Last Sunday, March 23rd, was the ultimate annual Chiltern's Association of Camera Clubs Print and PDI Competition we call Championship Day. It's a full day of some of the best photography the CACC has to offer with the two competitions being held separately plus the addition of The Chiltern's 100 where individuals are invited to submit an image of their own choosing.

Our judges for the day were:

Bob Moore MPAGB HonPAGB HonFRPS
Sue Moore MPAGB FRPS
Naomi Saul ASINWP DPAGB EFIAP APAGB BPE4

The Chiltern's 100 was the first competition of the day with 170 images submitted from a total of 16 clubs. Sadly numbers seem to be ever declining, I remember when I first joined EHHPS and came to these events there would be approximately 300 - 400 images in each competition. There would also be a large posse of representatives from each club with 10 or so just from EHHPS.

The 3 judges score out of 5 (so 15 is the top score) and as this competition has PAGB patronage the judges award a PAGB Gold Medal, PAGB Silver Medal and a PAGB Bronze medal with 3 PAGB Ribbons also.

We had 7 images in this competition with two members getting a high score of 13 - congratulations to Jenny Fenton with Hakuba and to John Clare with Kasbah Encounter. I managed to score the lowest points in the entire competition receiving just 7 points for 'The Journey', they must have really disliked it, I think that's a first!

The results and winning images can be found on the CACC website.

After a long lunch break of 1 ½ hours (which really upset the judges who seemed not to be amused for most of the day) we continued with:

The Championship Print Competition.

13 clubs entered this year each submitting 15 images so 195 prints in total and I'm delighted to say that EHHPS came 5th with a total score of 184

EHHPS top scorers with 14 points each were