Crewe member Ian Whiston has won the PDI Nature section in the L&CPU Annual Competitions which took place last weekend. He has achieved this three times in the last 5 years, tying for first on another occasion. The image of Ian’s seen above gained a silver medal too.He was not our only success in this […]

The thoughtful still life by Sandbach member Stephen Cooke which won the prints section of the competition. It is just coincidence that our last two judges have been highly successful SPORTS photographers. It is with some trepidation that we submitted our sports work to the expert gaze but, it fared quite well. It is the […]

The L&CPU Club Annuals took place at Lowton School this year, over the weekend of the 4/5th March. The Judges were the Lindseys (Barbie and Russell) and Bill Hall. The whole event was very well organised, particularly thanks to Adrian Lines’s computer software (which even reads out the titles) but largely because of the hard […]

Crewe PS has been one of the venues for the showing of this national exhibition for almost all of its 15 year history. Bob Dennis APAGB CPAGB AFIAP BPE4 organises the exhibition and takes the show on the road. This year he has set himself an even more punishing list of showings but his enthusiasm and […]

A safe pair of hands is a cricketing term used to describe a reliable and talented fielder and it came to mind when I  was thinking of a way of introducing Darrell Oakden, our judge for this competition. Darrell has had a lot of success with his own work in nationals and internationals and has […]

Alsager CC have their venue at a Golf Clubhouse which has no course. Whether this means it is a permanent  19th hole we didn’t stop to ask as we piled into the end room to start proceedings. Alsager now sport a beautiful new print stand and (causing even more envy) a new full HD plus […]

Sharon and Dave kept us well entertained with a light-hearted review of a club trip to Oxford followed by some tutorials on studio lighting by Mark Cleghorn. Mark runs the professional training school which Sharon and Dave recommend to us. As a member you have access to a massive catalog of training videos on a wide […]

Stephen and Judith gave us a multi sensory presentation of their Indian/Nepalese journey. Their words, pictures and music gave us a wonderful feel for the life, society, colour and religious devotion they experienced, and they dressed for the occasion too; Judith becoming an Indian lady and Stephen a Nepalese. Probably least expected was that it was […]

Happy New Year everyone and best wishes for the New Year. Unfortunately, I have to start with some sad news. Mary has been in touch with Margaret Smith, wife of our treasured long term member, Ron Smith. Mary sent me the following message. ‘I have spoken to Margaret this afternoon. She is very frail and […]