15 December was our last 2016 Meeting and we had presentations from Meg and Peter Robinson to enjoy before our usual “Office Party”. Peter had two AVs to show us – one about Blist’s Hill Victorian Village and one of a journey along the famous Route 66. The former especially was really excellent; really well […]
Members Evening 24 November 2017
Martin’s presentation, about how Photoshop Elements can be used effectively in manipulating your shoots was a delight. His enthusiasm for changing the content of his pictures knew no bounds, but he kept a realistic feel (no unicorns ascending rainbows, though we did have an OTT rainbow which was not serious). Martin made it all such […]
L&CPU PDI Knock-Out
That heading needs some explanation. The L&CPU is our Federation of photo clubs and societies, about one hundred in all. They help us with insurance and many organisational matters, keep a register of judges and lecturers who will visit clubs at special rates, and organise 4 big competitions each year. This is one such competition. […]
PDI 2 2017 – Judged by Brian Dunseath ARPS
Brian was back for the second time. He impressed us last year with his confident reading of our pictures and good technical criticism centred round guiding the viewers perception of the image. The winners were a sure-fire set having in common something to communicate and excellent taking and processing skills to bring that out. I felt […]
An aura of quietude
Tom Seaton’s winning mono print in our first print competition shows how photography can make the best of the world – pointing the other way the scene would have been full of people! Anyway, as John Berger said in an interview yesterday, that is something to think about for a long time, no more from […]
Hoylake International with Brian & Diana Magor
Brian and Diana have made a great success of their venture into Photographic Society of America (PSA) competitions. They started almost by accident in realising that their FIAP competition entries were quietly gaining PSA points too. Investigation proved that even well known and respected competitions were being run on a shoe string and were easier […]
Roger Evans FBPE EFIAP DPAGB – Talk Sport – 13 Sep
Roger Evans FBPE EFIAP DPAGB is a very determined man. It shows in the variety of sports he has photographed (everything from synchronised swimming to weight-lifting), the number of events he covers (about one each week) and the way he overcomes any difficulty. Roger’s talk conveyed that determination very clearly as he took us through […]
PDI 1 2017 – 29 September 2016 – The Winners
Sports photography is all about depicting action and we certainly got it with two of the class winners in our first competition of the 2016-17 season. Kath Hill’s Making a Splash, certainly does just that in more ways than one and Martin McGing’s Grass Track Racers also has things flying, in this case the vegetation […]
Members Evening 9 Oct 2016
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 […]
The “Five Towns” Monochrome Print Competition 2016
Congratulations to Mid-Cheshire in winning the Five Towns this year, their first entry too! We see plenty of good mono work from the two members of CPS who are also members of MCCC but I know from judging at MCCC that they have quite a few more workers producing interesting and finely crafted mono work too, so MCCC […]