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Here are the results from the 'Boys v. Girls' Competition which was cancelled in December owing to the weather conditions. A competition for fun but with a 'spiky' edge!

Results, when the 'Boys' won, came as a bit of a shock for the 'Girls' who'd won in the previous comeptitions. It was a very close call, though, with the 'Boys scoring 325 points and the 'Girls' 324 points.
Our judge was Diane Owen, of Chorley PS, who had been kind enough to forward the scores to us when the competition was cancelled.

The images gaining the highest scores are shown here:

Jean Neville .......... Brown Bear Chasing Fish (20)
Bill Nairn .......... Cloudman (20)
Sue Heaton .......... Common Blue (20) and Forces' Sweetheart (20)
Mike Heaton .......... Blue Tit (19)
Mike Heaton .......... Jade (18)
Keith Hughes .......... Pink Passenger (18) and Sea Drenched Steps (18)
Michael Spillane .......... Red-veined darter, immature male (18)
Sue Heaton .......... Still Warm (18)

This was the first of our Bi-Annual Competitions for PDIs and Prints. The judge was Geoff Robinson from North Cheshire PS (see Monthly News Page)

Digitally Projected Images scoring 19 or higher:

Peter Eaton ......... Free Spirits (20 + 2 for Judge's choice)
Alan Ross ......... Musical Eggstravaganza (20)
Mike Heaton ......... Blue Tit (20)
Bill Nairn ......... Drying Out (20)
Keith Hughes ......... Sea-Drenched Steps (20), Smile For Mummy (20) and Walk on a Windy Pier (20)
Sylvia Hughes ......... Mutton Sandwich (20)
Jean Neville ......... Snowy Egret (head) (19.5)
Sylvia Hughes ......... Part of the Scene (19)
Bill Nairn ......... Out of the Race (19)
Helen Spillane ......... Orchid - Orchis Coriophora (19)
Mike Heaton ......... Arctic Tern (19) and Painted Lady (19)
Myra Barr ......... Shaggy Ink Cap (19) and Steam Engine (19)
Norman Piper ......... Vaulted Ceiling (19)
Peter Eaton ......... Ah've 'ad enough (19), In the Studio (19) and Let's Jive (19)
Sue Heaton ......... Great Spotted Woodpecker (19)

Prints scoring 19 or higher:

Sue Heaton ......... Stable Mates (20 + 2 for Judge's choice) and Into the Wind (20)
Des Barr ......... Early Morning Light (20)
Jean Neville ......... Shining on the Righteous (20)
Peter Eaton ......... Gothic Arches (20)
Myra Barr ......... Cottage at Llanwrst (19.5)
Norman Piper ......... Borage #3 (19.5)
Mike Heaton ......... Small White (19)
Sue Heaton ......... A Study in Blue and Yellow (19)
Alan Ross ......... One Last Fag (19)
Jean Neville ......... Little Egret (19) and Alerted Red Squirrel (19)
Bill Nairn ......... Attention! (19), Evening Light (19) and Approaching Storm (19)
Keith Hughes ......... Early Risers (19), Free Riders (19) and Golden Meadows of Swaledale (19)
Sylvia Hughes ......... Formby Foreshore (19)

(Some Images still to come)

Once again SLIC took an entry to North Cheshire PS to enter their 'Knockout Challenge', held during their Exhibition week. Always a popular competition, 30 clubs from around the region, and as far away as Sheffield and Keswick, entered. The judge was Mike NcNamee, BSc FRPS FBPPA.

In the competition, the pictures 'knocked out' in the first round scored 1 point, in the second round 2, and so on. Each club entered 5 images so there were 150 in total. There were just 16 pictures left to go into the 4th round and fight it out for the honours!

In the final results, SLIC came joint 9th with Atherton & District PS. The winning club was Wigan 10 Foto Club followed by Hoylake PS in second place. The winning image of the night was 'Cheetah Kill' by Austin Thomas, a member of Wigan 10.

In the competition SLIC lost 2 pictures in the second round and 3 in the third. SLIC's entry was:

Alter Ego by Maureen Glynn	Spellbound by Joan Blease	Forces' Sweetheart by Sue Heaton	Coal Tit by Mike Heaton	Autumn Stroll by Bill Nairn

Full scores on the NCPS website, HERE showing the number of images, from each club, eliminated in each round and each club's final score and position.

Norman Piper has successes to report in several salons in the Colour Projected Images Divison (CPID) of the PSA.

Here are his latest salon acceptances:

Borage	Hannah Hambleton 2	Past and Present Glories	Salford Shapes	White Lady

Slightly differently, for SLIC, we had an entry in this year's L&CPU Annual AV competition.
This year it was held at Croston and was judged by Jack Byatt.
We had just one entry, The Peak Forest Canal - an Introduction, by Sheila Goodyear, which gained a Commendation.

