2024-25 PDI League Results by Round

1

PDI Round 1

Date: Tuesday 1 October
Location: The Arc
Judge: Dr Paul Hendley LRPS, CPAGB

2

PDI Round 2

Date: Tuesday 5 November
Location: The Arc
Judge: Andrew Mills MA (Photo) MEd

3

PDI Round 3

Date:Tuesday 21 January
Location: The Arc
Judge: Chris Hutchinson

4

PDI Round 4

Date: Tuesday 11 March
Location: The Arc
Judge: Peter Crane ARPS

5

PDI Round 5

Date: Tuesday 22 April
Location: The Arc
Judge: Pietro Rocchiccioli BA (Hons) Photo, DPAGB EFIAP/b

PDI League table for 2024-25

At the end of the season a trophy is awarded to the winner of each league.

CompetitionTrophyWinner
PDI League, GoldSt Cross Bowl
PDI League, AdvancedKnight Cup
PDI League, IntermediateWessex Cup
PDI League, BeginnersWilliams Cup

If a tie occurs, the trophy is awarded to the person with the greatest number of first, then second, then third places and finally Highly Commended.

If there is still a tie, the trophy will be shared.

Distinctions: Many congratulations to members who achieve new distinctions. Please update your profiles in WebCollect and PhotoEntry, and tell the Competition Secretary.

This countback system for resolving ties is now implemented in the spreadsheet for every round.

Winning and Held Back Entries By Round

Click on any pane to see the winning and held back images in that class

A=Advanced, B=Beginners, G=Gold, I=Intermediate

See also the Internal Competition Image Archive

Entry instructions short version – for long version see PDI Image Upload Instructions

By the end of the Friday before the competition

  • Decide which image you are going to enter
  • Upload it via PhotoEntry

click events below for details

Location: The Arc


Dr Paul Hendley LRPS CPAGB

About Paul Hendley

Paul is a member of Bracknell Camera Club.

He qualified as a judge on the SCPF circuit at the end of 2018 and is now a Level 2+ judge.

His profile on the Bracknell Judges page tells us

I am a retired scientist who spent 60+ years believing I did not have an artistic bone in my body. Having seriously adopted photography at retirement, I have found it allows people like me to create something they (and others) can feel is beautiful. This has been eye-opening and very satisfying and, coming from a science background, it has been illuminating to start to learn the extent to which photographs can play directly on the emotions irrespective of their technical characteristics. An OU course helped me grasp the technical basics and I read extensively and attended many workshops etc. to extend my skills and knowledge culminating in my successful LRPS panel and CPAGB assessments. I am actively trying to expand my photography across genres but my comfort zone still lies in macro work.

I am thoroughly familiar with Lightroom and Photoshop but have a lot more to learn to reach the standard I feel I need to achieve to make the best of my image concepts.

We look forward to welcoming Paul to Winchester.

We don’t have an image of Paul, but his cover photo on Flickr is a little owl (though not this one)

In my younger years, I enjoyed being a US soccer referee for 10 or 12 years and so I am comfortable with making judgements that are not necessarily popular with all! My company was very strong on performance appraisals and so I am practiced with the principles and practice of constructive feedback.

Having received the excellent training from SCPF, I hope I will develop to be a successful club judge despite having seen how difficult the task can be – both in terms of differentiating between great images and being positive about less wonderful ones!

Last updated 2 October 2024

Location: The Arc


Judge and speaker: Andrew Mills MA (Photo) MEd CertEd ARPS

About Andrew Mills

According to Andrew’s website

Andrew is a professional photographer specialising in Advertising, Editorial and Commercial photography.

He has a professional practice covering all aspects of Studio and Location work, advertising, editorial, documentary and commercial projects for a broad range of clients.

Andrew is a qualified lecturer on all aspects of photography, from beginners to degree level.

He has staged exhibitions on a wide range of photographic subjects. He also runs Workshops, Talks, Lectures and Courses for to photographic clubs and societies.

One of the subjects in his talks/workshop portfolio is “Methods for Critique and Evaluation – Judging Club Photography”. His workshop notes include a useful “cheat sheet” on Analysis and Judgement of Amateur Photography

Andrew is a member of the Ordnance Survey Photographic Society

Andrew Mills

We’ve welcomed Andrew as our judge several times. He is a senior (Level 3) judge on the SCPF circuit.

In 2021-22, he was our judge for PDI Round 1. In 2020-21, he judged Print Round 1, and in 2019 he was a judge for the WPS Annual Exhibition

See also:

Andrew Mills Photography website:  Photomills

Last updated 2 October 2024

Location: The Arc


Judge: Chris Hutchinson

About Chris

Chris is a Level 3 judge on the SCPF circuit, a member of Yately Camera Club and a speaker at photography clubs.

Chris attended an art school as a teenager but was unable to complete his studies. He took up photography as a hobby instead but spent most of his career in the transport industry. Just after the Millennium, he found that the cost of printing photographs had fallen. He felt the need to embark on a project and see if he could publish or exhibit some of the results to the public.

He thought he’d try to capture the human body in new ways – after all, he thought, the human form is one of the commonest things around – everybody’s got one!

His project formed part of the Viewpoint travelling exhibition put on by The Photographic Angle

Interests and photography

You can see some of his work, covering his interests in Morris Dancing and in collecting images of pubs with “Bell” in their names on

Last updated 2 October 2024