Editorial

Staff · Issue 95, Mar/Apr 2017 · pp. 4

Editorial UPY 2017 I couldn’t let this issue go by without mentioning UPY 2017 and to say a big thank you to all of you who took part and contributed to the biggest ever entry. With over 4,500 images, we were 35% up and with entrants from 67 countries, that was a 25% increase. The most pleasing increase, came from the number of entries in the Compact category and especially the British Compact category. Both of these are aimed at encouraging those users to feel included and given their space away from SLR users. Take a detailed look at the winners in both of these categories and you will see that their results are equally as impressive as the others. But these are just statistics. What is not possible to quantify statistically is the standard of entries this year and these have definitely gone up another gear. You surpassed last years extremely high standards and took UPY 2017 to a new l…