Our portrait evening, 3rd April 2014 was an enjoyable event but overshadowed by the sad news that our President and longest standing member Alan Goodin had died. Alan was a true gentleman. He was a popular and highly respected member who served on our committee for many years and his experience and wisdom contributed enormously […]

Portraits and Natural History are the two favourite genres at the moment and so it is no surprise that our two portrait competitions this year were well supported, and lots of new work too! Judge Diane Seddon LRPS did a great job for us and made it a very entertaining evening. Dolores Williams made the […]

The talk by Alex Hyde at Nantwich CC last night (1 Apr) was very well attended. I spoke to members from Holmes Chapel, Alsager, Mid-Cheshire, Northwich as well as Crewe and, of course, Nantwich. I hope Nantwich felt very encouraged by the great response and will put on another such event. Alex’s talk was very […]

Christine has achieved a great deal of success in club photography in the last few years but, moreover, she has given back so much too. She was a successful President of the L&CPU for two years, initiating their APM Mentoring scheme as well as conducting a major survey of the Federation’s 97 clubs to enable future planning. She […]

Our annual Knock-Out for projected images is just for fun; members see the photographs projected in pairs and vote for their preference. The flaw is, of course, that two excellent pieces of work might be paired together and so a good picture is lost to the competition. That’s why we say it is just for […]

It was good to re-new acquaintances with Sandbach members last night and we thank them for their hospitality and running the event so well; it made a very enjoyable evening. The judge was Tony Pioli who is as well known to them as he is to us. Sandbach have some excellent workers and I knew […]

“Is there anyone here who isn’t from Crewe?” quipped Kathryn Scorah on meeting yet another of our members on Sunday. We did have a good number there because it is an opportunity to direct the re-enactors if you wish, which is harder to do at a full public event such as the Crich 40’s Days; […]

This week Ian Stewart APAGB DPAGB took us through some of his prints, many of them made in the days of film. There is much to learn from the style of shooting with film – you had to get it right. Now there is a danger of a casual approach to photography; “shoot plenty, you can […]

We have three print League Competitions each season. Members can enter up to 3 Colour and 3 Mono prints into each. Colour is either Nature or General. Towards the end of the season we hold the Print Annual. Members can only enter prints already used in the season’s leagues but can re-work them if they […]

Tonight we had the annual visit by Bob Dennis APAGB CPAGB AFIAP BPE3* to present the Bebington Salon of Photography. The Salon is one of about 20 BPE Exhibitions which are nationals whose awards count towards the British Photographic Exhibitors Awards – that’s what the BPEs used after club photographers names mean. Bob is amazing. […]