Ron Smith is an honorary member of ours who had a long career in teaching photography in London before moving into our area to retire. He continued to teach an extremely popular U3A class until ill-health forced him to stop but he can claim to have taught photography for over 60 years. In the 1970s he […]
Chairman’s Choice 2016
For over ten years now our chairman has made his “Chairman’s Choice” award during presentation evening. Our awards naturally tend to be for successes in our competitions and just two of them; Chairman’s Choice and the Ron Smith Cup, are in recognition of other qualities. The Ron Smith Cup is awarded for special creativity displayed […]
Final meeting of the 2015-16 season
The Roaches Workshop Recently Paul Hill led a group of members on a visit to the Roaches in Staffordshire for a landscape workshop. This evening we saw a slideshow which Peter Robinson had compiled of some of the photographs taken. It was beautifully done, showing off the variety and quality of the work while illustrating […]
Inter-Club Competition with Nantwich CC – 14 April
We always enjoy inter-club events because it’s interesting to see what our neighbouring clubs are doing. This season one club, Whitchurch CC has backed out of all external competitions and so our tri-battle with them and MCCC earlier in the year will be the last we will see of their work. That is a pity, […]
Portrait Competitions – 7 April 2016
The Maurice Ashwin Trophy for portraits is a print competition which has been with us for many years now but declining entries threatened its continuation a little while back and a PDI (Projected Digital Image) portrait competition was proposed. The projection competition became the Howard Edwards Trophy when Tom and Mary Seaton donated a trophy […]
Members Evening 31 March 2016
If you want to photograph something that has been pictured a million times before, and make it matter, you need to bring all your skills to bear. Peter Robinson has done just that with this shot of the Grand Canal. On the big screen in looked very impressive; it is against the light, but this […]
North Cheshire PS Challenges 2016
The second place we gained this week is our best achievement in these well-supported competitions (we gained a third about 10 years back) but we are often in the top ten. Might we have won with a different judge? Probably not, since Chorley are on a high at present, with an ample number of successful […]
Print Annual 2016 – Robert Millin DPAGB EFIAP/g EP
We were privileged to have Rob Millin with us to judge the annual print competition. Robert has been remarkably successful in national and international competitions as his distinctions attest and he is well used to picking the winners, he also knew that all the work had been judged before and so he made quite quick […]
L&CPU Club Annuals 2016 – 28 Feb 2016
This weekend the L&CPU Club Annuals were held at Lowton School and Crewe PS were one of the 42 clubs to enter the PDI section on Saturday and the 25 Clubs to enter prints on the Sunday. There are nearly 100 clubs in the Union! We acquitted ourselves very well indeed, being in the top […]
Bebington Salon 2015-16 – Bob Dennis APAGB CPAGB A
We are honoured to be one of the clubs where Bob Dennis shows the selected images from the Bebington Salon. Every year we look forward to his presentation as a first hand view into what is being accepted into competitions at a national level, this being one of the 20-or-so BPE competitions. He does a […]