Our pitch at the Artsfest was looking pretty good; plenty of excellent work on display, including a montage of work from everyone who entered competitions in 2017. John and Meg are seen discussing the much admired “Preacher” by our secretary Peter Robinson. All the prints drew compliments from visitors. Martin helped us out on Friday […]
Robertshaw 49 – 12 October 2017
To make a special occasion of something is always fun and it was exciting to be staging this event at the Crewe Vagrants rather than our Lifestyle Centre home. The entries were really superbly presented and almost all very strong, competitive images – a pleasure to view. In the end Macclesfield CC took the Trophy […]
PDI Competition (PDI 1 2018) – Judged by Bill Pres
Here are the winners of our three sections in our first PDI competition of the season, held on Thursday 28 September. They are (top, left) John Royle’s Tomb (hope that isn’t prescient) , mono winner, then (right) Ian Whiston’s Cheetah Siblings then Martin McGing’s Team Breeze. We had a splendid set of images, getting us […]
Meeting 21 September 2017
Tonight we had Ray Thorley, a local photographer, to speak to us. Technical difficulties prevented Ray from giving his intended talk about landscape photography and instead Ray spoke very enthusiastically about his degree course in photography – which he embarked on after retirement! He clearly enjoyed it immensely – but I sensed a love of people […]
Meeting 14 September 2017
Crewe PS, together with nearly 100 other clubs in the North West, is a member of the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union. They support their clubs in numerous ways, one of which is to organise 4 major competitions each year. A selection of the most successful and representative work is circulated to member clubs each year. […]
First Meeting of the 2017-18 Season
Our fist evening of the new season was a great success with a very high attendance and some new faces too! They heard two talks by members. Paul Hill gave his long-awaited presentation on macro photography, eagerly anticipated because we all know the high the quality of his work. He included a discussion of the image above, […]
Chalk It Up! A Success for Crewe
Chalk It Up! in Crewe last weekend (26/27 August 2017) provided plenty of photo opportunities and members of Crewe PS were there to get the shots. This spectacular creation by the Mexican artist Adry Del Rocio (I guess a self portrait) took first prize as far as the public vote was concerned. There is […]
Chalk It Up!
Crewe Ps members are helping Cheshire East and Crewe Town Council document some of the events which they have helped to stage in Crewe in recent times and on Saturday 26 August the two-day event Chalk It Up started with the artists getting to work on their creations. Thankfully a warm, dry day was promised […]
Gold Medal at the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championship...
Ian Whiston’s Cheetah with family was the Gold Medal winner in the PDI Nature section of the 2017 Inter-Federation Competition and his award was presented at the PAGB event yesterday. In the picture he is photographed by Terry Donnelly (himself an award winner (in fact THE award winner with “best in Show”) while PAGB President, […]
L&CPU Exhibition 2017
July 8 2017 brought the opening of the 2017 L&CPU Exhibition and the presentation of awards for successes in the Club Annuals in March and the more recent Annual Individuals’ Competition. The exhibition includes prints by Wallace Baxter and Kath Hill. My “Connoisseur” is also there, having been used in the 2016 PAGB competition. […]