What a great evening! We had three excellent contributions, the first explains the rather weird looking picture above. It is an anaglyphic 3D image which you view with glasses which have a red filter as the left lens and a cyan filter as the right. I am sure most readers will be familiar with the […]
Kath Hill
What happens when you wear too many hats? Looks like the guy in Kath Hill’s neat street shot will soon be finding out. The selfie stick and hand gesture fit together and keep attention in on that slightly worried face, and although we get the main message straight away there is still detail there to […]
PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships
Some of us are off to Warwick on Saturday to see this popular PAGB Inter-Club competition. One added item of interest this year is that Alsager CC are taking part. We wish them all the best, it is a challenging event, with many tactical decisions to make during the day as well as, of course, […]
Ian Whiston EFIAP
We all know that in our midst we have an extremely successful club photographer; Ian Whiston. He has now gained his EFIAP, which needs 250 acceptances in competitions in 20 different countries and 30 salons using 50 different images. This is a career-long achievement for many but Ian has achieved it in just a few […]
The Viking Roars, Again!
The Viking Roars Again! When member Robert Brown entered a portrait of one of his son’s team mates in the Tough Mudder event last year we were impressed both by the photography and the subject. Lasse, the “Roaring Viking” has now become a bit of an internet rage, and such is the fervour that […]
The Ron Smith Cup 2016
Ron Smith is an honorary member of ours who had a long career in teaching photography in London before moving into our area to retire. He continued to teach an extremely popular U3A class until ill-health forced him to stop but he can claim to have taught photography for over 60 years. In the 1970s he […]
Chairman’s Choice 2016
For over ten years now our chairman has made his “Chairman’s Choice” award during presentation evening. Our awards naturally tend to be for successes in our competitions and just two of them; Chairman’s Choice and the Ron Smith Cup, are in recognition of other qualities. The Ron Smith Cup is awarded for special creativity displayed […]
Final meeting of the 2015-16 season
The Roaches Workshop Recently Paul Hill led a group of members on a visit to the Roaches in Staffordshire for a landscape workshop. This evening we saw a slideshow which Peter Robinson had compiled of some of the photographs taken. It was beautifully done, showing off the variety and quality of the work while illustrating […]
Inter-Club Competition with Nantwich CC – 14 April
We always enjoy inter-club events because it’s interesting to see what our neighbouring clubs are doing. This season one club, Whitchurch CC has backed out of all external competitions and so our tri-battle with them and MCCC earlier in the year will be the last we will see of their work. That is a pity, […]
Portrait Competitions – 7 April 2016
The Maurice Ashwin Trophy for portraits is a print competition which has been with us for many years now but declining entries threatened its continuation a little while back and a PDI (Projected Digital Image) portrait competition was proposed. The projection competition became the Howard Edwards Trophy when Tom and Mary Seaton donated a trophy […]