In the L&CPU Annual Print and Slide Competition, for 2004, SLIC members entered through a number of clubs.
The following members were amongst those representing SLIC in the print categories and had work selected for inclusion in the folios:

Colour Prints:
Maureen Glynn Jacob" (12)
Sheila Goodyear CanYou Still Hear TheBand?(11)

Creative Prints:
Maureen Glynn Chimera (12)
Verna Piper Leda and the Egg (11)

Monochrome Prints:
Norman Piper West Pennine Moors (12) and Past and Present Glories (11)
EB Swarbrick Guard of Honour (11) - PAGB selection

Natural History Prints:
Michael Spillane Little Owl (12) and Greater Spotted Woodpecker (12)

In the slide categories 3 members had work accepted for inclusion in the folios:

General Slides:
EB Swarbrick Pod, Poppy and Summer and Soaring
Verna Piper Sunflower

Creative Slides:
Norman Piper Enigma #2 (Cert. of Merit), Bicycle (Cert. of Merit) and On Call

The Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit (FIAP) results were also announced this month. Two SLIC members sent entries and had outstanding results.
Chris Widdall was awarded a Gold Medal for Before the Mast in the Colour Print section, Salon 1. She also won a Gold Medal in the Digital Photography category of the Special Themes section, for Across the Atrium (colour print). She had 10 acceptances in the colour salons and two acceptances in the "Special Themes: Panoramas" section.
Mike Lawrence gained 7 acceptances in the 4 salons, along with 1 Gold Medal, in Salon 4, for Nightmare.

Full results can be viewed on the website at: http://www.supercircuit.at/

Just squeezing into May, on Thursday 27th, was the annual Martin Avery Digital Trophy competition which, this year, was hosted by South Liverpool PS and judged by Mike McNamee FRPS, FBPPA. Five Clubs take part: South Liverpool PS, Southport PS, North Cheshire PS, St Helens CC and SLIC. This year SLIC was successful in winnning the trophy. The trophy for best print in the competition went to Vic Pigula, of South Liverpool PS, for Melanie.

Our highest scoring prints were Number 489 Mala Strana and Below Stairs, both of which were by Maureen Glynn, and Crossing the Atrium, by Chris Widdall. Each of these was awarded 20 marks. Joining Anthony by Mike Lawrence gained 19 marks.

Chris Widdall entered the Cotswold Monochrome Salon (BPE) and gained 4 acceptances.

Full results can be found on the website at:
http://www.cotswold-monochrome.co.uk/

In the South Shields International Salon (FIAP) Chris had 6 acceptances including 2 'Highly Commended'. They were Before The Mast and Harrop Ridge and both were in the colour section.

Full results can be found on the website at: http://www.southshieldsphoto.co.uk/international.html

The results of the Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography (FIAP) were announced in early July. Chris Widdall had 2 acceptances, Across The Atrium (colour) and Cloud Over Westminster (monochrome)
Details of the Exhibition can be found at:
http://www.edinburghphotographicsociety.co.uk/intexh.html

The autumn season sees quite a number of Open Competitions ......... amongst them are Dingwall National Slide Exhibition (BPE) and the Shrewsbury Open Colour Slide Competition (BPE). Results from these two competitions were announced this month.

In the Dingwall Exhibition:
Sheila Goodyear obtained 3 acceptances in the Open Section: Street Entertainers, Shoot! and Music of the Andes.
Norman Piper gained 2 acceptances in the Open Section with Bitter and Twisted and The Big One.
Maureen Glynn gained an acceptance in the Open Section with Chimera.

Full results will be posted on their website:
http://www.roscrow.uklinux.net/dcc/home.shtml

In The Shrewsbury Competition:
Sheila Goodyear gained 1 acceptance.

Full results will be posted on their website:
http://www.shropshire-photographic.org.uk/

The results of the Bromsgrove Open Exhibition (BPE) were announced early this month. There were entries from several members in both the slide and print categories:

Chris Widdall had 3 print acceptances, Before the Mast (colour) and Crossing the Atrium (mono) both of which were commended. She also had an acceptance with Ancient Mariners (colour)

Verna Piper had 2 acceptances, Dali Woman and Leda and the Egg in the General Slide category.

Sheila Goodyear had 3 acceptances, Shoot! Arctic Explorers and Street Entertainers, in the General Slide category.

The Bramhall PS Exhibition was held during the second week in November.

The Annual Open Creative Print Competition was held on the opening night. Over the past few years SLIC members have been quite succesful and this year was no exception. Norman Piper took the first prize, winning £50 and a printer, with the print Contemplating Totality and Infinity. Maureen Glynn won the third prize of £20 with her print Below Stairs. Congratulations to both winners on a well-deserved result.

The annual inter club Print Panel and Laughton Slide Trophy competitions were held on the Thursday evening. Gordon Jenkins from Chorley was the judge. SLIC has won the Print Panel trophy previously but this was the first time we had entered slides.

SLIC's was the winning entry in the print panels and was entitled Windows. The individual prints were For King or Parliament by Norman Piper, The Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas by Verna Piper, 'Carnevale' in Venice by Maureen Glynn and Twilight on the Quays by Sheila Goodyear.

On Tuesday (16th Nov) night we took a SLIC entry, to Rochdale & District CC, for the Slide Knockout Competition (it's a bit like playing poker with slides!). The judge was Tillman Kleinhans ARPS, DPAGB, from St Helens. Nine clubs took part. There are 5 slides in each round and the club with the lowest score in the first round drops out, then in the second round the 2 lowest-scoring clubs go and, after the final round the two clubs with the highest scores go head to head with a single slide each. All nail-biting stuff! The good news was, that if the scores from all the rounds had been totalled, we would have won! The bad news was that we missed being in the final 2 clubs by just one point! I'm going to get more practise with the cards before next year! It was a very tight finish in the final round with Oldham CC achieving 83 points and Bury PS 82 ( SLIC had 81). Oldham CC went on to win the trophy with Frozen Beauty by Ian Greenhalgh.

One of our slides, Lift Off! scored 20 points, and two, I Got Rhythm! and Resurrection, scored 19 points.

The PAGB adjudications for the 'C' and the 'M' awards were held in Burton on Trent on the 27th November. Three SLIC members, Maureen Glynn, Verna Piper and myself (Sheila Goodyear) nervously trekked down there with our 10 prints and, I'm happy to report, came home with our little blue badges proclaiming us as worthy of the CPAGB award! Also receiving it that day were our friends, Brian Lomas from North Manchester CC and Oldham PS, and (in his absence) George Steele from Rochdale PS. It was a great day and we saw some brilliant photographs.

Here is our happy little trio after the awards ............... click on the names underneath to see a photo of each receiving the award. (Thanks to Norman for the pictures)

Results from The Bebington Salon of Photography were announced in December, just before Christmas. The competition is for slides only. Norman Piper had one acceptance with All Bitter and Twisted and Sheila Goodyear had one with Lift Off!

Just sneaking in at the end of the year are the results from the Smethwick International Exhibition of Photography (FIAP). Chris Widdall had 5 acceptances: Across the Atrium, Harrop Ridge and Dash were all accepted in the colour print section with The Cobb and Isolation being accepted in the mono print section.

All results can be seen on their website at
http://www.theoldschoolhouse.com/smethwick/exhib.html

Details of all the BPE competitions can be found on this website.
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