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Club awarded a Dartford Borough Council Community Grant
We are very pleased to be able to announce that we were successful applicants for a Dartford Borough Council Community Grant to purchase a new digital projector to replace our worn out and outdated machine. This will make our competitions and lectures much easier and better quality so make sure you come and see for yourselves. An important change is that
We are now able to project images with dimensions of 1600 horizontal pixels x 1200 vertical pixels in our PDI competitions, this
being the size adopted by KCPA and PAGB for PDI competitions. Our old
projector limited us 1024 pixels horizontal by 768 pixels vertical.
2017 Photographic Exhibition of Dartford & District Photographic Society Members' Work iat The Sir Peter Blake Gallery, Dartford Library, DA1 1EU (near Central Park) was a great success
1st Intermediate DPI Competition
First place: "Dancer by Ron Hart
Second place: "Tina" by David Nuttall
Third place: "I'm Flying" by David Nuttall
Having been asked about how to create a brush in photoshop, here's an Adobe Photoshop how to which may be helpful. You can create a brush from an image, just make sure you don't exceed the maximum pixel dimensions otherwise the menus will be greyed out. This is really useful if you want to create cloud brushes to add to your landscape images.
We are pleased to congratulate Stuart Burns on his recent LRPS (Licentiate) distinction . A great achievement.
2nd Intermediate Print Competition
On 10 May 2017, our 2nd Internal Print competition was judged by Andy Smith LRPS CPAGB. The top three images were:
First place: "Big sky landscape, Dungeness" by David Ingram
Second place: "A carpet of bluebells" by Geoff Lamy
Third place: "Leona" by David Nuttall
2nd Intermediate PDI Competition
On 29 March 2017 we had our 2nd Internal PDI Competition, judged by Kevin Bell LRPS. The top three images were :
First place: "Dancer" by David Nuttall
Second place: "Meerkat" by Jonathan Walland
Third place: "Summer Memories" by Carol White-Griffiths
Annual PDI Competition
by Ron Hart, Winner, Creative
by Geoff Lamy, Winner, Sport
by Tim Holland, Winner Photojournalism and Monochrome
by Julian Delf, Winner Pictorial and Overall Winner
by Graham Reeve, Winner Portrait
by Phil Burt, Winner Record
Julian Delf, Winner Nature
Our Annual PDI competition on 1 February produced some excellent images. Winners of categories are:
Pictorial - "Winter Dog Walk" by Julian Delf
Creative - "Kent Oast" by Ron Hart
Nature - "Eastern Chipmunk" by Juliuan Delf
Portrait - "OK I'm Still - Can I Have My Treat" by Graham Reeve
Record - "Choir, Buckfast Abbey" by Phil Burt
Sport - "A Surge of Power" by Geoff Lamy.
Street - "Battery Life" by Tim Holland
Best Monochrome was "Battery Life" by Tim Holland. The overall winner was Julian Delf's "Winter Dog Walk".
2nd Intermediate Print Competition
A 3-Print panel print competition with an open theme – Judged by Andy Smith LRPS CPAGB.
First place: "Light & Form" by Jonathan Walland
Second place: "Now you see him, now you don't" by Phil Burt
Third place: "Hidden Doors to a World of Art " by Julian Delf
2nd Intermediate PDI Competition
The theme was "Transport in Kent" and the judge was Malcolm Hardie. The top three images are below:
First Place- "Tyreless in the Thames" by Ian Hunt
Second Place -"Sailing barges off Sheppey" by David Nuttall
Third Place - "Via-Northfleet-Strood-Bluebell Hill" by Ron Hart
Three-way Battle Crayford, Gravesend, Dartford
Our annual Battle was hosted by Crayford Camera Club on 23 February 2016 and judged by Paul Adams ARPS DPAGB FDPS. The competition was in two sections, PDIs and Prints. The PDI section was a close result, but due to our strong showing in the print section Dartford were overall
winners with 281, Crayford came second with 273 and Gravesend third with
268. There were eight entries in each section, and in the PDI HOW'S THAT by Geoff Lamy scored 20 and in the print section PYRAMID by Jonathan Walland scored 20. Top marks!
