News

25th February 2008

Stokesley PS won the Annual Slide and Print Battle with Northallerton by a very narrow margin of 3 points. The battle was judged by Bryan Gilbert, giving us a very enjoyable evening.

10th February 2008

Stokesley PS took part in the NCPF slide and print championships on Sunday 10th February. In the slide competition SPS took second place and we will join our friends from Northallerton to represent the NCPF in the PAGB Slide Championships at Warwick on 12th July. Congratulations to Northallerton who won the slide competition by a very wide margin. SPS took 3rd place in the print competition. Congratulations to Sunderland PS and Whitley Bay CC who will represent the NCPF in the PAGB Print Championship at Connahs Quay in October.

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December 2007

The society won the NYSD annual inter-club competition. We won five of the seven trophies. Congratulations to David Smith for his print Ash Keys being selected as the best print in the inter-club competition and also for winning the Cleveland Trophy (Silver Salver) with Triteleia No 2. Ken Broomfield is also to be congratulated for having the 2nd placed print in the inter-club competition.

May 2007

Paula Davies has been awarded a Fellowship of the RPS in the Visual Art category.

April 2007

Congratulations to club members who were successful in this years Sharrow Photographic Competition:

John Huddlestone, 3rd place in the Pictorial section. Sam Issa, 1st place in the Portrait category.

April 2007

In the NCPF Annual Colour Slide Competition Stokesley PS finished in second place with 72 points. Congratulations to Northallerton the winners with 75 points. In the Annual Colour Print competition Stokesley finished 3rd with 68 points. The winners were Dumfries CC with 71 points and in second place Morpeth CC with 69 points.

Congratulations to David Smith for being awarded the Vickers Trophy for the best Natural History slide and to Guy Davies and John L Davies who both had slides which were highly commended.

In the print section of the competition there were two Highly Commended prints each for David Smith and Guy Davies.

February 2007

On Sunday 11th February the club took part in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation's Club Championship at Harraton Hall, Washington. Stokesley PS won the Print Championship with 184 points and will be one of the club's representing the NCPF at the national PAGB Print Championships at Connahs Quay on Saturday 27th October 2007. Congratulations to Northallerton CC who were just one point behind with 183 points and will be the other club competing at Connahs Quay in October.

In the Print Championship Dr John Davies ARPS DPAGB of Stokesley PS was awarded the Best Colour Print and Alan Porrett ARPS, AFIAP, DPAGB, APAGB of Whitley Bay PS the Best Monochrome Print.

The Slide Championship was won by Northallerton CC who beat 2nd placed Sunderland PA by 16 points. These two clubs will represent the NCPF at the PAGB Slide Championships at Warwick in July.

We send Northallerton CC our hearty congratulations for their achievement in representing the NCPF in both the Slide and Print Championships this year.

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November 2006

Stokesely won the print section and took third place in the slide section of the NYSD Inter-club competition which resulted in the club being placed second overall.

In the individual Cleveland Salver print competition the winner was Guy Davies and David Smith took 3rd place. Several other club members' prints were Highly Commended.

See Guy's winning picture here.

July 2006

Paula Davies has been awarded the ARPS distinction in the Visual Arts category. Her successful panel can be viewed here.

June 2006

David Smith has been awarded a Fellowship of the RPS in the Nature category.

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2005

Stokesley and Northallerton Score in National Championships

Stokesley Photographic Society and Northallerton Camera Club represented the Northern Counties Photographic Federation in the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain National Slide Championships at Warwick on Saturday 9th July.  

With a total of 33 clubs from the whole of Great Britain taking part, the championship is organised into two initial rounds of eight slides from each club, with the top eight clubs going into the final, and with a separate trophy to be contested for the remaining clubs.

At the end of the first round, Stokesley was leading, with Northallerton lying third.  After the second round, Stokesley was second and Northallerton fourth.  For the first time in the history of the championship, Northern Counties had both its representative clubs in the final.

The final of 20 slides from each of the eight clubs was hard fought and the result was Stokesley sharing second place with Amersham and Northallerton in fifth position.  In addition, John Davies achieved a maximum 15 marks for “Come in Number 5” and one Northallerton slide was awarded a Bronze medal.

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Stokesley PS achieved 1st place in the Northern Counties Photographic Federation annual colour slide competition, with Sandy’s Bluebells and Oaks coming second in the overall competition.  Both Sandy’s slide and Bryum & Ceratodon by David L Smith will be part of the Federations entry into the PAGB Slide Exhibition this year.  John L Davies was awarded the Hilton Trophy for the best non-conventional slide with Come in Number 5.  The club didn’t do so well in the print competition but Paula Davies had two colour prints, Waiting and Who’s There?, selected for the Federation entry into the PAGB Print Exhibition.

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Another double success in the 2005 Algarve Exhibition.  This time it’s Guy Davies who has been awarded a PSA Gold Medal for a colour print, Barren Landscape, and a FIAP Silver Medal for a monochrome print, Mountain Weather.

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Sandy achieves a double in the 2005 Minneapolis St Paul PSA sponsored exhibition, being awarded PSA Gold, Best of Show for “Tuscany, Creative Landscape” and PSA Gold, Best Creative for “Bluebells and Oaks”.

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Congratulations to Sandy Furniss for being awarded a Silver Medal and a Bronze Medal for slides entered into the Austrian “World of Images” PSA exhibition circuit.

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February 2005

Stokesley PS and Northallerton CC to represent NCPF at the PAGB Slide Championships in Warwick

At the NCPF Slide Championships held at Washington, Co Durham, on 13th February 2005, Stokesley finished in second place to winners, Northallerton.  These two clubs will travel to Warwick on 9th July to represent the NCPF at the PAGB slide championships, a competition between all 15 photographic federations in Great Britain.

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