Photo competition

Crouch Valley Koi Club Photographic Competition 2016
As is now traditional, the November meeting was the culmination of our annual photographic competition.
This year saw a few changes to the format with members pairing up to photograph and measure their entries – so only one person to blame for poor photographs!
As in previous years, each member was allowed to enter up to 6 koi across all sizes and varieties. However, to keep the competition keen, rather than judge each size and class individually (with perhaps only one or two fish in a particular size and class, entries were grouped by size into go-sanke and non go-sanke.
Crouch Valley is lucky to be able to count BKKS Judge, Keith Bertie, amongst its ranks and as usual, he could be counted upon to take away the photos for his expert assessment and at our meeting he provided a critique of each fish and announced the winners.
For added interest this year, members were invited to supply a short video clip of their entrants which were also shown at the meeting.
Having chosen best go-sanke and non go-sanke in each size, Keith also selected: Baby Champion, Young Champion, Adult Champion, Mature Champion, Grand Champion and Best Non-Go Sanke (a new category this year).
Crouch Valley is extremely grateful to Vitalis for donating buckets of their new koi food for our 6 major winners.
Table of winners:
Paul Minter
Best Go Sanke Size 1
Alan Reeves
Best Non Go Sanke Size 2
Michael Thompson
Best Non Go Sanke Size 3
Tony Thompson
Best Go Sanke Size 4
Dave Thompson

Best Non Go Sanke Size 1

Best Go Sanke Size 2

Best Go Sanke Size 3

Best Non Go Sanke Size 4

Baby Champion

Young Champion
Andy Owen

Best Go Sanke Size 5

Best Go Sanke Size 6

Adult Champion

Mature Champion
Steve Rollins

Best Non Go Sanke Size 5

Best Non Go Sanke Size 6

Best Non Go Sanke Size 7

Best Overall Non Go Sanke

Grand Champion

Baby
Young
Adult
Mature
Non Go-Sanke
GC
Our major winners:

Videos of the winners can be seen on utube:
Baby Champ – https://youtu.be/CZNW3STQuF4
Young Champ – https://youtu.be/D77LTNnm90o
Adult Champ – https://youtu.be/5MBFi21TVng
Mature Champ – https://youtu.be/L7qJVLAqw2M
Best Non Go Sanke – https://youtu.be/dI9i-Qxw-Hc
Grand Champ – https://youtu.be/imbD3mDCooo

The winners collect their prizes:

Well done to all the winners and a big thank you to Keith for judging and presenting the results and to Tom and the team at Vitalis for supplying the prizes.