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Monthly Image Competition Announced...

A brand new monthly photographic image competition, born in the white heat of the recent Open Forum and now available for every single member to enjoy.

  • The competition will open on the first of each month and will close on the 24th of the month.

  • Each month the judge will select his/her personal pick and will give a few words explaining their choice.

  • The winner will choose the next theme AND be the next judge..!

  • There are absolutely no prizes but the winning image will be displayed on the website together with a gallery of that months entries.

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Norwich & District Photographic Society looks forward to an exciting new Season

At this time of the year the members of the Society are normally pre-occupied with staging their Annual Exhibition at Norwich Cathedral and looking forward to welcoming an influx of new members who have in recent years turned up during the first weeks of September as the new Season begins. In the past three years alone, the Society has grown by more than a third and last season reached a peak of eighty members.

Covid-19 means that during the past months the Society has been forced to change but we continue to innovate and despite all the difficulties we look forward with excitement to our new season which opens on Tuesday 1st September with an online illustrated photo-talk from the very talented Bilbao born photographer Iñaki Hernández-Lasa, FRPS - FIPF – AFIAP who is now living in Ireland.

When on the 16th March the Prime Minister announced the first measures to combat the pandemic the third time in just over 100 years our Society could not meet as a group - two world wars and now a pandemic – but we were determined to bounce back strongly...!

Our first action was to appoint a small steering sub-committee with the brief to keep the members connected with one another and to steer the Society through these difficult times. This In Focus team, each chosen for their particular skills, met immediately and took the view that the pandemic was an opportunity to take the Society in new directions and allow the members to take part in events that previously had not seemed possible.

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Covid 19 - Weekly Friendly Photo-competition, Week Nine Results

Two images jointly received the most LIKES in Round Nine of the competition. The first was GROWTH by Dave Jordan and the second CALOPTERYX SPLENDENS - GREEN BANDED DEMOISELLE (DAMSELFLY) by Maurice Young in third place was PINEAPPLE by Joan Jordan

Many congratulations to Dave and Maurice whose images now goes forward to the FINAL when the weekly rounds come to an end after the TWELFTH week of the competition. We shall however, start a new competition starting in week THIRTEEN. The details of the new competition will be announced shortly.

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Covid 19 - Weekly Friendly Photo-competition, Week Eight Results

The image that received the most LIKES in Round Eight of the competition was EVENING LIGHT by Keith Galliford, in joint second place were LOOKING UP IS EXERCISE by Robin Myerscough, and YOUNG HARE WHO DEFINITELY KNOWS I’M THERE by Maurice Young

Many congratulations to Keith whose image won by a mile and now goes forward to the FINAL when the weekly rounds come to an end after the TWELETH week of the competition. We shall howver, start a new competition starting in week THIRTEEN. The details of the new competition will be announced shortly.

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Covid 19 - Weekly Friendly Photo-competition, Week Seven Results

The image that received the most LIKES in Round Seven of the competition was PERFUME by Simon Ciappara, in joint second place were GONE WITH THE WIND by Dennis Hales, BLEAK HOUSE by Tom Watson, annd THE BLACK DAHLIA by Neil Hall

Congratulations to Simon whose image goes forward to the FINAL when the weekly rounds come to an end after the TWELETH week of the competition. WE shall howver, start a new competition starting in week THIRTEEN. The details of the new competition will be announced shortly.

Congratulations to Robert Bilbie who correctly identified all the ‘caharades’ and wins a bottle of wine.
1 - Penny Lane by Bill Daniels

2 - Vanishing Point by David Jordan

3 - Gone with the Wind by Dennis Hales

4 - The Thin Red Line by Joan Jordan

5 - Eyes of the Forest by Maurice Young

6 - The Black Dahlia by Neil Hall

7 - The King and I by Paul Cowcher

8 - The Thirty-nine Steps by Paul oliver

9 - Under Milk Wood by Robin Myerscough

10 - Perfume by Simon Ciappara

11 - Revenge of the Sith by Stuart Woodcock

12 - Network by Sue Badger

13 - Bleak House by Tom Watson

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The results of this season’s Photographer of the Year competition are announced...

In what turned out to be a very close finish to this season’s POTY competition just one-point separated the top four photographers after the five rounds had been concluded.

Congratulations to Neil Hall who retains the trophy he won last year with an aggregate 74 points for his best four rounds just half a point ahead of Gary Hagg with 73.5 points with both Nick Lewis and Maurice Young both with 73 points. Nick, however, took third place on count-back with Maurice fourth overall.

The result means that all four photographer scored an average of more than 9 points out of a possible 10 for the eight images that counted towards their total in the competition.

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Covid 19 - Weekly Friendly Photo-competition, Week Five Results

The image that received the most LIKES in Round FIVE of the competition was Image A – DANDELION SEED HEADS by Sue Badger, in second place was Image P – RIOJA BOTTLE by Bill Daniels with Image K – FENDER STRATOCASTER by Joss Sibbering in third place.

Congratulations to Sue whose image goes forward to the FINAL when the weekly rounds come to an end after the Government’s current 'lock-down' measures are relaxed.

Bill Daniels also correctly identified more of the objects photographed than anyone else who sent in an email containing their guesses and wins a bottle of wine. No doubt a bottle of Rioja would be appropriate...!

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Open Public Competition 2019 - Review

When Norwich & District Photographic Society decided last year to hold an Open Public Competition for the first time everyone involved was a little apprehensive because we had no idea what the response would be. Quickly it became clear that there was no reason for our concern as photographers throughout East Anglia and in some caes far beyond started to post images on our Facebook page. The outcome was so succesful and the quality of the images submitted so good we decided not only to make the competition an annual event but to add this year a junior category.

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