Annual PDI Competition
17 February 2015 - judged by Glyn Bareham LRPS CPAGB. For this competition we asked our judge to score the images using the PAGB system of marks from 2 to 5.
Overall Winner - "Misty Morning" by Phil Burt
Best Monochrome - "Canary Wharf at Sunset" by Jonathan Walland
Creative - "Greenwich Park" by Brian Tettmar
Nature - "Silverback Gorilla in His Prime" by Geoff Lamy
Pictorial - "Misty Morning" by Phil Burt
Portrait - "Daisy" by Paul King
Record - "Stained Glass Window in Lincoln Cathedral" by Geoff Lamy
Sport - "Taking the Bend" by Geoff Lamy
Street - "Buy My Fish, Negombo Fish Market" by Paul Davies
Concorde Shield Competition
3 February 2016 - Judged by Steve Carroll ARPS, this annual inter-club competition between Dartford, Crayford and Wilmington Camera Clubs was hosted by Dartford this year. Dartford were the winners, followed by Crayford and runners up were Wilmington. Well done to all who contributed.
1st Intermediate PDI Competition
Group 1 winners
1. "Battle of Britain Tribute" by Carol White-Griffiths
2. "Al Fresco - English Style" by David Nuttall
3. "Twin Tower" by Tim Holland.
First Intermediate PDI Competition
Group 2 winners
1 "Unity" by Jonathan Walland
2 "Through the Arch" by Jonathan Walland
3 "The Hoo Frontier" by Paul King
Annual Print Competition
Clive Tanner FRPS judged this multi-category print competion in which all members are encouraged to submit up to four entries. Categories were Pictorial, Creative, Portrait, Sport, Street/Photojournalism, Record and Nature.
Roger Force FRPS DPAGB won the Record category and also Overall Print with a magnificent mono print "A Statue of Sir Henry Bathurst D.C.L."
A Statue of Sir Henry Bathurst D.C.L.
Phil Burt won the Pictorial category with "United Colours of Burano"
United Colours of Burano
David Nuttall won the Portrait Section with Breakfast at Daren's
Breakfast at ... Daren's
Mike Morfett won the Sport category with "Running for good causes" and the Creative with "Red Kite, Twin Lens Capture"
Running for Good Causes
Red Kite, Twin Lens Capture
Tim Holland won the Street/Photojournalism category with "Grime Scene"
Grime Scene
David Ingram won the Nature category with Mule Deer, Canadian Rockies
Mule deer, Canadian Rockies
Concorde Trophy
Steve Caroll judged this annual three-way club competition, hosted by Wilmington Camera Club and against them and Crayford Camera Club. Dartford won with 212 points.
The judge nominated 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for the competition. Geoff
Lamy's "A Glance to Leg" took 1st, Tim Holland's "Worker B" took 2nd and
a photo by Les Thwaites from Crayford took 3rd.
Three Print Panel
Sue Chapman ARPS CPAGB judged this internal competition. on 13 May 2015. Phil Burt was first with his spectacular Icelandic Iceberg trio.
Second place went to Geoff Lamy with "Three Stages of an Equestrian event" and third place to David Nuttall with "Three Faces of Alex"
First Internal print competition
Michelle by David Nuttall, 1st Place
Saturday Afternoon in Brixton by Brian Tettmar, 3rd Place
Our little run of victories was short lived when we came up against 37 other clubs in this year's Ross Cup competition on 22 November 2014. We achieved a middling 17 place. Aperture Woolwich won the competition.
In the first inter-society competition of the 2013/2014
season D&DPS were successful in the Steve Dobson
Trophy by a single point over Photo Digital CC from
Woolwich. A further 3 points back in a close 3rd
place were Wilmington CC.
This long running competition between Aperture Woolwich, Bexleyheath and Dartford clubs was hosted this year by Bexleyheath on 10 November. The judge was Keith Evans FRPS. Dartford were the winners, for the first time since 2006, Aperture Woolwich second and Bexleyheath third.
The first internal competion of the 2014-5 season was held on 15 October. It was for Projected Digital Images and the subject was open. Andy Smith judged the competition, awarding first place to "Tina" by David Nuthall, second place to "Young French Bulldog" by Graham Reeve and third place to "Une Moustache Magnifique" by Geoff Lamy.
