It is always good to see the best work of the year assembled in the Annual. We had as our judge Christine Widdall MPAGB EFIAP BPE 5* who is a PAGB accredited judge and she gave us a first-rate commentary on each print recognising the strengths of the image and suggesting in some cases how it might be improved. We […]

We had a great day at Edge Hill watching the Club PDI Annuals being judged. There were some wonderful moments for us. Darren’s Minimal Defence scored a FIFTEEN! (That is absolutely 100% FULL MARKS- all three judges thought it top class) Ian’s Bee-Eaters got a 14! So did Paul Hills Skipper on Cocksfoot. Full Results can […]

We have fond memories of Jim Harrison who celebrated his 100th birthday whilst a member with us. He showed a lot of our members the way when he was one of the first to buy a digital camera at age 98! Sadly he died not long after his 100th birthday but not before sponsoring the […]

The Club Print Annual took place on Sunday 3rd and many of you will already have seen the overal club scores on the L&CPU Website www.lcpu.org.uk I have just posted the individual marks for our club on the RESULTS  page. We did well, especially in NATURE and Kath Hill will be delighted with the 14 earned […]

Some excellent work in tonight’s competition and plenty of good advice from our judge Gordon Jenkins APAGB. It wasn’t just the quality though, some of the prints may have lacked quality a bit but they were often very good ideas – and that is the difficult bit. Techniques can be learned but ideas and inspiration […]

We have completed the entry for the L&CPU Club Annual, the list is onthe RESULTS  page. The prints will be delivered on Saturday at the L&CPU Annual General Meeting and the Print Competition takes place on 3rd March, PDI on the 10th March. You can go and watch either or both, tickets are free and […]

At the Print Competition tonight Wigan 10 took fist place with 95 points. Chorley were a good second with 92, then Leek, NCPS, Chapel and Keswick came next, then CREWE and South Manchester. None of our prints let us down though we didn’t have that “special one” which would have put us third – but […]

Hats off to PAGB Great British Cup Nature Photographer of the Year, Ian Whiston! We knew Ian’s 15, 13, 13 score in the Nature section of the Great British Cup would give him a good chance of the top award but we had to wait until this morning to be told that it was his. Congratulations […]

Thanks to Ian, Sharon and Dave plus our lovely model Danielle everyone had a chance to plug in and shoot with studio flash tonight. Before we started Marc Byram was on hand to tell us about a short course he is running in April which covers the whole gamut from basic shooting to publication. He […]

We are entering a very busy period of the season. During the next few weeks we have the North Chesire Challenges, where we have a full entry. We have our last Print League Competition too but what is concerning us is how to fit in an entry into the new L&CPU Club Competitions where entries […]