PAGB Inter Club DPI Ch 2012 - WARWICK

PAGB Inter Club DPI

Championship 2012
Sponsored by Darwin Clayton (UK) Ltd & Permajet Ltd.

held at Warwick University
Saturday14th July  2012

Judges: Colin Harrison FRPS,MFIAP,MPAGB,FBPE,FIPF,EFIAP/s
                Bob Moore Hon FRPS,MPAGB,Hon PAGB

                David Wheeler FRPS,MFIAP,EFIAP/p,DPAGB

 

On Saturday the two clubs representing The WPF made history.  Inn Focus scored really well in the first two rounds with a total of 203 for 16 images. To put this in perspective Wigan 10 the eventual trophy winners (again) scored 208. The final Trophy rounds which needed another 20 images (10 could be from the earlier rounds but 10 had to be new) gave them a final score of 246 for these images whereas Wigan 10 scored a total of 267 to take the trophy.

The final results for the 8 clubs qualifying for the final round were;

Rolls-Royce Derby  – 8th with 236 points

Inn Focus  WPF  – Joint 5th 246 points

Cannock PS Mid.Counties

Leek PC          Mid Counties

Plymouth CC   4th with 247 points

Smethwick PS   3rd with 258 points

Amersham PS   2nd with 259 points

Wigan 10  – 1st with a score of 267.  Well done to them.

Inn Focus was the first Welsh Club to qualify for the final and many, many  congratulations to them.

They qualify by right for the competition next year and now have 12 months to find a greater depth of work to challenge for the top spot.  (40 images is a lot for a small club to find.)

Tenby did not get through to the final Trophy –  they scored 195 and were just pipped for the final place but they did go into the Plate competition . Last year Gwynfa jointly won this Plate but were asked to have a play off,  and lost it by one mark.  This year, however, Tenby won the Plate outright with 106 points. The final scores were;

3rd  Cambridge CC  with 103

2nd Newton Abbot PC  104

And 1st  Tenby CC with 106.

So many congratulations to Tenby also.  Remember, that they also won the plate for the Inter-Club Pint competition at Connah`s Quay last year.

It was a brilliant day for the WPF clubs.  It was a marvellous competition and the work entered by all clubs was absolutely wonderful and very inspiring.  There were 8 members from Tenby 6 members from Inn Focus and Ed & I went along to support both clubs.  Roy Thomas was also there as one of the competition  organisers.
We recommend that every club sends someone to this event so that they can see the standard of work required for these competitions.

There was a maximum possible of 15 points that could be scored for each image . The 1st 2  rounds consists of eight images from each of the 38 clubs. No more than 2 images per author & no more than 2 NH images in first 2 rounds. The scores from these 2 rounds are added together and the top 8 highest scoring clubs contest the final, the remaining clubs contest the Plate Competition. The Plats: 8 images from each club which 4 may have been used before, no more than 2 per person and only 2 NH images. 

 

The 8 images we had put forward in the 1^st round were,

RED LACES                                Roy Packer               9

EMERALD DAMSELFLY                Paul Richards           10

EAST WIND                               Jill Baxter                13

SALLY & FRANK                         Gill Mackay              13

SANDERLING RUNNING              Andrew Baxter         13

LEATHER ON WILLOW                Susan Mckehon        13

THE BIG SPLASH                        Roy Packer              12

GATHERING                               Jill Baxter                15

 

The 8 images we had put forward in the ^2nd round were,

DESTINATION UNKNOWN             Susan Mckehon       14

CONFRONTATION                         Andrew Baxter        13

PIED FLYCATCHERS                      Paul Richards          12

DON'T LOOK BACK                        Jill Baxter               15

KITE SURFER                               Mike Cullis              10

RED                                            Jill Baxter                13

SINGALONG                                 Andrew Baxter        10

WATCH THE BALL                         Susan Mckehon       10

 

So we were in the Plate, all points scored to date counted for nothing and Jill Baxter had to select a further 5 images for the deciding round. It became apparent that the judges didn’t favour creative work or studio portraits however straight sports images were getting high marks.

 

After much deliberation and soul searching the following were chosen to challenge for the plate:

 

SALLY & FRANK                        Gill Mackay               13

GATHERING                             Jill Baxter                 15

REFLECTIVE MOMENT              Andrew Baxter           12

DESTINATION UNKNOWN        Sue McKehon             14

DON'T LOOK BACK                   Jill Baxter                  15

HOT TANGO                            Roy Packer                13

FLIGHT HOME                         Paul Richards             13

BERT                                      Gill Mackay                11