Chichester CC hosted the 2013 Regnum Crouch PDI Shield at the Assembly rooms in Chichester. The event was organised very well by Mike Davison (trained by SCC!). The Judge for the competition was Tony Riley from Dorking, a well respected Digital expert who has given a talk at SCC and judged a competition, which I remember well as he gave me a 20!!
Eleven local clubs entered with Steyning and Chichester tying in First place to win the competition. You may recall that the day before, (slightly more than 24 hours!), at the Sussex Fed Print competition, Steyning came last!; which gently brings me to the very bad news that we came last this evening. Sadly it is the worst result the club has ever had that I can remember.
We entered six PIs from John Gauvin; Liz Barber; Chris West; Anne Nagle; Robert Allison and Jean MacWhirter who had our highest mark of 17. I was in charge of the selection (note, this position is available to anyone as of now), and I thought that we had a nice selection of pictures (although I was not happy about one). I am not going to reveal who got what marks as the judge clearly did not really like any of our pictures. He was critical of all the images in the competition from a technical point of view (including the winning one); but really we all agreed with his choice of the winners I have to say.
We were actually joint last with Littlehampton. I commiserated with the lovely Gail Bell, Chairlady of Steyning, after their disaster on Sunday, and she said it was one of those things and they were not going to beat themselves up. We must do the same. Our club is a very happy band of people who all love photography. We are of mixed ability but that does not matter one jot; the great thing is that we do not take things too seriously. We are half the size of Steyning.
There was one bright part of the evening for us when we got three prizes in the raffle!!
So let us put this small disaster behind us and move onward and hopefully upward.