NWFed Final and Starred Images Competition: Amanda Wright Reports

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The final of the NWFed competition, together with the Starred Images Competition took place on Saturday 24th February, hosted by Watford. Here is Amanda Wright’s report:

I’m fresh back from Watford where Kris, Paul and I saw the final of the North-West Fed. As the organiser, Terri Adcock, had been away until recently many of us didn’t know who the two finalist clubs were - Amersham and Croxley - until this morning when we printed the scoresheet. 

Each club supplied 9 of their finest prints and 9 of their finest PDI’s and it is fair to say that judge Tim Morland from Kingston CC, had quite a tough task on his hands as the standard was indeed extremely high.

Tim held back 8 of the 18 prints, awarding three 20’s, all of which were from Amersham ,with final Print Comp scores being:

  • Amersham 164.5

  • Croxley 149

He went on to hold back 7 of the 18 PDI’s, awarding two 20’s this time, both being from Croxley. The final PDI scores were:

  • Amersham 152

  • Croxley 158

Total combined score:

  • Amersham 316

  • Croxley 307

So, fairly close.

After the coffee break The starred images were judged by Kevin Day

There were 24 PDI’s and Prints too, judged in two separate competitions. Much to Kevin’s relief, no scores were required - just a First Place and two Highly commended.

In the print competition Kevin held 5 back, with First Place going to David Manning of Leighton Buzzard with one of my favourite images of the year Tin Man Alley.

Both Highly commended images were from Watford: On The Naughty Step by Sam Jenkins and The Right Time Of Day by Mike Brankin.

We only had one print in which was Annie Hackett’s Winskill Tree but sadly it wasn’t held back for final selection.

In the PDI competition we had a bit more of a chance with 4 starred images:

A Moment Of Peace by Annie Hackett
An Anxious Wait by Mike Lloyd
Homage to It by Emmanuel
Eastern Eyes by Dennis Durack

Kevin held back 7 of the 24 images with Homage To It being the only chosen image from EHHPS.

Final placings were

  • First Place Samual by Sanjay Mistry from Harrow another of my favourite images of the year

  • Highly Commended Homage To It by Emmanuel, very well done Em, it’s a stunner!

  • Highly Commended Finnish Wolf in Cotton Grass at Dawn by Chris D’Netto from Imagez

Should you be interested I’m sure these images will be available to see on the individual club’s own websites but should be available on the NWFed website when it’s updated.