A few images from the sequence :

Portland Basin, Ashton-u-Lyne	Bugsworth Basin, Derbyshire	Old Limestone Quarry	The Railway Age overtakes the Canal Age	Top Lock, Marple	The Upper Peak Forest Canal

Norman Piper has successes to report in several salons in the Colour Projected Images Divison (CPID) of the PSA.

Ridgewood International

 Norman had acceptances with:

Hannah Hambleton #2, Alice and Friend and Merlin #3 (Honorable Mention)

Visit the website for full results HERE:  

Oklahoma

Norman had acceptances with:

Alice and Friend and Pikeman #3

Visit the website for full results HERE:

Coachella Valley

 Norman had acceptances with:

Eight Views, Imperial War Museum, Merlin #3 (Honorable Mention), Past and Present Glories, Salford Shapes #1 and Water Mill

Visit the website for full results  HERE

Everglades

 Norman had acceptances with: 

Borage #3 and Sarah

Visit the website for full results HERE:

Here are the successful images:

Hannah Hambleton #2	Alice and Friend	Merlin #3 Honorable Mention	Pikeman #3

Eight Views, Imperial War Museum	Past and Present Glories	Salford Shapes #1	Water Mill	Borage #3	Sarah

More salon successes to record ........ Jean Neville had acceptances in the Vale of Evesham Photo 2011 Salon, the results of which were announced this month. (This salon has BPE and PAGB Patronage)

Jean had acceptances with:
White Ibis Feeding (Natural History)
Brown Bears Resting (Natural History)
Boats at Dusk (Colour)

Jean's images:

White Ibis Feeding	Brown Bears Resting	Boats at Dusk

See all the results at the Photo2011 website, HERE

On May 24th SLIC had an entry in the Ted Colman Memorial Competition at Rochdale & District CC. 14 clubs took part. It was judged by Colin Douglas from St Helens.
This is a competition with a bit of a twist! There are 3 rounds + a 'head to head' finish. From a 'Bank' of 13 images, each club puts 4 images into the 1st round. At the end of that round, the lower scoring clubs are eliminated. The scores are 'wiped clean' as the remaining clubs go into the 2nd round, at the end of which the lower scoring clubs are again eliminated leaving just 8 clubs to go into the 3rd and final round. At the end of this round the 2 clubs with the highest scores will each project 1 last image and the winner of this 'head to head' is the winning club.

Field the entries in the wrong order, and you go out in the first round, even if you have a stunning collection of images still in the 'Bank'!

It results in a competition that keeps you involved up to the last minute and was great fun! (We didn't win, but we did go into the third round of clubs). Congratulations to Huddersfield Photo-Imaging Club finally took the trophy.

Here is our entry:

Round 1
Borage#3 by Norman Piper
River Rodlesworth by Des Barr
Forces' Sweetheart by Sue Heaton
Pierrots by Sheila Goodyear

Round 2
Dance Macabre by Peter Eaton
Church in the Mist by Keith Hughes
Boys Will Be ...... by Maureen Glynn
Mating Common Frogs by Michael Spillane (This image received a 20 from the judge)

Round 3
Cloud Man by Bill Nairn
Goldfinches by Mike Heaton
Winter by Helen Spillane
Geranium by Michael Spillane

For the Head to Head:
Flight by Sue Heaton

More success for Norman Piper! He has had acceptances in the 44th E.A. International Salon of Photography 2011 (PSA & FIAP), Hong Kong, with Borage #3 and Firefighters.

Visit the Salon website HERE

and also acceptances in the Arctic Exhibition, (PSA & FIAP) with Hannah Hambleton #2 and Racer,

Visit the Salon website HERE

Results from the Trierenberg Super Circuit (AFIAP and PSA) have been sent out and both Sue and Mike Heaton have had acceptances.

Sue had 16 natural history and 7 colour acceptances over the four salons in the circuit.
The images with acceptances were:
Colour acceptances : Forces' Sweetheart and Renaissance.
Natural History : Common Blue Butterflies, Great Spotted Woodpecker #3, Nuthatch and Greenfinch

Mike had 12 natural history and 6 colour acceptances over the four salons in the circuit.
The images with acceptances were:
Colour acceptances : Afternoon Tea and Watching
Natural History : Artic Tern, Coal Tit, Male Reed Bunting and Small White

Visit the Salon website HERE

May
2011

The results of the L&CPU Annual Competitions have been sent out.

Our results this year are a little disappointing as we usually have a couple of certificates to get excited about but this year we didn't!

However, 3 colour prints were retained for the folios, and 10 images gained a score of 11 or 12.

