We are entering a very busy period of the season. During the next few weeks we have the North Chesire Challenges, where we have a full entry. We have our last Print League Competition too but what is concerning us is how to fit in an entry into the new L&CPU Club Competitions where entries […]

Our entry for the Print Competition on  13th February and the PDI KO on 14th February are now safely with NCPS. They have a special website for the Challenges, which used to be called the Inter-Club Competitions. The address is   http://www.northcheshirechallenges.info/. Our entry is [wpfilebase tag=fileurl id=102 linktext=’NCPS Challenges Entry 2013′ /]. There is no meeting at Crewe on 14th […]

Last night’s competition was the final PDI League of the season so I have now drawn up the League Table. General, Special Topic and Nature are all considered as one and the top 5 scores from each member make the league total. Ken Dickenson leads the field with 97, then Bob Brown and myself second, […]

We viewed the Monochrome Folio Q 2012 tonight and simultaneously viewed the projected digital images supplied. It offered a lot to comment about. We were impressed that one of the few images to which very few manipulations had been applied had been awarded 15 – full marks – and a beautiful image it was too. […]

Tonight at Whitchurch the marking was very close 16-19 in the prints and 17-20 in the PDIs. The final scores were, of course, close too with only 11 marks separating first from last. The quality of the work was excellent and it was good to visit our friends from “over the border” and see what […]

Margaret & John Sixsmith gave us a great presentation last night. I do urge the younger members especially to go for the distinctions they were talking about (FIAP, PSA and BPE) if you are interested in competitions. In any event the Sixsmith’s pictures were great and the background stories of how each one had been […]

The images are now assembled for the Great British Cup Entry – just some final checks on colour space etc and they can be in the post on Monday. I will then post a complete list of the images here. All the Natural History “regulars” who have entered things this season have the full entry […]

The first few weeks of the new year will be a busy time on the external competitions front. We have the following events during January and February: 1. The Great British Cup, with entries for OPEN and NATURAL HISTORY – PDIs. We can enter 15 images in the Open section, there must be at least […]

James is a member of Macclesfield CC and a few years ago he turned his pastime club photography into something really serious by becoming professional. It was very interesting to see his commercial work, but he started by taliking about the way that we can all use flash – to balance up the lighting in […]