On Thursday, 28th March 2024 Cramlington Camera Club hosted the North Tyne PDI interclub Competition, which was Judged by Jim Welsh LRPS, CPAGB, APAGB.
Our President Chris Haughton opened the proceedings by giving a warm welcome to all our guests and members. He then introduced Jim to the audience, and gave a brief résumé of Jim’s achievements in the field of judging.
Jim started by explaining his personal technique and style of judging. As with other judges his thoughts and opinions might differ from the authors of the images entered. He also commented “this was one of the best entries he had seen in many months” so had made his job very difficult.
His style was very interesting and he gave a very detailed resume of each image, talking and explaining the story of each image as “he” the viewer saw it. His praise for the photographer’s skill was very evident. He offered a lot of helpful information about each image, commenting on focus, depth of field and composition. Jim is a high scoring judge so it soon became a very tight competition. Jim awarded six 30 point images, with ‘Got You’ by Graeme Crombie of North Shields being the overall best image.
Other images scoring 30 points were ‘Red Kite’ by Brenda Jefferson of Gosforth, ‘199’ by Colin Livingstone of Cramlington, ‘Derek’ by Bob Finlay of Cramlington, ‘Berry Redwing’ by Natalie Wright of Cramlington, ‘Jules in Motion’ by Colin Livingstone of Cramlington and ‘Victorian Craftsmanship at St Georges’ by Tim Watkinson of Gosforth.
Chris then read out the final scores: Cramlington 1st with 223 points, Joint 2nd N.Shields & Gosforth 221, 4th Whitley Bay 218, 5th Tynemouth 215, and 6th Ponteland 213.
He then thanked everyone for their efforts, then introduced Jim once more to hand out the trophies to the winners, which were Chris on behalf of Cramlington Camera Club and Doreen Hart on behalf of Graeme Crombie of North Shields Photographic Society.
Everyone then moved on to the buffet for a chat and catch up along with some food and drink.
Colin Livingstone
Interclub secretary
Northern Counties Photographic Federation 