Ealing BEAT 2020 is Cancelled

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In view of the current Covid-19 situation, the Ealing BEAT committee have issued the following:

It is therefore, with the greatest regret, that the committee has determined to cancel BEAT 2020 and instead to focus on making BEAT 2021 the most successful year in BEAT’s history. We know that this will be a disappointment to many, but we can see no alternative.

As a result, we will be making a full subscription refund to all registered BEAT 2020 artists and groups as soon as possible.

They add:

More positively.....it has been decided that all individuals and groups [but not group members], who applied for BEAT 2020, will have a presence on the website as a showcase for their work. We will be promoting this to the public via social media and encourage you to “spread the word” too!

ealingbeat.org.uk
facebook.com/ealingbeat/
instagram.com/ealingbeat/
twitter.com/ealingbeat/

Get 'Photography News' Delivered during the Lockdown

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We have received the following from the Editor of ‘Photography News’

Hello! Are you a camera club member? If so, this message – and exclusive offer – is just for you

I do hope you and your camera club colleagues are faring well in these challenging times. We know most clubs have stopped meeting face to face and aim to start up again for the new season in September. This leaves us with a dilemma as we have been sending multiple copies to chairpersons homes for distribution during camera club gatherings. 

During this period of lockdown and uncertainty, we would like to offer UK camera club members a free monthly copy of Photography News sent direct to them. Please can you inform all your camera club colleagues about this offer and if individuals wish to take us up on it, all they have to do is email hello@bright-publishing.com with ‘PN free offer’ and their club’s name in the subject line. They will be then added to the mailing list. 

To receive the next issue, members must email us by 14 April to ensure they are put on the mailing list in time. They will then receive every subsequent issue on a monthly basis by post, until we return to some semblance of normality. 

Just to confirm, members’ details will only be used for this free PN offer during this difficult period and will not be used for any form of marketing or passed on to any third party. Please note, this offer is for UK camera club members with UK addresses only. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line. 

Your sincerely, 

Will Cheung, Editor

CACC Rosebowl Day at Amersham on April 19th is Cancelled: May be Judged Offline

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CACC Chair Mark Buckley-Sharp has announced:

CACC has decided to cancel Rosebowl Day at Amersham on Sunday April 19th.

It is possible that the Rosebowl appointed judge will agree to review and score the final entries at home. This would be helpful as otherwise most of those images would no longer be eligible as they were probably used in earlier rounds. This affects only the twelve notified finalist clubs, and a decision will be sent to them later. The on-line entry system for the Rosebowl Final is open now, so finalist clubs can post their entries anyway if they wish. Anything posted will also be forwarded to the CACC selectors.

EHHPS Club Meetings Suspended

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As a result of the significantly more strict Government guidance on Social Distancing with regard to the Coronavirus, all EHHPS meetings are suspended until further notice.

As previously announced, the Committee is looking at means of continuing activity by other means - such as conducting PDI competitions via the Internet. We will continue to update everyone as plans advance.

Once again we urge all members to take heed the advice available from the NHS, Public Health England, and Local Government websites, together with others such as the BBC.

Rosebowl Round 3: Results and Report

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In this third round competition for the hotly contested Rosebowl trophy, EHHPS were matched against Pinner CC, Stokenchurch CC and Wycombe PS. The match, at Pinner, was well attended, with EHHPS being represented by Dennis Durack and Paul Mason.

The Judge for the evening was Mark Buckley-Sharp.

After 60 PDI images, Wycombe emerged as clear winners on 271 points. EHHPS and Pinner shared second place on 261 points, with Stokenchurch only one point behind on 260.

High scorers for Ealing were:

Shaun Hodge with Marine Marie (20) and Barn Dance (18)
Kristin Mason with Out of the Grey (19)
Paul Mason with A Brush with a Cactus (18) and Beach Hut (18)
Amanda Wright with Escape Route (18)

The full results sheet is here.

Follow the links below for:

The results from EHHPS’s First Round match
The results from EHHP’s Second Round match
The full fixture list
Current Results and Standings

(External links may not have been updated yet).

Rosebowl Round 2 Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on the Second round match in the Rosebowl Trophy, hosted by EHHPS on Thursday 5th December:

Last night Ealing hosted our Round 2 of the Rosebowl Competition against clubs New City and Marlow. The 45 digital images were judged by Alan Colegrave who more than once mentioned that he was struggling to think of things to say as the standard of images was so high that he couldn’t fault them. That said he did manage to provide us with a broad range of marks.

