This year the North Tyne was hosted by Whitley Bay Photographic Society, at the King Street Club the home North Shields Camera Club. As usual we were greeted with a warm welcome. The judge on the night was Chris Graham of Ashington Camera Club, Who explained the usual guidelines of the competition and that like all judges, this is only his opinion! After a very detailed critique by Chris the scores were counted and results announced! 1 st Place – North Shields 2 nd Place – Gosforth 3 rd Place – Cramlington 4 th Place – Whitley Bay and Tynemouth. Les Smith from Whitley Bay received 30 points for his “The Strummer” Followed by a buffet. Colin Livingstone Inter club secretary
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On Thursday evening Cramlington Camera Club Hosted the first leg of 4Way Inter Club, competition PDI’s. Our Judge on the night was Stephen Fowler of Ryton & District Camera Club.
After the usual introductions Stephen proceeded to the task at hand. Giving his thoughts and critique on the 40 images that were entered. He did say that it had been a pleasure to look at so many good images presented to him. His delivery was methodical and positive. He gave the image “Gannet Food Dispute” 30 points, this was an entry from Gosforth. Final scores were 1st Morpeth 263 points 2nd Gosforth 261 points 3rd Gateshead 244 points 4th Cramlington 243 points We now look forward to the 2nd leg in Febuary 2024 Colin Livingstone Interclub Secretary The winning and highly commended images can be found here, and the placings are below. Highly Commended of the 1st PDI for the website. Great Horned Owl (Peter Moody) Dahlia (Pauline Wilson) Beside the Sea (Pauline Wilson) Sea Holly (Colin Livingstone) Flying High (Paul Dunn) Winners 5th Greek Café Culture (Ray Barnes) 4th White Sands – Blue Sky (Brian Sidney) 3rd Light and Shadow (Brian Sidney) 2nd 199 (Colin Livingstone) 1st Red Arrows at Work (Tom Wilson) Editors Musings I was not there on the night, so in the absence of watching the judging, i'll instead do something a little different. As the web editor, this is my pick of the winners. As you know i'm a big fan of street photography, so I gravitated towards the 3 Greek gentlemen sitting round the table, chatting and watching life go by. Its just nice to capture a moment in time and I wonder what they discussed on the day? If you look carefully there is a reflection inside the cafe of someone sitting in the cafe.
A fun night had by all, playing with lights and mirrors to create many different and interesting effects. A simple setup of two continuous lights was used, to illuminate the subjects, and we simply experimented. Here I created a double exposure using some defocused lights that were hanging in front of a black background, then combined it with another subject, some items sitting on a mirror Bob, took this great shot of the book from a different angle and you can see that it totally changes the look of the image, really making use of the reflection. Big thanks to Adam, who stood in as a model for us!
12th Oct saw the results of this season’s 1st Open Print Competition. The competition was judged by Chris Graham from Ashington Camera Club.
Chris provided constructive and positive feedback on each of the prints which was well received by the members. With the wide range of subjects Chris had a difficult task to decide on the best prints. Congratulations go to Colin Livingstone who stole the show taking 1st place in both the mono and colour competitions. Colin Livingstone also pulled off a “straight” in the colour completion, with 1st, 2nd and 3th places. At the end of the evening Chris stayed behind to talk to the members about the prints and provide additional feedback to individual members. A full list of the prints 'placed' and' highly commended' are shown below. To view the images, both colour and mono click here Paul Dunn (Print Competition Secretary) Colour Mono
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Highly Commended Gothic Perspective Ray Barnes Driving Spirit Paul Dunn Behind the Angel Peter Moody Highly Commended Gothic Perspective Ray Barnes Driving Spirit Paul Dunn Behind the Angel Peter Moodydit. 3rd August Here are some pictures from our latest walk, along the river at Humford Mill (Bedlington) the river had plenty of water running due to all the wet weather we have had recently. Thanks to all who could make it our next walk will be on Thursday 17th at Seaton Sluce for a walk around the harbour and the back of the Kings Arms pub. July 20th A small group of members went for an evening walk along Cambois beach towards the mouth of the River Wansbeck. There are a lot of interesting things to photography here, as towards the end of the walk you reach a boat yard. Here are a few images from the walk Mick Hooper Natalie Wright This week we held the Chris Crane Cup an annual event in memory of Chris.
This year’s judge was Joe Sheridan (F.D.A. BA (Hons) ARPS) from Washington. Joe started out by saying how difficult a task he had this year as the standard of images from our members was so high. In a change to the usual format Joe started off his comments/critique in his own humorous and jovial manner. With very positive things to say about all the images. The format change came as he announced 5 highly commended and the top five images at the end. The winning image being an excellent mirror reflection of a beached fishing boat, “Not a Reflection” by Bill Leadbitter. Thank you and well done to everyone who entered, Winners Top 5 5, The Jackobite - Iain Chambers 4, Dragon Fly - Brian Vandemast 3, Watchfull Tiger - Ray Barnes 2, Birds Eye - Ray Barnes 1, Not a Reflection - Bill Leadbitter Highly commended Blyth Beach - Colin Livingstone Canada Geese Adam Burness Starburst - Natalie Wright Bollihope Quarry -Bob Finlay Embelton Rocks - Colin Livingstone Red Fog - Steve Miller Gallery of all images here Last night, 28th March 2023, Whitley Bay Photographic Society held the North Tyne PDI competition at King Street Club North Shields. The event was well supported by most of the clubs entering and was judged by Dave Phillips of Saltburn PS. Congratulations to Gosforth C.C. for their success at winning the Evening Chronicle Trophy for the 8th time in the competition’s history. Congratulations also go to Joan Shepard for her brilliant image “The Apothecary” which won the Bonser Shield for the best image in the competition. Cramlington can fourth overall with 213 points, Individual scores as follows;-
Tonight we had the results of the third Open PDI competition judge by Peter Downs. Peter started by saying the standard of entries was very high. Not only was it very difficult to separate several of the images there were also several very well composed and exposed images that would be lifted to even better ones with subtle tweaks to the levels.
The results were 1st Fia, Bob Finlay 2nd Mandarin Love, Natalie Wright 3rd Wartime Goodbye, Ray Barnes 4th Left Hand Down a Bit, Brain Sidney 5th Lunch, Bob Finlay Highly commended Hurry Up, Paul Dunn Next Collection is, Brian Sidney Night Lights, Brian Sidney Pink Vista, Natalie Wright Sun ray Tyne Bridge, Steve Miller Congratulations to all the winners, especially to Bob, Brian and Natalie who had more than one image listed above. Gallery linked here |
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