Our last meeting of 2009 found us with Christmas Fare - nuts crisps mince pies and mulled wine brought by some members (who I will not name as I do not know who they were sadly; but thank you)
We started the evening with the presentation of a cup by Paul to Chairman Peter which he won at the recent Sussex Fed P I competition for the Best Image_his study of 'Katie'. Peter could not come to the competition as he was away and this all came as a complete surprise to him. Very well done Peter.
Next we had a quiz in which we had to identify camera club members from images taken of just our eyes by Tim last week. This was won by Daisy and Di Walker who both recognised all the images. One or two male members only got 2 or 3 and one did not even recognise his own wife!! You can deduce from this who is watching who!?
The main business of the evening was the Mix and Match competition. The photography club had been divided into two teams led by Daisy and Di. One team put up an image - out of 50 PIs which had been pre-selected by the teams - and then the opposing team had to match the PI with one from their own bank. Tim was the judge and had to say whether this PI was a match or not and which was the best image out of the two and award marks accordingly. This led to much loud banter from all and sundry as to whether they agreed or not.
Daisy's team started off very well but then Di's team pulled right ahead by the time we had a short break. During the last bout Di's team were very confident that they were still leading; but the final scores showed otherwise!
It was a very jolly evening with a lot of laughter and mingling and our thanks go to Tim for his excellent organisation.