North Wales Koi Club Forum

North Wales Koi Society
Photo Show 2008
Results also on main website: http://www.northwaleskoi.co.uk/articles ... 8-results/

On Tuesday night 4th November, many of the NWKS members gathered for the annual Photo Show awards night at the Farmer’s Arms’, Rhuallt. Throughout September & October Dave S Wilson had been ‘snapping away’ at koi from 13 separate ponds. In total 46 fish were photographed, totalling nearly 200 meters worth of Baby, Adult and Jumbo Koi !

Over the past few years NWKS has been lucky enough to establish close ties with several companies involved with Koi keeping. Our commercial friends came up trumps in 2008 by donating prizes for our Photo Show, so a big Thank you to them all.
Evolution Aqua (Mike Shaw) donated two Airtech 90 air pumps and 4 tubs of EA Show and EA Health foods which were awarded to the First places & Runners up in the Gosanke and Non Gosanke categories as well as Grand Champion.
Richard and Donna Jones from Richdon Koi offered several tubs of their superb Nutrikoi Paste, Performance and Growth Koi foods which were awarded to the Baby, Jumbo and Novelty Koi classes. Koi Magazine provided annual subscriptions to their magazine for the Winners of the “Chairman’s Choice” section. Koi Carp Magazine provided the Winner and Runner up of the NWKS Friendship award 12 months subscription to the magazine.
Results
Grand Champion
74cm Kohaku owned by Colin Jones. Gosanke Champion
45cm Showa owned by Dave S Wilson. Non Gosanke Champion
47cm Shiro Utsuri owned by Dave (jock) Wilson Baby Champion
33cm Kohaku owned by Colin Jones Jumbo Champion
66cm Shiro Utsuri owned by Colin Jones. Club Champion
48cm Showa owned by Dave S.Wilson Novelty Koi
37cm Doistu Sanke owned by Martin Rocliffe. Chairman's Choice Gosanke
51cm Kohaku owned by Steve Rogers. Chairman's Choice Non Gosanke
50cm Kujaku owned by Robert Ford NWKC Friendship Award
Ken Williams.

Our competition was judged by Greg Sutton who people may know as a moderator from the http://www.koihelp.co.uk bulletin board. Greg has a wealth of knowledge about Koi health, varieties and judging. Despite the distance from Greg’s home in the Midlands to N Wales he insisted on being there on the night to present the awards and provide helpful summaries & advice. A superb effort and much appreciated.

The evening went off fantastically, with the usual banter and good humour from the audience aimed mainly at the Master of Ceremonies (i.e. Me!) and some of the Winners.

Some of the winning koi were of a size and quality that many of us only dream of, and were perhaps out of the price range of many hobbyists. Interestingly though, many of our winning Koi and the Runners up from the smaller size categories were from the ‘Bargain basement’ tanks of various Koi dealers. It just goes to prove that a Koi costing around £50 can be brought on to a size and quality that can win prizes at club level. I fully expect to see some of the placed Baby and Adult koi winning the NWKS Jumbo or GC in the future.
Congratulations and “da iawn” for our winners and a huge North Wales Koi Society “Diolch yn fawr” Thank you to our sponsors for their continued support.

Martin Rocliffe
Chairman NWKS

Well done to everyone who entered some superb koi amongst the winners.
I hope other people get to see the pics as it has become a very quiet forum

The NWKS forum has been quiet recently

I'm glad the Photo Show went off OK. It took a huge amount of organising, mainly by Dave Wilson and myself

I'd be interested in having some feed back from members to see if they liked the format, or if changes are needed for next year?

I don't want to 'Dumb it down' too much, but we need to encourage members with 'Pond fish' rather than 'mega Koi' to at least have a go
That said, at least 5 of the winning Koi were bought in the £50 range, so Not expensive.

Martin

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What's wrong with my photo's

Dave.

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I hear what you are saying.
But to able to judge a koi when,
1. Not taken with same camera.
2. Not taken in the same bowl.
3. And even the same person.
4. The koi not behaving.
would be rather difficult,

I am still struggling to get the right setup, for the best results. As can be seen in some of the photo's.(you should see the bad ones)
As an example to get the 46 koi with good enough photo's to be judged, I took over 300 photo's!!!!
Sometimes the quality of the photo can and will influence the result, because if the sharpness is down a bit, you cannot see the koi to it's best advantage.

Dave.

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