External successes
This page shows some of our members' successes achieved in photo contests organised by outside organisations, eg, KCPA and PAGB events.
2017 KCPA Annual Print and PDI Competition
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A PAGB Ribbon was earned for:
- Lights over Lofoten by David Barker Merit Awards were earned for:
- Surfing on Storm Doris by David Barker
- Juvenile Chinstrap penguins feeding by Peter Humphrey and in addition to the above recognition, Acceptances were gained by:
- David Barker: Around the Camp Fire
- Peter Humphrey: After Sunset; Shadow Play; Gentoo Penguin Colony, Antarctica
- Pat Jones FRPS EFIAP MPAGB APAGB: Quick Mum it's Following Me; Stopping to Admire the Storm Clouds
- Derek Medhurst: Mona Lisa, The Louvre
- Sheila Sargeant: Fulvous Whistling Duck Juveniles; Osprey Fledglings Branching Out; Osprey Female with Spotted Sea Trout.
2016 KCPA Diamond Jubilee Competition
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Merit Awards were earned by:
- Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud, Namibia by Peter Humphrey
- Klimt Glimpsed by Marcus Rainbow
2016 KCPA Annual Print and PDI Competition
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A PAGB Ribbon was earned for
- Approaching snow storm by Pat Jones FRPS EFIAP MPAGB APAGB A Certificate of Merit was earned for
- The Librarian by Peter Humphrey ARPS The following Acceptances for the exhibition were also gained in addition to the above recognition:
- Mark Charrington: “Waiting for his master”
- Peter Dillon: “Could You Tell Me The Time Please”, “Skyward” and “Wheelers”
- Peter Humphrey ARPS: “Canada Water Library”, “Milky Way, Namibia”, “Three Orbs”, and “Tate Britain Staircase”.
- Pat Jones FRPS EFIAP MPAGB APAGB: “Circumhorizon Arc, Lindisfarne” and “Gathering Clouds”
- Derek Medhurst: “The home straight” and “Framed”
- Mike Robinson: “One Second Woodland”
- Sheila Sargeant: “Arial Attack”
- Roy Smart: “Museum Of Liverpool II”
2016 PAGB Inter-Federation competitions
The following pictures were selected by the KCPA to represent them in the 2016 PAGB Inter-Federation competitions.
- Canada Water Library by Peter Humphrey ARPS
- Milky Way, Namibia by Peter Humphrey ARPS
- The Librarian by Peter Humphrey ARPS
- Approaching snow storm by Pat Jones FRPS EFIAP MPAGB APAGB who won a PAGB Blue Ribbon for this photo
- Circumhorizon Arc, Lindisfarne by Pat Jones FRPS EFIAP MPAGB APAGB
- Arial Attack by Sheila Sargeant
Acceptances in international exhibitions
Some Club members enter their photos personally into competitions/exhibitions of international standing. Those we know of who have achieved “acceptances” in 2016 are:
- Peter Humphrey ARPS
- Derek Medhurst
- Roy Smart
Stereo photography exhibitions
Member Derek Medhurst has also been taking stereo photographs for a while and in late 2015 started entering a few in international stereo exhibitions. (These are submitted personally, not via Sevenoaks Camera Club.) He has been pleasantly surprised by some successes, including the following awards.
- “Fish course” won the 2016 H A Tregallas Medal for the Best Newcomer in the 36th Southern Cross International Stereo Exhibition organised by the Sydney Stereo Camera Club in Australia.
- “Joy of Life” won the 2016 Best Novice Award in the Stereoscopic Society of America's 20th International Stereo Card Exhibiti on.
- “Camelot's driver” (taken at the Bluebell Railway, Sussex) won the Best Portrait or Figure Study Award in the 2017 Chicago Lighthouse International Stereo Exhibition, sponsored by the Chicago Stereo Camera Club.
