Successes
July 2011 - PAGB Inter-Club PDI Competition at Warwick
Amersham finished in 3rd place with 247 points, behind Wigan 10 (259) and Carluke (250).
Tony Bamford & David Wessely both scored maximum 15 points each, with Gill Morgan & Pam Bamford achieving 14 each. This is a terrific result for such a tough competition.
See http://www.pagbnews.co.uk/e-news/en48160811WarwickdetailsNewRLS.pdfMarch 2011 - George W. Glennie Memorial Nature Salon
Amersham came 8th from 108 clubs.
Four of our ten images won awards: Gill Morgan (2), Paul Keene & David Wessely.
See http://www.mvcameraclub.org/Glennie/2011/glennie-2011-results.htm
February 2011 - The PAGB's annual "Great British Nature Cup"
Amersham shared the first place with Wigan 10. Results were decided on the ten highest-scoring images from each club. This was a great achievement by Amersham and 88 clubs took part. Details on the PAGB site |here|.
February 2011 - North-West Federation Finals
Amersham versus Harrow resulted in a win for Amersham with scores of 164 and 160 respectively for PDI and Prints; Harrow's scores being 155 and 152.5. This is the second year in succession that we came first in oth PDI and prints.
Jill Morgan won best print; Paul Keene won best PDI - congratulations to them both.
The self-imposed “one image per author” rule worked very well and shows the strength in depth of Amersham.
April 2010 - CACC Championships
Amersham won the Print Championship (186 to Oxford's 181) but came fourth in the DPI Championship (Oxford 188 to Amersahm's 168).
March 2010 - 30th George Glennie Memorial Nature Salon
Amersham came 4th from 110 clubs participating inthe event.
Congratulations to Tony Bamford, Andrew Bailey, Don Baxter and Murray Thompson who all achieved individual awards.
Full details can be seen on the competition's web site - click |here|February 2010 - Winners NW Federation Print & DPI Finals
Amersham won the 50th NW Fed against Pinner with some excellent individual scores (our lowest mark was 17 for any of our 18 images). Three trophies were awarded at the competition and, in addition to the club victory, Janet Osborne-Williams won the individual award for best projected image in the entire competition for Bulldozer; and Gill Morgan won the same award for best print with Elephant Seal Pups Play Fighting.
This is our most important local competition with a strong history, and we are proud to take part in it. The competition started in 1961, and the first time Amersham was successful was as recently as 1989 (though we have enjoyed considerable success in the last fifteen years).
Congratulations to all of the authors who’s images were used in the competition (Patrick Hudgell, Andy Harding, Gill Morgan, Yin Wong, David Wessely, Paul Keane, Tony Bamford, David Pearson, Tim Abell, Ted Kinsey, Patrick Hudgell, Andy Harding, Steve Brabner, Malcolm Cartledge, Mary Attfield, Janet, and Peter Spring contributed our 32 DPI and Print images), and particular individual congratulations to Gill and Janet.
October 2009 - PAGB Print Finals - APS in fith place
July 2009 - PAGB Slide Finals - APS fourth place
May 2009 - Guildhall Print Competition - APS second place
May 2009 - Rosebowl Slides Final - APS second place
April 2009 - CACC Print & Slide Championships
- APS Print Winners and second place for Slides.February 2009 - NW Federation Print & Slide Finals - Winners APS
January 2009 - PAGB Inter-Club DPI Competition - Fourth place APS
November 2008 - Pre-Visions Prints and DPI - Winners APS
November 2008 - Inter-Federation Challenge DPI - Winners APS
October 2008 - PAGB Print Finals - APS in ninth place
July 2008 - PAGB Slide Finals - APS fourth place
May 2008 - Rosebowl Slide Final - APS second place
May 2008 - Guildhall Battle Print Competition - Winners APS
March 2008 - CACC Print and Slide Championship - Winners APS
Mar 2008 - PAGB Inter-Club DPI Competition - Third Place APS
February 2008 - North West Federation Print and Slide Final - Winners APS
November 2007 - Inter-Federation Challenge - Winners APS
October 2007 - PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship - Amersham is Top Club 2007!
This year the PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship trophy has been brought south of Birmingham for the first time!
The Competition took place at Connah's Quay on 27 October 2007 where Amersham beat 980 other clubs from around Great Britain to win this highly prestigious event for the first time.In addition to being overall winners, Gold Medal for Best Monochrome Print went to Steve Smith's "My Son" and Silver Medals went to Paul Mitchell & Steve Brabner.
This is a truly magnificent achievement for our club and our very special thanks must go to Steve Smith & Steve Simpson for their hard work and excellent management of the APS entries for the competition.