Oscars night 26/06/24

Pictured here are the happy trophy winners following the awards made at HPIC’s very own Oscars night. For those who don’t know this is when those members who have had work ‘held back’ for commendation in our Annual Competition find out who has won each trophy and which certificates have been awarded.

Back row L to R: Graham Sykes (Creative digital trophy) ; Mark Turner (Macmillan and Roy Kirk Trophies, both for Nature); Richard Fulcher (Diamond Trophy for PDI Scapes); Sheelagh Davidson (Halifax Trophy for Portrait print); David Lockwood (Bernice Sheard Trophy for Intermediate print); Alan Stopher (Cooke Trophy for Open Mono print and Colin Sutcliffe Trophy for Record print); Clayton Manhertz (HPIC Cup for Sport Action Photojournalism PDI).

Front row L to R: Harry Wentworth (Joe Noble Trophy for Portrait PDI and Whiteley Trophy for Open Colour PDI); Ian Marshall (Swabey Trophy for Open Mono PDI, Armitage Trophy for Scapes print and Briggs Dyson Trophy for Open Colour print); Graham Dyson (Frank Heeley Trophy for Intermediate PDI); and Tony Renshaw (Colin Gower Cup for Travel print).

Absent on the day was Chris Cooke who won the George Major Rose Bowl for Beginners PDI.

Well done to all our trophy and certificate winners!

HPIC success at the YPU Assembly and Exhibition

HPIC has had a number of category award winners in recent years but 2024 has surpassed them all. The six images shown here were each winners in a print of Projected digital image category.

Sheelagh Davidson’s work won pride of place as Best Author and winner of the Halifax Trophy for her three winners and two certificates amongst her 7 accepted entries. Shown here are:

Learning to Trust – Winner of Open Colour Print trophy

Not My Favourite Book – Winner Portrait PDI trophy

Only in My Dreams – Winner Creative Print trophy

Our club’s other winners were:

Richard Fulcher with Lady in Waiting – Winner of Portrait Print trophy

Michael Hey with Clarence Dock in Leeds – Winner of Scapes PDI trophy

Tony Renshaw with Call to Morning Prayer, Ladakh – Winner of Travel Print trophy

Their high scoring entries helped HPIC to win the Keighley Challenge Trophy for the Best Overall Club for the second time in three years and the J E Barker Trophy for the Best Print Club.

Club members can be rightly proud of a most impressive showing. Well done to all who entered the YPU Annual Competition to find the best work in Yorkshire.

Monthly Challenge 4 - Print - Relating to places on a Huddersfield Monopoly Board 22/05/24

Our erstwhile Programme Secretary, Sue Gibson, had set us a locally-focused

challenge to photograph Huddersfield's equivalent of Pentonville Road and

Mayfair. Our members came back with 21 A4 prints picturing local buildings

and features. Inevitably there were many railway stations and Castle Hills

on show and members present were asked to vote for their first three prints.

Shown here are the three winning prints lined up on the easel.

Left to Right - Richard Fulcher's monopoly style creative take on

Huddersfield Railway Station and Harold Wilson statue (2nd place); Paul

Campbell's observant view of Huddersfield University Central Services

Building framed by the legs of the Creative Arts Building (1st Place);

Sheelagh Davidson's beautiful mono print of Lindley Clock Tower (3rd place).

Well done to the Paul, Richard and Sheelagh and thanks to those who gave the

critiques before the results were announced: George Fewster and Richard

Fulcher.