The theme for May 2015 chosen at random is INTERIORS 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. We all have access to an interior, but not just buildings, anything with an exterior has an interior. So let your […]
An evening abroad with Dorothy and Tony
Dorothy and Tony Redford are honorary members of North Cheshire PS and Tony has been very involved with the excellent North Cheshire Challenges since their inception. He easily communicates his enthusiasm for photography and this contributed a lot to our enjoyment of the evening. We saw his, and Dorothy’s, shots of Valencia, Paris, Berlin and […]
www.crewephotosoc.com passes the Clinch-Test
The new issue of Black & White Photography magazine arrived this morning and their regular contributor, Tim Clinch, had something to say about camera club websites. It wasn’t complimentary. “Almost without exception”, said Tim “every website (he looked at) had far too much stuff on it. Great clunky wheezing sites, impossible to navigate and infuriating […]
2015 Portrait Competitions – Judged by Adrian Line
Adrian is one of the most successful competitors in club photography and he was able to keep our attention and interest in every one of the 50 or so prints and projections with varied, perceptive and practical comments; a masterclass in club judging. In the end we saw a new photograph by Peter Robinson The […]
Monthly Theme Challenge – April 2015
The theme for April 2015 chosen at random is Warm 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 weather’s getting warmer so it’s easier to get out and interpret this theme as creatively as you like. Look out […]
North Cheshire Challenges 2015
North Cheshire PS always pull out all the stops to keep these competitions one of the premier club events of the region, so we all shared their disappointment when building work at the Civic Centre in Poynton meant interrupted access to the room and no heating. However, we never felt cold (it was positively tropical compared […]
The work of Caroline Small at the Green Man Galler...
We left Buxton Museum to explore a new gallery just next door and it turned out to be quite a cornucopia of local artists work. Three etchings of birch trees caught my eye first and then a photograph, which turned out to be one of a number by Caroline Small. As we wandered round […]
Monthly Theme Challenge – March 2015
Theme for March 2015 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 March is “Vibrant” Lots of ways of being Vibrant in March – all you have to do is find as many as you can! Have fun!
Down memory lane
LAST WEEK’S MEETING – Tony Pioli FRPS FBPE gave us a talk on Thursday which took as throughout the British Isles and into the Alps, Dolomites and many, many other places that he had visited over the years. On the way we had lots of tips on getting good shots in exactly those conditions […]
Monthly Theme Challenge – February 2015
Theme for February 2015 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 February is “Outlines and shapes” Silhouettes, patterns, shadows in the mist, and lots, lots more – plenty of possible subjects for the theme this month. (And […]