Winner John Newell presented with his trophy by CPS Chairman John Royle Second placed Matthew Lee receives his trophy and certificate from John looked on by the Mayor Brian Roberts Crewe Town Council kindly secured the Mayor’s Parlour in the Municipal Building as the venue for the prize giving presentations of our 2018 Steampunk Photographic […]
June’s Monthly Theme is Intentional Camera Movemen
This month’s theme of Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) gives you the opportunity to experiment and get creative. The results of moving the camera during the exposure can be unpredictable, but with experimentation you can develop your very own technique to produce some eye catching photographs. Some members have bravely entered ICM photographs for our monthly […]
Crewe Steampunk Weekend
Crewe’s Steampunk Convivial and food festival took place this bank holiday weekend and as you may recall from my previous emails our members were invited to enjoy photographing the event and pass their photographs to the town council. In return the council have given us credit and publicity for the photographs with links to our […]
CPS results in the L&CPU Individual Competition
The results for the weekends’ L&CPU Individual Competition has just been published and some of our members have done particularly well. In the ‘Colour Print’ section, Wallace Baxter scored 12 for ‘Precision On The Beam’ and 13 for ‘Mounting The Beam’ both have been retained for their Folio. Peter Robinson scored 14 for his ‘Posh […]
May’s Monthly Theme is Photo Captions
Something a bit different for merry May. Choose a caption for your or other members photos!
April’s Monthly Theme is ‘Dirty Framing’
No it’s not an April fool joke. I want you to show us your dirty framed photos. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about have a look at Ian McNabs post entitled ‘Manet and Street Photography’ under the ‘All About Photography’ section of the Forum. It’s a bit more challenging than the previous themes […]
Clubbercise Challenge
My niece is running the London Marathon in aid of the Shine Bright Charity which was formed in memory of her sister who sadly died at the age of 32 from breast cancer. To raise funds to run the marathon she’s organised a few events. One of these is a Clubbercise event which she asked […]
March’s Monthly Theme is Architecture
Hello CPS Members, I’ve chosen Architecture as the Monthly Theme for March with the redevelopment of Crewe town centre in mind. As it’s due to be demolished later in the year now is a good time to record a valuable part of Crewe’s history. The challenge is not to just take a record of the […]
February’s Monthly Theme is Still Life
Inspired by this George Franks’ talk a few weeks ago on Still Life photography I’ve decided to give you the chance to show what you can do. George showed us how to cheaply build up a set using simple lighting and home made accessories. You don’t have to spend a lot of money and have […]
The ‘Battle of Nantwich’ 27th. January
On Saturday 27th.January, Nantwich will commemorate the English Civil War battle of Nantwich which took place in 1644. Nantwich was a Parliamentarian strong hold in Cheshire and was besieged by Lord Byron’s Royalist forces. Every yearhundreds of the Sealed Knot re-enactors from all over the country invade Nantwich in their civil war uniforms and arsenal. […]