FIAP have adopted a new NATURE definition for photo competitions and one for WILDLIFE too. The PAGB are adopting these definitions immediately for the Club Championships in October and are likely to adopt them permanently after that. In their turn the L&CPU are more or less bound to use them since they need to be […]
Getting the Shots
We are just about half-way through our summer break and I begin to wonder what will be in store next season. The ’13-’14 season will be hard to beat, with so many club and personal successes; a number of members gained distinctions and we acquitted ourselves very well in all our regional and national competitions. […]
Monthly Theme Challenge – July 2014
Theme for July 2014 If you like a challenge, and enjoy honing your skills, join in our members’ Monthly Theme activity. You’ll find guidelines to get started here. The topic for July is “People” This month’s theme is about one of our greatest and most enduring fascinations: us! People have been one of photography’s main […]
PAGB APMs and the Inter-Club PDI Championships at ...
Rod Wheelans has just sent through two special editions of the PAGB eNews; 117 and 118. PAGB eNews 117 features the Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick University on Saturday July 12th. Each of the 15 Federations can send two clubs and then the top 8 from last year are added too giving a maximum field […]
Sale at SERIF software – be quick
Serif have discounts on their software from today (Sunday) for the next five days. (The amount of discount is 50% on Sunday, and gets less by 10% each subsequent day.) Just enter the discount code for the relevant day, as shown on the football shirts at the top of the front page, here.
Facebook, Lightroom
This week we joined the ranks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrewePhotographicSociety check us out! Those starting out in digital photography may feel daunted by the clever things that are being done in Photoshop by some club photographers. Fear not, there is no need now to make a large investment, both in time and money, in attempting to become a Photoshop […]
Monthly Theme Challenge – June 2014
Theme for June 2014 If you like a challenge, and enjoy honing your skills, join in our members’ Monthly Theme activity. You’ll find guidelines to get started here. The topic for June is “Weather” The weather can itself be the subject of evocative or dramatic photographs; but it also changes, affects and influences the appearance and feeling of […]
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Photography News Issue 8 (20 May – 16 June 2014)
The latest issue of Photography News has just been published. It contains an article by our own Webmaster, Ian McNab (see page 16). If you can’t get hold of a paper copy, you can read it online at http://issuu.com/brightpublishing/docs/pn08
Monthly Theme Challenge – May 2014
Theme for May 2014 If you like a challenge, and enjoy honing your skills, join in our members’ Monthly Theme activity. You’ll find guidelines to get started here. The topic for May is “A sense of place” The theme for this month is to do with imaginative, creative interpretation to evoke ‘a sense of place’. Poetry, please! Enjoy!