In the spring 2012 edition of Northern Focus, the online magazine of the NCPF, there is a fascinating Personal Profile of our old friend from Hartlepool Photo & Digital Group, Dave Phillips who has done a great job for us as a competition Judge and lecturer many times. Dave relates how he went on a Judging course with the NCPF in Tynemouth:
“Just before I got my opportunity to comment on the images, a young gent took the stage hoping to impress, and impress he did. He addressed the audience in such an eloquent,
knowledgeable and almost poetic manner. He read each photograph beautifully. How could he extract that much information from each image? More importantly, how could I compete with that? Quite simply, I couldn’t ... and the name of the young man who made such an impression? Paul Ritchie of Durham P.S. Needless to say, he sailed through.”
Of course the young Dave Phillips was also invited on to the Judging Panel and has been one of the post popular and effective ever since. Meantime Paul, still on the NCPF judging and lecturer panels, went on to be President of Durham PS and is today one of the most highly regarded Programme Secretaries in the photography club world.
In the same issue of Northern Focus, NCPF President Richard Spiers announced there will be a seminar for prospective judges in the Autumn of 2012.
The full article by Dave Phillips can be found here: http://www.ncpf.org.uk/data/uploads/northern-focus-2012-spring2.pdf
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