Come along to St Ives for a new look to our annual fixture against our local friends and rivals St Ives Photographic Club - a 'Mix and Match' competition. It sounds like fun - click on the title above for more details of how a Mix and Match competition works...
St Ives Photographic Club meet at St Ives Free Church at 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
Here's how the St Ives President explained the running of the competition - sounds like fun:
"Essentially, each club starts with an image bank of (say) 30 images. Club A selects and shows an image - for example, a red flower. Club B tries to match it with another flower, or another red object (eg a pillarbox). The judge critiques both images in the usual way, then decides whether they match or not. I'll need to check scoring in FFPX, but it used to be that Club A got a point for showing the first image; Club B got a point if the judge agreed that it was a match; and there was a bonus point for whichever the judge decided would have been the higher-scoring image in a regular competition - except that, if it wasn't a match, the bonus automatically went to Club A. It would then be Club B's turn to put up the first image, and the process is repeated. The first few rounds are usually fairly straightforward. But each image may be used only once: as the evening goes on, and the image bank reduces, it can be more difficult to find a match from what's left - there is scope for trying to justify to the judge why you think it really is a match! The evening ends when each Club has had the same number of turns to go first and all images have been used or - perhaps more likely - it's time to close the meeting."
Comments
Although the evening ended with SCC loosing by 4 points, it was a fun evening for both sides with many comments as to why the image put up second matched. Sometimes the judge beleive the Bovine Excreta and on other occasions he did not.
I looked at the evening as a "dry run" for future competitions and with some refinements and help from Andy, the event should run more smoothly next year at SCC. However, thanks to St Ives for staging the first event.
It was also good to see so many SCC members at the event, which overflowed to the nearny Wetherspoons when the official meeting ended.