in the autumn for the National championships. In the Projected Images section, things were a bit more clear cut and despite leading at the half-way stage, we lost by a couple of marks, once more to Northallerton. However, this still means that we will be representing the NCPF in the summer in the National PDI championships in Warwick. On an individual note, congratulations to Paul W Forster whose print of Winter Trees (remember it from the recent Peter Denham competition?) was adjudged the best over all monochrome print on the day

Great British Cup

In this annual national inter-club competition, Stokesley entered the Open section (to all intents, the "advanced" group) and came 22nd out of 109 clubs. Such was the closeness at the top that one other measly mark on top of our 163 would have placed us in the top 20 and two would have given us 15th place. For those of you who are interested, Northallerton were well below us with only 159 marks.

In the Nature section we were less successful but still managed 36th place out of 97 clubs.

Congratulations and many thanks to all who supplied me with photographs for these various competitions. Allow yourselves to bask in the warm glow of our success while it lasts!

John