Martin gave us a light-hearted presentation made all the more engaging by his genuine enthusiasm for preserving and enhancing this valuable collection, dating back to 1886. It was interesting to see how subjects for club photography had not changed a lot given the restrictions of the old technology, though the sheer quality of these large […]
Member Focus : Ken Last
Ken Last can be relied on the get the shots of local events, and our event of last week was surely the Tour of Britain Stage 3 which came through Crewe on Tuesday 6 September. Ken managed to capture one of the stars, Sir Bradley Wiggins and got the shot into the local papers like a […]
Member Focus – Tom Seaton
We always eagerly anticipate Tom Seaton’s entries into our competitions, his work is always among the most memorable of the year. He is able to make those resonant images from the most unpromising subjects; a few people on a beach, a disused lido, a window, a door, even a chink of light though a gap […]
British Portraits by Niall McDiarmid at Oriel Colw...
Niall has a growing reputation now and it is in no small part due to this project which started as little more than an afternoon’s entertainment and has now gained international recognition. He simply went out with a vague idea of taking portraits of people he met on his walk one Sunday afternoon. Quite quickly it developed […]
Inside The Outside
Inside the Outside is a new collective formed by four photographer/artists whose work reflects their view that being in the landscape (and representing it) is to simultaneously inhabit two worlds; the one before them and the one inside them. The four have already produced a lot of deeply interesting work and working as a collective […]
Sunflower
Last weeks picture of the week was Ralph Browes’s Dolomitian Sunflower, which was submitted last year as a print. Ralph is a keen walker and took this shot on one of his expeditions. The alpine location is clear from the background but sunflowers cannot fail to be anything but bold and brassy and it thrusts […]
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, […]
Paul Hill – L&CPU Prints 2016
Just Chilling is a photograph entered as a print in our 2015-16 season’s competition by Paul Hill. Paul also entered it into the L&CPU Annual at the end of the season and it has been selected to be hung in their exhibition and tour the clubs next year in the folios of the best work […]
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 Connoisseur
At the end of the season our federation runs a competition open to all members of its 100 or so clubs. This year one of our successful prints was Connoisseur by John Royle which gained a third place in the monochrome section. It was taken in the Murano glass museum and processed to make the […]