OPS v Rotorua Camera Club, New Zealand the return match.

[Alan Graham]

Last March saw the inaugural PDI competition between OPS and Rotoura Camera Club from New Zealand. We only lost by 5 marks but we did take Best Image and were also awarded another 20/20 (Honours) and one 19/20 (Highly Commended). For those of you who missed the results evening you can see the images on our website here.

This season we are the virtual ‘away’ team. RCC are running the competition and finding the independent judge.

Last year we only had 8 members per side. This year there will be 16. That means every member of OPS who submitted to round 1 of the PDI 1 competition or has scored a certificate in the SLF PDI competition will be entered:

Peter Humphrey ARPS  
Neil Hobday                    
Alan Graham LRPS        
Alan Parkinson               
David Barnes LRPS       
Barrie Duffield LRPS      
Tracy Elvidge LRPS       
Chris Nash                     
Yicheng Lu                      
Richard Waterman          
David Grimwade LRPS   
Bob Mabberley                
Martin Adams                  
David Jackson                 
Chris Sawyer    
Malcolm Ming

Ideally we want you to submit your best image. Remember these are PDI images and if a judge mentioned a slight change to improve them you should consider doing so. The selection committee may also make suggestions.

I will announce the sizing and naming convention when RCC send me details. They do have a larger PDI format.

Please start looking at which image you would like to submit plus a reserve ready for us to consider. I will say where to send them when I get the sizing from RCC.

I will need to send our images to NZ by late January. We hope to have the competition images and result shown during our meeting on 21st March 2017.

To give you a flavour of what we might be up against here is a link to their images that won Honours this season. Don't panic…

[Alan Graham]

The link to the RCC Honours pages seems not to work. It will take you to their website, just click on the Gallery tab.

[Alan Graham]

The images and results for the Rotorua Camera Club v OPS competition were revealed tonight. Twice the number of members took part than last year.

Rotorua won again but by a slightly less margin with our top 8 entries scoring more than theirs. Encouraging I hope.

All 32 images can be seen on the website under Galleries/InterClub/Rotorua 2017

Four members from both clubs were awarded certificates. The OPS members were:

Yicheng Lu               'Long Journey'   Highly Commended
Alan Graham LRPS   'I'm Watching'    Highly Commended

Neil Hobday             'Innocence 2'     Commended
Malcolm Ming           'Yes You!!'         Commended

Next years competition is hoped to take place as part of our 70th celebrations in March 2018.

[Alan Graham]

Here are the individual scores from the judge. Comments can be given in person at a later date....

RR_V_OPS_2017_Results.pdf

Yicheng & Malcolm, I have your certificates and will bring them along to the finals meetings.

[Chris Sawyer]

Thanks very much to Alan for running this competition for a 2nd year.  It's now 2-0 to the Kiwis.  Is there nothing we can beat them at?