Club Meeting, Chairmans Challenge 3 - Tuesday 16th April 2024.

  

On Tuesday 16th April 2024, Morpeth Camera Club members met to view the entries submitted for the season's third
and final Chairmans Challenge. With ‘Wheels’ being the overall theme, this challenge was for each member to submit
a minimum of four images that depicted 'Any number of Wheels'. Thirteen members had accepted the challenge and
submitted sixty six images that showed great imagination and creativity.

  

This was an in-house challenge without a winner, and members were encouraged to comment on their images and
explain where and why they had been taken, and any creative process that had been introduced. A great variety of
wheels showed that many members had seen and recorded the obvious such as bicycle wheels, aircraft wheels, car
wheels and train wheels, whilst others had found the not-so-obvious pully wheels, flywheels, pit winding wheels and
water wheels.

  

Closer to home members had photographed old toy cars, lego wheels, gear wheels and cogs inside a clock, shopping
trolly wheels at a supermarket and an old wheelbarrow. Other locations included a workshop at Beamish, Tanfield
Railway, Eshott Airfield, and further afield we saw shots taken in the Yorkshire Dales, Lucca in Italy, Torun in Poland,
and Loix in southwest France.

       

Chairman Peter Downs thanked everyone who had supported the challenge and we are indebted to the following
members who have allowed images to be displayed in this report. Davy Bolam, Stephanie Robson, Eric Anderson,
Dave Bisset, Gordon Hine, Karin Jackson, Glyn Trueman, David Moore, Peter Downs, Keith Pratt, Paul Appleby, Pat
Wood and Jeremy Cooper.