7 Way Interclub Print Competition at Morpeth - Tuesday 12th November 2019.
On Tuesday 12th November Morpeth Camera Club hosted this season’s NCPF Northern Area 7 - Way Interclub Print
Competition where prints from our club competed against those from Alnwick, Amble, Ashington, Blyth and Cambois
camera clubs. Each club had entered four monochrome and four colour prints which were judged by Dave Phillips of
Hartlepool Photographic and Digital Group. Dave commented on each photograph judging each on their range of tones,
sharpness, subject detail, quality of printing and presentation, before giving a mark out of thirty.
The judge began by saying that he was impressed by the high standard of work this year, adding that there were no
real losers; this competition is an opportunity for clubs to showcase their best photographs and an excuse for a good
get together. Included in the monochrome section were portraits of a tattooed boxer, hooded coalman, a sepia toned
bearded character, a beautiful Goth girl and a burly tyre fitter. Exotic wildlife, retro images of clocking in at the factory
gate and a wartime RAF ops girl, snowy landscapes, a study of a poker players hand of cards, graphic architecture and
moody metro scenes were also included.
The colour section followed with Blyth pier on a frosty morning and at sunrise, a dramatic waterfall, a lone puffin on one
leg, a detailed bird of prey, still life tulips, a blacksmith at the forge, a colourful Bedouin with camel, soft portraits, church
interiors and exteriors, Hebridean shores, a wrecked, decaying boat, a Goth with crimson hair, stormy seas at Newbiggin
and Scottish landscapes. In a high scoring and close competition, two prints had gained the maximum thirty marks,
Liverpool Museum Steps by Glyn Trueman from Morpeth Camera Club and Big Stick by Richard Turnbull from Ashington
Camera Club and when all the individual prints scores had been added together the result was as follows -
1st Morpeth Camera Club - 220 marks.
2nd Alnwick Camera Club - 211 marks.
3rd Ashington Camera Club - 208 marks.
4th Blyth Photographic Society - 207 marks.
5th Amble Photographic Group - 205 marks.
6th Cambois Camera Club - 204 marks.
The trophy was received on behalf of the club by Morpeth Print Secretary, Peter Downs after which a buffet supper was
enjoyed and the prints were exhibited for all to peruse at close range. Vice Chair, Sue Dawson thanked Dave for judging
the competition and for his useful tips and advice before thanking the many visitors who had turned up to support their
clubs on such a wet and windy November evening.
Thanks to Glyn Trueman, Sue Dawson, Davy Bolam, Peter Downs, Dave Bisset and Sophie Elliott Edwards who's prints
made up the winning Morpeth entry. This evening was a great club effort and a big thanks also to the Morpeth members
who supplied food for the buffet supper, donated raffle prizes, looked after our guests and then cleared up afterwards.
Steph.
Competition where prints from our club competed against those from Alnwick, Amble, Ashington, Blyth and Cambois
camera clubs. Each club had entered four monochrome and four colour prints which were judged by Dave Phillips of
Hartlepool Photographic and Digital Group. Dave commented on each photograph judging each on their range of tones,
sharpness, subject detail, quality of printing and presentation, before giving a mark out of thirty.
The judge began by saying that he was impressed by the high standard of work this year, adding that there were no
real losers; this competition is an opportunity for clubs to showcase their best photographs and an excuse for a good
get together. Included in the monochrome section were portraits of a tattooed boxer, hooded coalman, a sepia toned
bearded character, a beautiful Goth girl and a burly tyre fitter. Exotic wildlife, retro images of clocking in at the factory
gate and a wartime RAF ops girl, snowy landscapes, a study of a poker players hand of cards, graphic architecture and
moody metro scenes were also included.
The colour section followed with Blyth pier on a frosty morning and at sunrise, a dramatic waterfall, a lone puffin on one
leg, a detailed bird of prey, still life tulips, a blacksmith at the forge, a colourful Bedouin with camel, soft portraits, church
interiors and exteriors, Hebridean shores, a wrecked, decaying boat, a Goth with crimson hair, stormy seas at Newbiggin
and Scottish landscapes. In a high scoring and close competition, two prints had gained the maximum thirty marks,
Liverpool Museum Steps by Glyn Trueman from Morpeth Camera Club and Big Stick by Richard Turnbull from Ashington
Camera Club and when all the individual prints scores had been added together the result was as follows -
1st Morpeth Camera Club - 220 marks.
2nd Alnwick Camera Club - 211 marks.
3rd Ashington Camera Club - 208 marks.
4th Blyth Photographic Society - 207 marks.
5th Amble Photographic Group - 205 marks.
6th Cambois Camera Club - 204 marks.
The trophy was received on behalf of the club by Morpeth Print Secretary, Peter Downs after which a buffet supper was
enjoyed and the prints were exhibited for all to peruse at close range. Vice Chair, Sue Dawson thanked Dave for judging
the competition and for his useful tips and advice before thanking the many visitors who had turned up to support their
clubs on such a wet and windy November evening.
Thanks to Glyn Trueman, Sue Dawson, Davy Bolam, Peter Downs, Dave Bisset and Sophie Elliott Edwards who's prints
made up the winning Morpeth entry. This evening was a great club effort and a big thanks also to the Morpeth members
who supplied food for the buffet supper, donated raffle prizes, looked after our guests and then cleared up afterwards.
Steph.