Chelmsford YHA Group

CYHA News

The Monthly Newsletter of Chelmsford YHA Local Group

January 2006

Photo Competition 2005

Here are the winners of our annual photo competition to find the best pictures of CYHA events over the last year. Many thanks to all those who brought along their pics. It was a most entertaining evening and a great opportunity to remember all the wonderful trips we've had this year. There were dozens of excellent entries, and the voting was very close.

(Click on any picture to see a larger version)


Winner of Best Portrait category: Ali's picture of Dave P at Badby Hostel.

Dave P at Badby Hostel (Ali)
Walking in the Taunus Hills (Dave P)

Winner of Best Landscape category: Dave P's photo at Herzberg in the Taunus Hills, taken on our December trip to Frankfurt.

Runner-up in Landscape category: Dave J's picture of sunset at St.Helier, Jersey.

St.Helier sunset (Dave J)
Gosfield (Tom)

Winner of Spirit of CYHA category: Tom's picture of of our walk near Gosfiled, Essex.

Runner-up in Spirit of CYHA category: Dave J's picture of Cressida on our Norfolk cycling weekend.

Big Hill (Dave J)

Winner of Best Caption category:

(Tom's photo, Cressida's caption)


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Runner-up in Caption category: (Tom)
"We could always just take the map"

(Tom's photo of Mike, Dave J & Jonathan)

Mike, Dave, Jon (Tom)
John Maton (Dave J)

Runner-up in Caption category: (Dave J)
"Cup of tea anyone?"

(Dave J's photo of Elgar statue in Great Malvern)

Runner-up in Caption category: (Cress)
"Tom expected more excitement at the Miss Wales Beauty Contest"

(Jim's photo of Tom and Skirrid and some sheep)

Tom in Wales at New Year (Jim)

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