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3rd Intermediate PDI (instead of Print) Competition

Held on Wednesday 20 May, Judge Stephen Carroll ARPS. Judge remotely with members "attending" on Zoom. Winning entries below. Well done to all who entered and attended.

 

Annual PDI Competition

Held on Wednesday 29 January 2020. Judge was Andy Smith, LRPS, CPAGB. There were 61 entries in four categories. Well done to everyone who entered.

 

Annual General Meeting

At the AGM on 23 October 2019 Officers and Committee members were elected.

President: Phil Burt LRPS
Vice Presient: Roger Force FRPS DPAGB
Hon Secretary: Brian Tettmar
Treasurer: David Ingram
Print Secretary: Stuart Burns LRPS
DPI Secretary: Tom Burns ARPS
Programme Secretary: Carol White-Griffiths LRPS
KCPA Delegates: Roger Force FRPS DPAGB and Mike Morfett LRPS CPAGB
Committee Members: Mike Morfett LRPS CPAGB, Geoff Lamy LRPS CPAGB, Ron Hart APAGB

A big Thank You to our outgoing officers, in particular Paul King (as Secretary), Mike Morfett as past Print Secretary, Brian Tettmar as DPI Secretary, and a warm welcome to new Officers Stuart Burns, and Tom Burns.

Intermediate Print Competition

8 May 2019. Judge Tony Bentley ARPS. Winning entries below:

 

Amateur Photographer article

Great to have a "Join the Club" spread in 12 January 2019. Click the image to download a larger version.

 

First Intermediate Print Competition 2018-19

The judge Kevin Bell LRPS thought the theme of “Disappearing Technologies” was interpreted very well by everyone. Congratulations to the winner – Stuart Burns LRPS for “Turboprop”, to 2nd place – Carol White-Griffiths LRPS with “Film Taken With Digital” and 3rd place to Mike Morfett LRPS with “Blowlamp From Yesteryear”.

 

Annual Print Competition 2018

Winners of the categories for this year's competition. Congratulations to Phil Burt LRPS for not only “Best Print” overall and “Best B&W” print but for three category wins too. Well done to all.

 

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for a Dartford Borough Council Community Grant to purchase a new digital projector to replace our worn out and outdated machine.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

 

 

 

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:

 

 

 

 

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 :

 

 

Annual PDI Competition

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.

 

 

 

2nd Intermediate PDI Competition

The theme was "Transport in Kent" and the judge was Malcolm Hardie. The top three images are below:

 

 

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.

 

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

 

 

First Intermediate PDI Competition
Group 2 winners

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."

 

Phil Burt won the Pictorial category with "United Colours of Burano"

David Nuttall won the Portrait Section with Breakfast at Daren's

Mike Morfett won the Sport category with "Running for good causes" and the Creative with "Red Kite, Twin Lens Capture"

 

Tim Holland won the Street/Photojournalism category with "Grime Scene"

David Ingram won the Nature category with 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"