Judge John Smith APAGB CPAGB Hon LCPU travelled all the way from Rhyl to judge our interclub competition against Nantwich. He had a difficult task separating the high quality entries. The competition was split into a print and PDI sections with 30 images in each. The Print competition was run first and on completion, it […]
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2025-6 Print 1 Competiton was highly contested
Unfortunately, the judge for our first Print Competition of the season didn’t turn up. However, we are fortunate to have a couple of members who are experienced judges and didn’t enter this competition. So, we were very grateful to member Ian Whiston for stepping in to judge the competition for us. It was the second […]
The Results are in for our PDI 1 Competition
Nick Berentzen CPAGB, BPE3 was the judge for our first PDI Competition of the season, and as usual he gave us a well-balanced and thoughtful critique offering good advice on how to improve our images. In the Colour General section Keith Mulliner’s studio portrait ‘Deep in thought’ took the honours. Nick liked the sympathetic environment […]
The winners of the 2024-25 Portrait Competitions a...
Congratulations to Keith Mulliner who won the Maurice Ashwin Trophy in our print portrait competition. Will Stead EFIAP CPAGB PSA 3 was the entertaining judge with a keen eye. Two of Keith’s professional studio portraits were placed 1st and 2nd. Kieth’s ‘Elle B’ won the trophy and Will like the professional model’s pose with her […]
Wallace Baxter won the Ron Smith Trophy
One of our most coveted trophies is the Ron Smith Trophy. Former member Ron Smith, who passed a way aged 101, was well known for experimenting with photographic techniques. He gave us many fascinating talks on how to create interesting images using various household equipment and improvised lighting. Ron would have loved to dabble with […]
Our Annual Print Competition shows our best prints
Amiable Adrian Lines MPAGB FBPE ARPS EFIAP SPSA was the highly qualified and popular judge for our Annual Print Competition. He gave us many tips on how we could improve our photography and told us what judges look for to separate the prints. He admitted that when it gets to the stage that the prints […]
Paul Hill wins the Jim Harrison Trophy
Congratulations to Paul Hill on being awarded the Jim Harrison Trophy in our Annual PDI Competition. The images in our annual competitions aren’t given a mark, but are awarded 1st,2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended and Commended and Jane seemed to want to hold them all back for a closer look. Judge Jane Lines MPAGB LRPS BPE5*chose […]
2024-5 Print 3 Competiton Results
Our third and final league print competition of the season was judged by sports photographer, Noel Patterson. It was relatively a small entry of 36 prints made up of 12 Colour General, 9 Mono and 15 Nature prints. However, that gave Noel plenty of time to deliver his comments and marks. In the Colour General […]
PDI 3 Results are in…
Our first competition of 2025 was our third PDI league competition and there was a lot to play for. As expected the standard was very high which gave judge Tillman Kleinhans ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPUa difficult task. He took his time to deliver some thoughtful and constructive advise on the 63 images, before […]
CPS is featured in Amateur Photographer magazine
Crewe Photographic Society are proud to have had an article published in the 31st.December edition of Amateur Photographer magazine. It features a Q&A of what we offer photographers in our friendly club. There’s a selction of excellent photos that our members are now producing. We have a wealth of experienced and friendly photographers who are […]