The club is very pleased to have received a donation from member Ken Last. Ken has made donations in the past and it is thanks largely to him that we boast such excellent digital projection equipment. The committee will be canvassing members when the new season starts about how the money can best be used […]
Photo News and Approaches to Photography
Issue 10 of Photography News is out and can be viewed here. Editor Will Cheung has always supported club photography and this is the first national magazine which gives a strong club angle. Of course it has the ads, unfortunately a fact of life that you cannot take on an enterprise like this without them (especially since […]
FIAP Nature Definitions
FIAP have adopted a new NATURE definition for photo competitions and one for WILDLIFE too. The PAGB are adopting these definitions immediately for the Club Championships in October and are likely to adopt them permanently after that. In their turn the L&CPU are more or less bound to use them since they need to be […]
2014 PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships
The PAGB Inter-Club Championships for projections, together with its sister event for prints (October), are major indicators of standards and trends in club photography. Taking place at the theatre in the Arts Centre at Warwick University every July it is also a meeting place for the nation’s club photographers, with over 100 clubs represented. Each of the 15 photographic Federations […]
PAGB Inter-Federation Results 2014 – Ian Whiston,
Thanks to Ian Whiston, who has found the PAGB Results we were waiting for on the Midland Federation Website! Please be clear that the selection of entries for this competition is made by the L&CPU from entries to their Individuals’ Competition and, with thousands of entries it is quite something to even have your stuff selected but […]
Getting the Shots
We are just about half-way through our summer break and I begin to wonder what will be in store next season. The ’13-’14 season will be hard to beat, with so many club and personal successes; a number of members gained distinctions and we acquitted ourselves very well in all our regional and national competitions. […]
L&CPU Awards and Exhibition Opening
Today we were at Stockport Memorial and Art Gallery for the presentation of the L&CPU Awards and the opening of the 2014 Exhibition. Our great moment was when Peter Robinson went up to receive his award for winning the MONO PRINT section with Venetian Blizzard. We would have had a second great moment had Ian […]
The PAGB Inter-Federation Results
Every year the 15 Federations send work through to the PAGB for an Inter-Federation competition for both prints and projections. The L&CPU uses work submitted for the Individuals’ Annual – although this year we do not seem to have got to know whose work was chosen! Ian Whiston’s Hyena & Cub certainly was because, as […]
PAGB APMs and the Inter-Club PDI Championships at ...
Rod Wheelans has just sent through two special editions of the PAGB eNews; 117 and 118. PAGB eNews 117 features the Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick University on Saturday July 12th. Each of the 15 Federations can send two clubs and then the top 8 from last year are added too giving a maximum field […]
Facebook, Lightroom
This week we joined the ranks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrewePhotographicSociety check us out! Those starting out in digital photography may feel daunted by the clever things that are being done in Photoshop by some club photographers. Fear not, there is no need now to make a large investment, both in time and money, in attempting to become a Photoshop […]