KCPS rounded off another active year with the annual awards dinner, held at the Paraparaumu Golf Club. The presentations of the annual club awards for best overall salon results was topped off with the Best of Year competition judged by Chris Parkin.

The photographers who had most overall points across the four 2021 salons in each grade and category were:

Trophy	Winner	Runner Up
Novice Combined Print & Digital	Ani McManaway	Malcolm Bayliss
Intermediate Digital	Graham Lonsdale	Ian Yeoman
Intermediate Print	Ian Yeoman	Eva Petro
Advanced Digital	Jacky Challis	Carol Molineux
Advanced Print	Carol Molineux	Greg Whitfield

Congratulations to all the winners and runners up, and of course to the entire membership for creating such a great set of images over the year.

The highlight of the evening was the Best of Year competition, where club members submit their best print and digital image for commentary and ranking by the guest judge. In addition to deciding the winners and runners up, Chris included a few special mentions while delivering his comments:

• Carol Molineux for “Dispute” – Print
• Alison Viskovic for “Grey Power” – Print
• Eva Petro for “Hellebore Triptych” – Digital
• Neil Gordon for “Morning Shower” – Digital

And on to the winners and runners up:

Best of Year Award	Photographer	Image Title
Print Winner	David Yockney	Into the Desert
Print Runner Up	Barry Culling	Heron Pair
Digital Winner	Carol Molineux	Godwits Return
Digital Runner Up	Greg Whitfield	Office Construction

The evening rounded off what has been a very active year for KCPS with field trips, salons, workshops, and a wider variety of speakers. Below are a few images from the night.

The annual end of year awards dinner was held on 18th November at a new venue for us the Lloyd Parker Plateau Centre in Parkwood Village. This marked the last formal event of the KCPS calendar. 2019 president Greg Whitfield presented the main club awards, with guest Bruce Girdwood judging and awarding the Best of Year trophies.

The club awards are taken by totalling the scores across all four seasonal salons, with bonus points being added for images that match the subjects for the Regional Interclub Print competition.

Moira O’Malley, who was last year’s runner up for the Novice Grade combined print and digital award went one better this year by taking the win, just ahead of Warren Sutton.

The Intermediate Grade Digital winner was Graham Lonsdale, with Isobelle Gosling runner up.

Greg Whitfield took out the Intermediate Grade Print award, ahead of Di Daniels.

In the Advanced Grade Digital, Gavin Klee won with Roger Smith runner up.

Winner of the Advanced Grade Print was Hugh Scott. Barry Culling was runner up. Unfortunately Hugh could not be with us at the dinner hence no cheesy photo.

The major trophies for overall best print and best digital of the year were judged and awarded by Bruce Girdwood.

Barry Culling won the Peg Griffin Trophy for Best of Year Print for his Water Lily with Frog. Alison Viskovic was placed second for Isolation.

The Waikanae Cup for Best of Year Digital was won by Roger Smith for Angry Bird. This rounded off a successful year for Roger Smith who earlier in the calendar won the 2019 Frank Hinchcliff Trophy. Carol Molineux was runner up for her Tararua Clearance.

Roger and Barry had a good year between them, with a number of awards and trophies.

 

 

 

KCPS has done well in two recent competitions.

George Chance – 2nd for NZ

We entered a set of four prints for the George Chance Interclub Print Competition for landscapes.  I’m pleased to say that KCPS came second.

Congratulations to Jo Goudsblom, Gavin Klee, Carol Molineux and Rachel Stevens whose prints were used for our entry.

Thanks also to Alison Viskovic for her hard work in printing and matting the set.  We won’t show the (stunning) print set publicly online just now, because some prints may be used for other club entries.

Wellington Interclub Print Battle – 2nd

Another 2nd for this interclub print competition, that took place in Petone on Tuesday 8 September.  Well done to Peter Ellis, Neil Gordon, Jo Goudsblom, Carol Molineux, Hugh Scott and Alison Viskovic whose prints were used, after being selected at our KCPS meeting on 10 August.

Eight club members were there for the live judging. We were apparently in a three-way tie for first half-way through, but ended up just pipped at the post (by one point?) at the end.  The winner was the Aotearoa Philippines Photographic Society, who will also be the host next year.