Tonight Garth Tighe and Jon Allanson gave us a wonderful presentation which took us back into the history of photography through the L&CPU Archives. We saw photographs produced by a variety of techniques and Garth also demonstrated something which became the method of picture making for many years; film. Some were moved to tears of […]
First Print Competition 2014-15
Thursday 9 October saw our own first competition. It was for prints and judged by an old friend of the club, Alan Towse. Alan deserves praise for even turning up because he had to risk “leaves on the line” and the “wrong sort of snow” by coming on the train. To be fair everything went […]
What is a Nature Photograph?
This short note is to help you decide. If the primary purpose of the image is to illustrate an organism other than a human, garden plant or domestic animal, use the name of the organism as the title and put it in Nature. It also needs to be a genuine, single shot, “un-retouched” photograph. It […]
2nd in Robertshaw Trophy
At half time 8 of our 10 images had been held back for consideration for top scores, but it wasn’t enough; Holmes Chapel won by 3 marks. Someone remarked that Crewe and Leek appear on the trophy more times than anyone else but it wasn’t to be this year, Leek trailed us by 10 marks. […]
Alsager by a whisker in the “Five Towns”
In the 5-Towns Monochrome Print Competition tonight we had not a single print which might raise the question, is this monochrome? In fact they were all good examples of the state of excellence which can now be achieved with the software and printer technology we have available today. We have come a long way from […]
Open Evening Success – 18 September 2014
Thanks to our 4 speakers last night; Dolores Williams, Sharon Barton, Ian Whiston, and Paul Hill. It was a great success; getting everyone involved and many contributing. It gave our new members a great opportunity to find out who is who and what expertise they have to help them. We covered the use of ND […]
L&CPU Folios and things…
This week we had one of the L&CPU Folios to view. These are made up from some of the best work submitted to the main L&CPU competition of the year. This takes place in May and attracts thousands of entries from perhaps 60 of the 96 member clubs. We were fortunate this year in having […]
Season Off On A Flying Start
We started the 2014-15 season last night with a talk by a good friend of the society, Ian Stewart ARPS DPAGB. Ian has judged for us many times but last night he entertained us with his talk on wedding photography. As I said in my introduction you did not have to be contemplating “doing” a […]
Recruitment
CPS members will be in the Market Arcade in Crewe on Friday and Saturday 29 & 30 August. If you are interested in finding out more about us there is lots of information here on the website but, you can’t beat talking to a real person can you? So please call by and have a word. […]
Magazines
I don’t buy as many photographic magazines as I used to. A look at the shelves in the newsagents would indicate that I am not alone in this. Worst hit seem to be the “you do it like this” Photoshop magazines. Why? The Photoshop instruction type of magazine must have played out, all they can […]