As usual, we have entered the PAGB Great British Cup. This year the NATURE entries are members choices ONLY – next year we will do the same for the OPEN section. The closing date has been put back to 24th January, but the important dates for us are 8th and 9th February when the judging […]

We are fortunate at Crewe PS to have in our midst one of the most successful and experienced safari photographers in the UK; Ian Whiston DPAGB BPE 3*. This week he gave us a talk that took us through some of the major parks. We are familiar with the names from innumerable wildlife spectaculars on […]

Congratulations to Bob Brown for submitting the winning picture for the November theme “Finding Interest in the ordinary”. Unfortunately Bob couldn’t be with us at the meeting last night due to family commitments but we look forward to presenting the £20 prize at our first 2014 meeting, Thursday January 9th. Dr Brian Law was kind […]

As well as enjoying each others company at Crewe PS we do help where we can outside the club and we have quite a long-standing association with the Crewe & District Local History Society. We are also just picking up links with a local cycling action group whose motto is “Good for you, good for […]

The last meeting of the year, next Thursday, will be a time for some Christmas cheer as we enjoy some food together but it is also a time for looking back. A look back at our achievements over the year but this year we will, of course, also be remembering Mick Roberts and Howard Edwards who we […]

Congratulations to Martin McGing on gaining his CPAGB last weekend. A number of our members have PAGB & RPS awards and also awards gained from getting acceptances in competitions such as the FIAP and BPE distinctions. I don’t think anyone has Photographic Society of America distinctions but those too are awarded for acceptance in competitions. If […]

Experienced international exhibitor, Tremaine Cornish said of our print entries when he judged them on 5th December that many would do well in internationals. Tremaine holds the EPSA from the Photographic Society of America and the EFIAP award from the Federation Internationale d’Arts Photographique, together with 3 crowns from the national circuit – the British […]

This week we enjoyed discussing a selection of prints from the last L&CPU Annual Competition. We also viewed the 2013 RPS Images for Projection International Exhibition and were very impressed by the photographs in the “In Camera” section which was new this year and an attempt to counter the growing number of composite images entered […]

37 clubs took part in the L&CPU Knock-Out this year. The judge was the excellent Richard Speirs, who took a large scythe to the field and knocked out about 2/3 of the field at the first round. It is unusual to lose even 50% normally and it had the effect of making you feel all […]

Last Sunday, to celebrate a granddaughter’s 3rd birthday, we had a family reunion visit to a butterfly farm in St Albans. I took macro shots of the insects with one camera (Canon) and the family portraits with another (Panasonic). They were all raw format shots but thanks to Lightroom I could process them all together […]