Here is a report of last season’s portrait competitions. Our annual portrait competition is split into two with a print and a PDI competition. The winner of the print competition will be awarded the Maurice Ashwin Cup and the winner of the PDI competition will win the Howard Edwards Trophy. We had relatively low entry […]
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2025-6 Ron Smith Trophy
Congratulations to Stephen Coyne for winning the Ron Smith Trophy or his creative ‘Dali’s Tree’. Stephen has mastered the skills of manipulating Photoshop to create imaginative images. Members voted Stephen Coyne’s ‘Progression’ second and Peter Robinson’s ‘Spiderman’ third. Stephen is one of our most creative photographers and these images show how he can master Photoshop. […]
2025-6 Print Annual Competition Results
Our annual Print competition is split into Colour general, Monochrome and Nature sections. The images aren’t given a mark, but are awarded 1st,2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended and Commended. At the end of the judging, John will choose an overall ‘Print of the Year’. We were very grateful to judge John Smith who stood in for […]
Crewe Photographic Society Print Exhibition
Our photographic exhibition in the newly-refurbished Platform art gallery in Market Street closed at the end of February. We are delighted to have held an exhibition of our talented members work. We had no less than 42 framed prints with a varied subject matter including landscapes, sport and wildlife in monochrome and full colour. Some of our […]
Stephen Coyne wins the Jim Harrison Trophy in our ...
Once again, we welcomed Jane Lines MPAGB LRPS BPE5 to judge our annual PDI competition where the overall winner is awarded the Jim Harrison Trophy. The competition is split into Colour general, Monochrome and Nature sections. The images aren’t given a mark, but are awarded 1st,2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended and Commended. Jane had an interesting […]
Print 3 Competition Results
Our third and final print league competition of our season once again had a very high standard of prints for us to savour. Experienced Judge Adrian Lines MPAGB FBPE EFIAP ARPS had the difficult task of choosing the winners. There were 40 prints made up of 15 Colour General, 10 mono and 15 nature prints, […]
Stephen Coyne wins PDI3 and the PDI League
Our third and final PDI league competition of our season proved to be one of the best. We had a very high standard of images and an excellent judge in Judge Tillman Kleinhans ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPU who had the difficult task of choosing the winners. He told us he’d viewed the images […]
CPS hold the bragging rights against Alsager
Crewe Photographic Society hold the bragging rights this season having won interclub competitions against our friendly local rivals from Nantwich and Alsager. In our recent competition against Alsager we saw 15 PDIs and 15 prints from each club to compete for the trophy. Judge Nick Berentzen CPAGB, BPE3* arrived without seeing any of the images […]
Print 2 Competition Results
Darrell Oakden DPAGB EFIAP BPE5*, the judge for our second Print Competition started by telling us we should just enjoy our photography and if a judge likes it, it’s just a bonus. He isn’t fussy about titles and thinks judges are blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other! There were 15 […]
Wallace Baxter has a good PDI2 competition
It was good to see Wallace Baxter back to his best with some stunning photographs entered in our PDI2 competition. Judge Martin Pickles is well known for his constructive critique and thoughtful judging style and we certainly set him a challenge. In the Colour General section Wallace took the first and second positions with his […]