This is the night when we unashamedly pat ourselves on the back both individually and collectively! A full report will appear on the results page in the next few days but this year we are pleased to say that we were victorious in all our inter-club battles and had good placings in all the regional competition we entered; […]

At 7.30 we were all assembled in Nantwich CC’s new home and ready to begin. The judge was Gordon Jenkins APAGB so we were assured of a “fair hearing”. The prints were going first. Nantwich’s first print went up – it was a dog portrait by Alma Sankey (“Windblown”) it was beautiful and I thought […]

For full details of the BETA issue see LAURA SHOE for a Video  http://laurashoe.com/lightroom-5-tutorials/ , VICTORIA BAMPTON for a very detailed list of changes http://www.lightroomqueen.com/2013/04/15/whats-new-in-lightroom-5-0-beta . PIET VAN DEN EYNDE is another Lightroom tutor who is certainly worth watching http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/04/lightroom-5-beta-now-available.html, he has some excellent books by CRAFT and VISION.  

Congratulations to Martin McGing for winning the Maurice Ashwin Portrait Competition for prints last night. There was a really good selection of prints and a high standard displayed so a win was something to celebrate. The results are now posted on the 2012-13 CPS Prints section of the Results page. More to follow!

We have a growing band of Monochrome enthusiasts and they had a bit of a treat last night in the way of a talk from someone who is a leading exponent, Dr David Butcher ARPS. David left Ilford nearly 10 years ago to pursue a career as a professional photographer. He has since had 4 books published; […]

Theme for April 2013 The topic for April is “In urban spaces“. For April we’re urban. Latin ‘urbs‘ = city, but I think we can stretch it to towns of any size. So, even though it’s Spring, remember that fields of daffodils are ‘out’ in both senses. As long as you stick to the town […]

30 March 2013: cameras go forward an hour tonight! 😉

You might be interested to know that @Crewephotosoc just posted tweet number 1500 (at 1.00pm Wed 27 March). We have 111 ‘Followers’ (people who’ve signed up to receive our tweets directly to their Twitter accounts). These include several L&CPU clubs and local photographers. You don’t need a Twitter account to read our tweets. You can […]

Tonight we had our penultimate inter-club competition of the season – with Sandbach PS. We managed to have the 19s and 20s in both the prints and the PDIs so Crewe PS won by 351 points to 331. Sandbach had some excellent work which stood up very well indeed and had much classic quality about them; we […]

Entriues for these competitions are now open to members. The L&CPU AIC is for Prints and PDIs – Although 4 can be entered in each of 6 categories please do not think you have to make a full entry. One image can be entered and it could win a Gold Medal! Entries by 18th April […]