The final scores were:

EHHPS 1st with 264
New City 2nd with 259
Marlow 3rd with 247

Top scorers with 20 points were:

Peace Pagoda Dawn by Simon Raynor from New City
A Brush With A Cactus by Paul Mason EHHPS also taking one of the stars
Positive Thinking by Shaun Hodge, EHHPS
Out Of The Grey by Kristin Mason, EHHPS taking the other star

The full Mark Sheet is here

Follow the links below for:

The results from EHHPS’s First Round match
The full fixture list
Current Results and Standings

The XRR Visions Results are In

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A small group of us ventured north to Watford on Wednesday 20th November for the XRR Visions competition.

EHHPS entered a team comprising Shaun Hodge, Dennis Durack and John Clare. In addition, Phil Dean, Kristin Mason and Paul Mason entered as individuals only.

184 pre-judged images from 92 photographers were shown in two consecutive slideshows, followed by a live critique of the 92 tie-break images by guest judge, David Steel DPAGB, from the East Anglian Federation.

All results are published here
(Sort by clicking on column headers, click an image title to preview the image).

Click here to view all images

Unfortunately, as a team EHHPS came well down the results table. The high scoring images were predominantly Wildlife and Landscape. It seemed that the Judge was seeking something more in ‘People’ images.

EHHPS highest scoring image was Marie by Shaun Hodge - scoring 18

Further information on the competition

PM / Results based on information supplied by Bill Cooper of XRR

NWFed Match A3: Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on the match which took place on Monday 4th November at Amersham

Amersham played hosts to the third and final round of Group A’s North West Fed with Hemel Hempstead and EHHPS on Monday evening which was judged by Martin Patten LRPS CPAGB BPE*

The scores were mostly very disappointing once again for Ealing and we came 3rd despite achieving 3 20’s and bagging 3 of the 4 allocated stars.

Third round scores on the night were

PRINTS

Amersham 93
Ealing 86
Hemel 85

PDIs

Amersham 93
Hemel 89
Ealing 86

Ealing’s top scorers were:

Out of The Grey by Kristin Mason (print): 20 and a star
Hippy Life by Shaun Hodge (PDI): 20 and a star
Skirting Fantasy by Paul Mason (PDI) 20 and a star

So with those totals added to the previous two rounds the overall final scores were

1st Amersham 591
2nd Ealing 561
3rd Hemel 555

Amersham will therefore go forward to the Semi Final against the winning club from Group C on 21st January.

The Final will be on Saturday 22nd Feb 2020 where our starred images will be judged again for a chance to win best print or best PDI of the competition.

Rosebowl First Round results are in

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Amanda Wright has passed on the results of the first round of the Rosebowl, held on 30th October at Leighton Buzzard. The judge was Colin Southgate.

Result:

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EHHPS scored no 20s, but 19s were awarded to:

Against the Grey - Kristin Mason
Beach Hut - Paul Mason
A Brush with a Cactus - Paul Mason
Pure Joy - Sandrine Thomas

Full results are here:

We host our next match against New City and Marlow on 5th December.


NWFed Match A2: Results and Report

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Amanda Wright reports on Monday’s (21 October) match which for the second time saw EHHPS facing Hemel Hempstead and Amersham:

Hemel Hempstead hosted round 2 of the NW Fed last night judged by Chris Sargeant and with Judy and Mark Buckley-Sharp present.

In the prints round EHHPS came a disappointing 3rd scoring 83, Hemel Hempstead 2nd with 87 and Amersham 1st with 92.

The judging appeared to be somewhat random with traditional views and details missed, the lowest score was 16 with two 20’s and both the stars awarded to Amersham. Ealing could only muster a top score of 18 for Paul Mason’s A Brush With A Cactus but this by no means represented the quality of the images EHHPS submitted. Personally I thought the criticisms were half hearted.

In the PDI’s again the lowest competition score was a 16 but EHHPS fared much better with Hemel scoring 88 and both Amersham and EHHPS scoring 90. Once again two 20’s and both stars were awarded to Amersham. EHHPS scored three 19’s which were In The Bell Tower by Paul Mason, Marine by Shaun Hodge and Before Sunrise by Dennis Durack.


The final round will be held at Amersham in two weeks time on Monday 4th November but it’s not looking hopeful.