Club Meeting, Pdi Knockout & Xmas Buffet -Tuesday 16th December 2025.

                                            
                                                1st. Bonnet Fungi.                           2nd. Fire Ducks.

On Tuesday 16th December Morpeth Camera Club held their last meeting before the Christmas break by staging their
annual Pdi Knock-Out Competition. This is a fun event with no marking involved which gives members the opportunity
to display their images and to gauge reaction to their work. Eighty-four images were entered and were projected onto
the screen two at a time with the audience being invited to vote for their favourite, which then went into the next round
of the contest.

The entries were, as usual, an eclectic mix of images which included bees which vied with trains, abstracts with moody
interiors, still life against the Milky Way, Intentional Camera Movement was pitched against triptychs and garden birds
against fungi. In the initial rounds the voting is based solely on one’s own preferences but as the rounds progressed,
the focus had to be on how much expertise has been at play when taking the picture.

With the use of software, the previously chosen images were shuffled and entered into the next round. This led to tuts
and groans from the audience when faced with two of their preferred images which were placed next to each other. As
the rounds progressed images were reduced from the initial 84, finally down to the last two. They were Bonnet Fungi;
a lovely backlit group of three cream coloured fungi, which showed vein detail by Glyn Trueman and Fire Ducks; two
ducks silhouetted in a mist of graduated colours of red and gold by Natalie Wright.

After several recounts, the voting remained equal and club Chairman Jeremy Cooper who had the final casting vote,
declared the winner of this years’ Pdi Knock-Out Competition to be Glyn‘s Bonnet Fungi. A round of applause was given
to both finalists and to everyone who had supported the competition. A friendly evening of club photography was then
followed by our traditional Christmas pooled supper.

The club will begin the new season on Tuesday 6th January 2026, when we look forward to an interesting programme
of guest speakers, members’evenings and photographic competitions.