Club Meeting, Members Pdi Knockout - Tuesday 20th December 2022.

                                 
                                              1st. Blue.                                 2nd. Installation.

On Tuesday 20th December 2022, at the last meeting before the Christmas break, Morpeth Camera Club held
their annual Pdi Knock-Out Competition. This is a fun event with no marking involved and an opportunity for
members to display their images and to gauge reaction to their work. Eighty eight images were entered which
were projected onto the screen two at a time, with the audience voting for their favourite which then went into
the next round of the knock out.

As is usual in this type of contest the subjects were of totally different genres which included pattern pictures,
portraits, beach huts, seabirds and raptors, still life, firelight, dancers, trees, leaves and berries, which all vied
with each other. In the initial rounds the voting is usually based solely on ones own taste and preferences but
as the rounds progressed more thought had to be given as to how the image was composed and what expertise
had been used when taking the picture.

With the use of special software, the previously chosen images were shuffled and entered into the next round
and quite often two of ones preferred images were pitched against each other and groans of frustration could
be heard from the audience. As the rounds progressed images were reduced from the initial eighty eight to
sixty four, then thirty two down to sixteen. As we dropped down to eight and then four, popular images had
been a lighthouse, a stairwell, a cobbled street and the Infinity Bridge.

Finally the last two were revealed; an illuminated inflatable figure, looming over a tiny silhouetted spectator
taken by Brian Morris which was pitted against wind turbines on the horizon with a foreground of gradations
of blue sea taken by Stephanie Robson. In a final vote, the audience decided that the minimalist seascape by
Stephanie was the winner of this years Pdi Knock Out Competition. A much deserved round of applause was
given to both finalists and to Glyn Trueman for his technical skills with the complicated software. A friendly
and amusing evening of photography was rounded off by our traditional Xmas pooled supper.

The club will start the next season on Tuesday 3rd January when we can look forward to another interesting
programme of guest speakers, members’ evenings and competitions.