The judge; Rob Hockney CPAGB BPE2*, had quite a task dealing with 101 projections in the two hours, but the second half was a swift one(!) and we got through. A few surprises but congratulations to Kath Hill with her atmospheric shot of the Battle of Nantwich – In the thick of it which won the […]

Interest has been shown in publishing elsewhere my comments made here about nature photographs, so I have revised the notes and combined it with the FIAP rules in one document here.

Tonight Garth Tighe and Jon Allanson gave us a wonderful presentation which took us back into the history of photography through the L&CPU Archives. We saw photographs produced by a variety of techniques and Garth also demonstrated something which became the method of picture making for many years; film. Some were moved to tears of […]

Thursday 9 October saw our own first competition. It was for prints and judged by an old friend of the club, Alan Towse. Alan deserves praise for even turning up because he had to risk “leaves on the line” and the “wrong sort of snow” by coming on the train. To be fair everything went […]

At half time 8 of our 10 images had been held back for consideration for top scores, but it wasn’t enough; Holmes Chapel won by 3 marks. Someone remarked that Crewe and Leek appear on the trophy more times than anyone else but it wasn’t to be this year, Leek trailed us by 10 marks. […]

In the 5-Towns Monochrome Print Competition tonight we had not a single print which might raise the question, is this monochrome? In fact they were all good examples of the state of excellence which can now be achieved with the software and printer technology we have available today. We have come a long way from […]

Thanks to our 4 speakers last night; Dolores Williams, Sharon Barton, Ian Whiston, and Paul Hill. It was a great success; getting everyone involved and many contributing. It gave our new members a great opportunity to find out who is who and what expertise they have to help them. We covered the use of ND […]

I don’t buy as many photographic magazines as I used to. A look at the shelves in the newsagents would indicate that I am not alone in this. Worst hit seem to be the “you do it like this” Photoshop magazines. Why? The Photoshop instruction type of magazine must have played out, all they can […]

Issue 10 of Photography News is out and can be viewed here. Editor Will Cheung has always supported club photography and this is the first national magazine which gives a strong club angle. Of course it has the ads, unfortunately a fact of life that you cannot take on an enterprise like this without them (especially since […]

Thanks to Ian Whiston, who has found the PAGB Results we were waiting for on the Midland Federation Website! Please be clear that the selection of entries for this competition is made by the L&CPU from entries to their Individuals’ Competition and, with thousands of entries it is quite something to even have your stuff selected but […]