Set Subject – Patterns – 31st October 2022
Set Subject – Patterns – 31st October 2022 This was our first set subject competition of the season with the title of Patterns. An interesting topic which left lots of interpretation by members and resulted in a varied selection of images.Our judge, David Best LRPS from Hexham Photographic Society, provided an excellent commentary and we […]
Knockout Competition 10th October 2022
Knockout Competition – 10th October 2022 It was good to be back with everyone starting a new season after the COVID years and what better way to kick off our friendly competitions with the Knockout! Once again members came up with a great selection of attention grabbing pictures which made the voting process very close including […]
Set Subject – Still Life – 2nd December 2019
Set Subject – Still Life – 2nd December 2019A new area for most members so we ran a Still Life workshop last month to help out. This proved to be well worthwhile though as the competition certainly produced a wide range of high quality entries from members.Judge Jim Welsh from Blyth Photographic Society made some […]
Open PDI – 21st October 2019
Open PDI Competition – 21st Oct 2019Many thanks to Bill Broadley from Blyth Photographic Society for literally stepping in at the last minute to judge this year’s Digital Images competition. Jane Black was unfortunately hospitalised and Bill took on the responsibility of sifting through almost 50 images inside of four days – quite an achievement. […]
Knockout Competition – 30th September 2019
Knockout Competition – 30th Sept 2019The first competition of the season produced some excellent entries and made the decisions really close for the vote counters – several rounds even required re-counts as the tension mounted!At the end of the evening members chose an action shot of a Kingfisher – complete with stickleback – by Fara […]
Set Subject – Macro – 4th March 2019
Set Subject – Macro 4 March 2019The second Set Subject competition for the season featured Macros and close-up shots. We were lucky to secure the services of Peter Maguire LRPS CPAGB from Gosforth Camera Club with his extensive knowledge of flora & fauna as our judge. Peter was able to not only describe exactly what […]
Open PDI – 29th October 2018
Open PDI Competition 29 October 2018 Our judge, Catherine Ball, was very entertaining and her style of judging – appreciative and insightful, rather than overly critical, went down particularly well with members. She was really good at making suggestions aimed at revisiting our images to get even more out of them, without denigrating what had […]
Knockout Sept 2018
Knockout 17 September 2018 The first competition of the new season has arrived very early in our schedule this year but members still managed to enter an excellent selection of pictures to make the choice difficult! As usual two images are projected onto the screen side by side and members then vote for their preferred picture. The […]
Knockout #2
Set Subject – Knockout #2 20 March 2018 2018 saw the first time we have ever run two Knockout Competitions in a single season! But this time there was a slight restriction – only pictures which had been taken during the season could be entered into the competition. The idea was to showcase images members […]
Set Subject – Happiness
Set Subject – Happiness 12 March 2018 This PDI set subject certainly tested members imagination! There was plenty of happiness during the evening and some laugh out loud moments from the audience. Our judge for this competition was Mavis McCormick LRPS who is President of Hexham Photographic Society. Mavis chose John Atkinson’s black & white […]