The theme for December 2015 is ‘Christmas’. Firstly, let me apologise for kicking off this months’ theme a few days late, but it’s been worth the wait. I’ve chosen the seasonal theme of Christmas to get everyone in the festive mood. It’s a simple enough theme that everyone can find all around them so it […]
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Crewe PS: 21 November 2015 – A tie for first plac
At the L&CPU event on Saturday 21 November Crewe PS tied for first place with Southport PS but then lost to them in a tie-break. However, Ian Whiston’s Cheetahs Looking For Prey (seen above) took the award for best image of the competition.
3rd December 2015 Meeting – Our second print compe
Before the meeting I complimented our secretary, Tom Seaton, on two of his entries and I was delighted that judge Bob Dennis agreed and gave one, “The Swimming Pool is Closed” first place in the Genera Colour section. Although two of our regular entrants were not able to compete this time we still had a […]
Alsager CC v Crewe PS 26 November 2015
Alsager fielded some excellent images, as indeed did we; and it was always likely to be a close thing. In the end Alsager took the charming trophy (a golden SLR) by just three marks. RESULTS. It was a very entertaining evening presided over the affable Daryl Giles CPAGB whose judging was light-hearted, well- balanced and well timed. The […]
19 November 2015 Talk by Paul Hill BPE
At this week’s meeting we viewed all the prints in the latest L&CPU Folio. Since PDIs of the prints had been asked for the presentation of the accompanying AV was very good and improved our enjoyment of the prints. After the break we had member Paul Hill talk to us. He had not publicised what […]
What makes a good monochrome print?
This is Peter Hrebien’s photograph of Martin Simpson. It shone out in our last competition for sheer print quality. What constitutes a fine monochrome print is something which all the old hands profess to know but nobody quite likes to commit themselves to define. You won’t quite see it here because this is small digital […]
Mike Sharples ARPS MPAGB EFIAP BPE4* – 12 November
Mike showed us his successful competition pictures which featured people in costume at Blists’ Hill, the Black Country Museum, Whitby and various other sites together with landscapes from the Hebrides, the Dingle peninsular and Anglesey. There were shots of intriguing decrepitude too, a derelict cottage that Mike and his colleagues from Smethwick came across. Mike […]
Print 1 2016 – (Front Page 2/11/15)
When we hold a competition the pictures are judged by someone from outside the club, who is, of course, unaware of who has taken them, consequently progress by members in the quality and nature of their work goes unremarked. This week, however, we will be putting that to rights by taking a second look at […]
Meeting 5 November 2015 – A look at our work and t
This week we spent some time looking more closely at the work submitted for the last print competition. Members valued being able to examine the work closely and some very thoughtful comments could be heard around the room. We then moved on with Ian McNab to look at visual design and the work of some […]
Front Page: 26 October 2015
There are few photographers of the stature of Salgado and his Genesis exhibition has been touring the World recently. This time he concentrates on Nature rather than people (as he did on “Workers” and “Migrations”). All his photographs are black and white, not the default, the obvious, colour. Salgado certainly made me think again about using […]