Colour Prints retained for folio:

Sheila Goodyear : Pierrots (12) and Winter Woodland (11)
Sue Heaton : Forces Sweetheart (12)

Prints selected to hang in L&CPU Exhibtion at Astley Hall:

Sheila Goodyear : Pierrots
Sue Heaton : Forces Sweetheart

Other images scoring 11 or 12 points:

Sue Heaton : Renaissance (colour print 11), Flight (general projected 12)
Mike Heaton : Nuthatch (natural history print 11), Great Spotted Woodpecker 3 (natural history projected 11)
Michael Spillane : Red Legged Partridge (natural history projected 11)
Verna Piper : Blacksmith #1 (general projected 11)
Norman Piper : Fish (general projected 11)

Des Barr had acceptances in the Beyond Group 4th National Exhibition (BPE) with:

Mono : It`s Grim up North
Colour : Seilebost Beach, Harris.

Visit the website for more information HERE

This month's meeting saw SLIC's Half Yearly Print and Projected images competition. Judged by John Riley from ADAPS.
More on the News Page, HERE

Digitally Projected Images scoring 19 or higher:

Prints scoring 19 or higher:

Sue Heaton ......... Renaissance (20 + 2 for Judge's choice), Common Blue Butterflies (20), Greenfinch (20), Nuthatch (20)
Des Barr ........ Colours on the Doors (20), Seilebost Beach, Harris (20)
Sylvia Hughes ........ The Thatcher, Plimouth Plantation (20)
Mike Heaton ........ Blue Tit (19), Home Sweet Home (19), Puffin with Sand Eels (19)
Jean Neville........ Brown Bears Resting (19), Scottish Red Squirrel (19)
Alan Ross........ Hand Signals (19), Stripes and Shadows (19)
Keith Hughes ........ Manchester by Night (19), When Royal Mail Was King (19)
Bill Nairn ........ Springtime (19)
Myra Barr ........The Gallery, John Ryland's Library (19)

(Some print images not yet available)

Quite a busy month! SLIC had an entry in the annual Martin Avery Digital Print Competition which, this year, was hosted by North Cheshire PS and judged by Dave Butler ARPS, MFIAP, of Wigan 10 Foto Club. Seven clubs were invited to take part and the results were as follows:

1st South Liverpool PS with 209 points
joint 2nd North Cheshire PS and Chorley PS with 206 points
4th South Manchester CC with 195 points
5th St Helen's Cc with 189 points
6th SLIC with 184 points
7th Southport PS with 184 points

The individual, winning print belonged to a member of South Liverpool PS

SLIC's entry was:

Gothic Arches by Peter Eaton

Renaissance by Sue Heaton

Scottish Stream by Jean Neville

Brown Bears Resting by Jean Neville

Masquerade by Peter Eaton

Colours on the Doors by Des Barr

Afternoon Tea by Mike Heaton

The Gallery, John Rylands Library by Myra Barr

Stablemates by Sue Heaton

Manchester by Night by Keith Hughes

Thatcher - Plimouth Plantation by Sylvia Hughes

Taking '5' by Myra Barr

SLIC also had entries, this month, in the inter-club print and projected image competitions at Bramhall PS, which were judged by Bob Dennis, AFIAP APAGB CPAGB BPE3*

In the Print competition, 14 clubs took part and Bolton Digital PS won with 71 points out of a possible 80.
SLIC came joint 4th, with North Cheshire PS, with a total of 67 points
SLIC's entry was:

Afternoon Tea by Mike Heaton

Manchester by Night by Keith Hughes

Thatcher - Plimouth Plantation by Sylvia Hughes

Renaissance by Sue Heaton

In the Projected (digital) competition, 15 clubs took part and Chapel CC won with 90 points out of a possible 100.
SLIC came 8th with 81 points.
SLIC's entry was:

It's Grim up North by Des Barr

Mating Common Frogs by Michael Spillane

Gothic Arches by Peter Eaton

Taking '5' by Myra Barr

Cubism by Norman Piper

Salon Successes by SLIC members :

