Club Meeting, Members Pdi Knockout - Tuesday 21st December 2021.

                  
                                1st. Damselfly.                              2nd. Rising from the Water.

On Tuesday 21st December 2021, Morpeth Camera Club staged their annual Digital Knockout competition
to mark the last meeting before Christmas. This is a fun event with no marks or judges comments, where
two images are projected at the same time and the audience select their favourite to progress to the next
round. Sixty Two images were entered and as the losing images are eliminated the numbers remaining in
the competition decrease until only two are left.

Once again members had entered a good selection of work as architectural images came up against a still
life, birds came up against steam trains, abstracts versus art and people vied with landscapes. In the early
rounds it appeared to be relatively easy where the audience could be subjective and could choose images
which were to their taste but as the contest progressed it soon became more important to choose an image
where there had been more thought or expertise, or where faults or detail had been missed on first viewing.

After each round, the images were again shuffled by the computer software programme and then randomly
displayed and there were groans from the audience when two popular images came up together forcing a
difficult choice as to which one progressed. There was also good humour as the occasional image only got
one vote making it quite obvious who the owner was or on another occasion when two images by the same
author came up against each other.

In two very close semi-finals, A Northumbrian Sunset by Dave Bisset was knocked out by a monochrome
image of reeds in water, and a monochrome image of a wicker basket by Roseanne Robinson was knocked
out by an image of a Blue Damselfly. So we had our finalists and the audience had a very difficult choice,
but after a final show of hands, Rising from the Water by Gordon Hine was the runner up and Damselfly by
Glyn Trueman had been voted the winner of the member's Knockout Competition 2021.

                  
                       3rd. Northumberland Sunset.                       3rd. Wicker Basket.

Following a review of all the images, Club joint-chair Roseanne Robinson thanked everyone who had taken
part and members enjoyed coffee and mince pies. Morpeth Camera Club now has a Christmas & New Year
break and resume meetings on the 4th January 2022.

Davy.