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On 7th October my club, Harlow PS, competed against seven other clubs at Upminster CC. Harlow PS won the competition. My image, below, was chosen as the Best Projected Digital Image. The judge then had to choose between the Best Print and Best PDI for an over all winner - he chose my PDI.



Two years before I won the Best Print in the 2012 Windmill Challenge competition.

In the 7th British Photographic Exhibition organized by the Beyond Group I got a Highly Commended award for my image of a 'Juvenile dark chanting goshawk'. I took it in Kenya's Tsavo East national park.

The image below got second place in my photo club print of the year competition. There were 40 or so images in the competition where members each choose to enter their own three favourite images from their previous season's competitions.

The image below was chosen by Rosemary Wilman as her personal selection from 981 projected digital images in the East Anglian Federation's 2014 Exhibition.

The image below was awarded a FIAP Silver Medal in the Nature section. It scored 15 which means each of the 3 judges gave it their top mark of 5. This is my first medal at international salon level and I am thrilled.

I had an amazing few hours at London Fashion Weekend, taking photos from the pro photographers area.
Photos in this gallery are from the Ashish Designer collection.

This year's RPS exhibition changed its name from projected to screen image. It also changed the categories to have a) In Camera; b) Altered Reality and c) Nature. My 'Front Crawl' image below was accepted into the Altered Reality section. This exhibition is highly thought of and often less that 10% of entries get an acceptance.

The culmination of the years' Projected Digital Images came in the form of the PDI competition of the year. There were 58 images of all sorts of subjects - nature, landscape, sport, portraiture and creative. My swimmer image below came second. The judge was Ray Kimberley.

There were 48 top images from the past years' print competitions at Harlow PS in the 2013 Print of the Year.
The judge was Mike Fuller from Canvey Island. Mike loved the graphical and artistic side of my image as well as the photographic.

Click on the image to see more images from along the River Elbe.

This one again! This time a Highly Commended certificate. It is the first time I have ever got an award in the EAF Exhbition. Only about 8% of images get accepted from the thousands of entries and then only a few get awards.

This image is one that is beginning to 'shine' and do well for me. It got me my first 'award' on my journey towards my EFIAP Bronze - an honourable mention in the DVF Germany FIAP. For EFIAP Bronze I will need to get three mentions/certificates/medals along with 75 acceptances using 25 different images, 10% of which must be in the printed form.

There were 47 entries into the 2013 Tony Perryman Monochrome print competition at my club, Harlow PS with a good variety of genres though people and landscapes prints were in the majority. By the end of the evening the judge, David Steel from Cambridge, had held back 22 images. Of these he then selected seven as his top photos. I was thrilled that all of my entries were in this top selection. The final result was that my Camel Boys print won (below left) and my other two images were both highly commended.

This competition is sponsored by one of the Harlow PS members, Tony Perryman. Not only did I win the title and a cup I also got a monochrome tips book supplied by Tony.


To see a larger view of Camel Boys click on that image to be taken to my Exhibition Acceptances gallery.

The 'assignment' or 'theme' was to produce a print that showed 'Patterns in the built environment.' My winning image was taken one afternoon in late September from the London Wall in the Barbican looking across to the offices which had more buildings reflected in them. The assignments at Harlow PS are member judged. Each member has two votes, stating their first and second choice. My image won with the most votes from that judging.

I got two acceptances into the Great Barr, Birmingham national exhibition in August 2012. The swimmer (yes, it's that one again!) gained 14 out of 15 points, meaning that two of the three judges gave it their top mark. It was given a Commended award for that. The other image is of boys in a camel market, Egypt.

The two images below were accepted into the RPS International Projected Image Exhibition in August 2012. That exhibition attracts participants from all over the world and gets thousands of entries so I am particularly pleased to get them accepted. In fact, of the 2482 entries only 228 were accepted for the exhibition which will travel all over the UK and be shown at various photographic venues during the next few months.

There were 39 images in the prestigious 'Print of the year' competition at my camera club on 7th June.
My 'Fast forward' got 2nd place.

It''s a great feeling to learn I am now an ''EFIAP'' - an ''Excellence'' of the Federation Internationale de L''Art Photographique. Since gaining my AFIAP in March 2010 I have gained more acceptances into exhibitions all over the world. My acceptances now number 196. The requirement was to get 150 or more acceptances, with 50 different images in 30 different salons covering 15 different countries. I had achieved that by September 2011 and then came the task of doing the paper work and listing them all!
Over the years I have submitted images with five different genres - swimmers/sport; landscape; creative; natural history and travel. Below is a selected image from each genre.

Like most camera clubs Harlow PS runs a series of league competitions during a year. In a league the results from a number of competitions are aggregated together for a final result. Harlow PS holds five league competitions for print images and another five for projected digital images. Two entries are allowed per round giving a total of ten but only the top eight score for the final placing.
In the season 2009-10 I came third in the print league and second in the projected digital image league. I was very close to the top marks too - just three marks different from the winner in both leagues. The final positions were very tight.

My top eight print images were:





My top eight digital projected images were: