Its a knockout

Meeting Report

This evening we had our second 'Knockout' competition devised and run by John Gauvin, ably assisted by Alex. Last season we had our first similar competition using prints from everyone entering. This time it was three PIs and 69 were entered. Two images were projected side by side on the screen and we voted with a show of hands with our choice of the best image. Alex counted the votes and if there were an equal number of votes for each image, Alex settled the result with the toss of a coin,(a £1 before the break and a 5p after_ the tea must have cost a lot!)

As there was no age limit on the images, we were treated to a selection of very good and interesting pictures. As the competition progressed it became more and more difficult to choose between the images as they were all very good. Someone remarked that we had all had a taste of the hard job that our judges have! I remember a few off the top of my head, two Ice Berg pictures; a Polar Bear taking a dip; the running gear of a steam locomotive, all stick in my mind, but the eventual very worthy winning image was of an Iceburg with lots of atmosphere taken by Roscoe Turner, (he should have been a radio DJ with a name like that?) who won the winner’s bottle of wine presented by Anne.

Afterwards we had a run through of all the entries, shown full size, and the authors were able to tell us about them and we were able to comment.

The whole evening was a fun affair with lots of laughs thanks to two of our top comedians.

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