THURSDAY 17th DECEMBER 2020
CHRISTMAS KNOCKOUT COMPETITION
Tradition this Christmas for Tyndale Photography Club, like so many other clubs and societies, has just flown out of the window! No setting out the chairs! No decorating the tables! No arranging the food and preparing the drinks! But hang on, no way is this virus going to stop the tradition of our Christmas Knockout Competition!
With thanks to Steve Stone and David Brookes ARPS we were able to enjoy our Winter social evening over Zoom. Like every previous year, the images (over seventy of them) were shown in pairs and then a vote was taken for the preferred image. As voting by a show of hands wasn’t viable this year, after the images were shown we were able to vote for our favourite ‘on-line’, tick box A or box B and submit – what could be easier? Even though we weren’t all in the same room you could feel the tension building up as the task of choosing which image you preferred got harder and harder as the evening went by. After the last vote was taken the final four images were displayed for us all to see. The authors of the equal third images identified themselves as Steve Varman LRPS and Steve Stone. Barbara Gibbons took second place with her image ‘Anenome with Bee’ but it was Steve Varman LRPS who took first place with his image ‘Masquerade’. Both Steve and Barbara won a Christmas cake baked, beautifully decorated and donated by Gloria Pritchard.
After watching an amusing audio visual created by Jenny Fryer LRPS, Brian Wetton wound up the evening by thanking each and every member for making the evening a success and for their continued support during this difficult time.