Norman Piper had acceptances with the following images:

in the California Pacific (PSA patronage) ......... Purity and Eden Project - Cornwall #47 :

in the : E.A. Hong Kong : (PSA, FIAP, RPS patronage) ......... Borage #3 and Firefighters

in the PSSNY (PSA patronage) ......... Hannah Hambleton #2 and Water Mill :

in the German DVF Photocup Circuit - (PSA patronage) ......... Every Family Has One - 3 acceptances, Hannah Hambleton #2 - 3 acceptances, Borage #3 - 3 acceptances, Bluebell Woods - 3 acceptances

in the Sydney International - (PSA, RPS patronage) ......... Guardians, Little Boxes #3, Night and Day #3, Purity, Winter

in the AC Foto German Mega Circuit of 6 salons .........Back Alley - 1 acceptance, Borage #3 - 2 acceptances, Dog Rose - 1 acceptance, Hannah Hambleton #2 - 1 acceptance, Merlin #3 - 4 acceptances, Mirror Pool - 1 acceptance, Past and Present Glories - 2 acceptances, Unicorn #1 - 1 acceptance, Watchdog - 2 acceptances

in the Swansea Interantional Salon, Wales - (PSA, FIAP, patronage) .........Come on down (Highly Commended), Sarah, Winter

in the Ocean State (PSA patronage)......... Hannah Hambleton #2

in the Scenic City (PSA patronage)......... Bluebell Woods (Honorable Mention), Firefighters ( Honorable Mention), Merlin #1, Purity

in the Gold Rush (PSA patronage)......... Dove of Peace, Past and Present Glories

in the PSA China (PSA patronage)......... Captive #8, Mars - God of War

Purity	The Eden Project, Cornwall	Borage	Firefighters	Hannah Hambleton 2
Water MIll	Every Family Has One	Bluebell Woods	Guardians	Little Boxes
Night and Day	Winter	Back Alley	Dog Rose	Merlin 3
Mirror Pool	Past & Present Glories	Unicorn	Watchdog	Come on Down
Sarah	Dove of Peace	Captive	Mars, God of War	Merlin 1

Also with acceptances in the Ocean State (PSA patronage) were .........

Des Barr ....... Graffiti
Peter Eaton ....... 8 Ball Pool and In the Studio
Sylvia Hughes ....... Hellebore
Jean Neville ....... Brown Bear Resting (PSRI Bronze Medal)
Verna Piper ....... Art Critic

8-Ball Pool by Peter Eaton

In the Studio by Peter Eaton

Graffiti by Des Barr

Hellebore by Sylvia Hughes

Brown Bear Resting by Jean Neville

Art Critic by Verna Piper

Des also had an acceptance in the salon at Bromsgrove (BPE patronage) and two in that at Smethwick (PSA, FIAP, RPS patronage) :

Two Come at Once at Bromsgrove:

The Corridor at Smethwick:

The Haunted House at Smethwick

Sue Heaton had acceptances with the following images:

In the International Art Photography Exhib. Life Balance 2011 (FIAP patronage) .......... Meeting Place, Tea and Text, Cafe Culture

in the 1st International Salon of Photography "Animals" (PSA & FIAP patronage) ) .......... Atlantic Puffin, Daughters of Creation, Spring in Healey Dell, Buzzard with Prey, The Venetian Mask

in the ISO 2011 Double Declic (FIAP & PSA patronage) .......... Buzzard with Prey, The Crimson Gloves, Daughters of Creation, Death of a Molecatcher

in the 6th French Digital Tour (4 salons) 2011 (FIAP patronage) .......... Nude in Provence, Goldfinch and Catkin (3 acceptances), Tree Sparrow, Buzzard with Prey (2 acceptances), Daughters of Creation (2 acceptances)

in the Swansea International Salon 2011 (FIAP patronage) .......... Buzzard with Prey, Common Blue on Thistle, Daughters of Creation, Tea and Text, Greenfinch, Memories (Print - Highly Commended)

in the 37th Smethwick International Exhibition (FIAP patronage) .......... Buzzard with Prey

Meeting Place

Tea and Text

Cafe Culture

Atlantic Puffin

Daughters of Creation

Spring in Healey Dell

Buzzard with Prey

The Venetian Mask

The Crimson Gloves

Death of a Molecatcher

Nude in Provence

Goldfinch and Catkin

Tree Sparrow

Common Blue on Thistle

Greenfinch

Memories (as a Print) Highly Commended

Mike Heaton had acceptances with the following images:

in the ISO 2011 Double Declic (FIAP & PSA patronage) .......... Classical, Jay, Sculptor's Model

in the 6th French Digital Tour (4 salons) 2011 (FIAP patronage) .......... Common Frog (4 acceptances), Jay (2 acceptances), Male Reed Bunting (2 acceptances)

in the Swansea International Salon 2011 (FIAP patronage) .......... Male Reed Bunting, A Good Book

in the 37th Smethwick International Exhibition (FIAP patronage) .......... Brambling on Catkin, Common Blue, Common Frog, Great Spotted Woodpecker

in the Exposed International Slovenia (FIAP patronage) .......... Buildings at Salford Quays, Taking a Break, Rebecca Amy

Classical

Sculptor's Model

Common Frog

Jay

Male Reed Bunting

A Good Book

Brambling on Catkin

Common Blue

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Buildings at Salford Quays

Taking a Break

Rebecca Amy