7 Way Interclub Category Competition - Tuesday 25th March 2025.

                                                       

                                           1st.   Morpeth Camera Club........................262 marks.
                                           2nd.  Amble Photographic Group.....................247 marks.
                                           3rd.  Blyth Photographic Society ....................244 marks.
                                           4th.  Cambios Camera Club...........................237 marks.
                                           5th.  Wooler Camera Club.............................227 marks.
                                           6th.  Alnwick Camera Club ...........................223 marks.
                                           7th.  Ashington Camera Club .......................214 marks.

On Tuesday 25th March 2025, Morpeth Camera Club hosted the Annual Seven Way Interclub PDI Category Competition.
In this event, each of the Seven clubs in the NCPF Northern Area has to enter ten images with not less than one and no
more than two images in the following categories - Landscape, Interiors, Human Figure & Portraits, Still Life, Flora and
Fauna, and Fantasy, Myth, Legend or Religion. The aim of the competition is to encourage club members to photograph
a range of different subjects throughout the season and produce a collective club entry to fit the categories.

Images in an interclub competition are expected to be of a high standard and are judged as such with less tolerance for
any perceived faults. Morpeth had invited Glen Lawson of Gateshead Camera Club to judge the competition and he then
commented on all seventy entries. His criteria was to first give his opinion as to whether the work fitted the category in
which it had been entered, to discuss the interest or feeling that the subject matter evoked, before awarding a mark out
of thirty.

It was clear that the judge had studied the images in great detail and his assessment and observations were consistent
throughout the evening. The scores for each club's individual images were added together and in a very good competition
Morpeth gained First place with 262 marks, followed by Amble, Blyth, Cambios, Wooler, Alnwick, and Ashington. At the
judge's discretion, one image may be awarded the maximum thirty marks, and this went to Blyth member Rick Young for
'Madonna Lily'.

In front of a full house Glen presented the trophy to Morpeth Club Chairman Peter Downs and the evening concluded with
a buffet supper provided by the Morpeth club members. Big thank you to everyone who contributed to a successful night
and to Glyn Trueman, Paul Appleby, Davy Bolam, Sue Dawson, Paul Kidd, Martin Goble and Peter Downs, whose images
made up our winning entry.

Davy.