John Royle has been an enthusiastic and active Crewe Photographic Society member for over 18 years. He had a 6 year spell as our Programme Secretary, a 6 year spell as our diligent Competition Secretary and over 15 years as our Chairman. John was also a respected L&CPU judge for many years. He has given […]
Ian Whiston L&CPU Annual Individual Nature POTY
Congratulations to Ian Whiston once again who was awarded their Nature Photographer of the Year. Ian’s ‘Lion Cub Pursuing Tommie Lamb’ and ‘Parent Hyena Rebuking Cub’ scored a maximum score of 15 and two others scored 14. He won the Nature section and had 3 Commended. Wow! That’s quite amazing. Images to follow.
Stephen Coyne – ‘Photographer of the Year’ 2020-21
Congratulations to Stephen Coyne on winning our coveted Photographer of the Year award with a staggering 321 points. Stephen certainly mopped up this season by winning both the PDI League Competition with 133 points and the new Lockdown League with 132 points. The above slideshow shows 11 of his creative images that scored 19 or […]
Our Howard Edwards Trophy & Twilight Competitions
Judge Darrell Oakden DPAGB EFIAP BPE4, from Alsager, was a busy man when he joined us, as he had to judge 2 competitions. The first one was our prestigious portrait competition, The Howard Edwards Trophy which was purely in PDI format this season due to COVID restrictions. Darrell found it difficult to separate the 31 […]
Crewe beat Nantwich in our annual competition.
This year’s keenly fought interclub competition against our good friends at Nantwich Camera Club was purely a PDI one due to COVID making it a Zoom presentation. It’s always good to see what other clubs are producing. The judge with the difficult task of separating so many excellent images was Nick HiltonDAPGB BPE5*. He was […]
CPS come 11th. overall in the L&CPU Club Annual PD
The PDI section of the L&CPU’s Annual Club Competition was held on Saturday 20 March via a Zoom meeting. It was hosted by their Honorary Secretary Adrian Lines MPAGB FBPE ARPS EFIAP and judged by the experienced Gwen and Phil Charnock. 40 clubs entered up to 16 ‘Open Digital’ and 8 ‘Nature’ images. We were […]
John Royle is bestowed as a L&CPU Honourary Member
During the L&CPU’s AGM on 28th.March, our devoted Competition Secretary, John Royle was awarded the L&CPU’s Roll of Honour Life Membership for his services to the L&CPU and club photography. In his tribute to John, L&CPU President, James Hardy CPAGB LRPS told the 76 attendees: “The Roll of Honour Life Membership of the L&CPU is […]
CPS Press Release
Crewe Photographic Society have had the following Press release published on at least three local news websites. It was accompanied by the winning photos from our first Lockdown League Competition. NEWS RELEASE: Crewe Photographic Society launch Lockdown League Crewe Photographic Society has launched a ‘Lockdown League’ as part of a new series of meetings taking […]
Crewe PS win their Competition against Alsager
Alsager recently hosted our annual competition with them via a Zoom meeting It was a highly entertaining, well attended meeting judged by the talented Cherry Larcombe EFIAP ARPS DPAGB BPE*4 who’s a member of Eastbourne PS. Cherry told us the standard of photography was very high and her marks would reflect that. 48 images were […]
It’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd for Ian Whiston in Nature
Congratulations to Ian Whiston EFIAP/s DPAGB ABPE on taking the first three places in the nature section of our second PDI competition. Ian specialises in nature photography and has accumulated a large collection of gold medals to prove it. Any of Ian’s three entries could have won, but my personal favourite was ‘Cheetah mum spotting […]