We got off to a flying start with our competitions with 89 super images to look at with our state-of-the-art projector. Wonderful variety as usual from our members and a great contribution from new members Vicky and Peter, who managed to walk off with 2 of the 3 section wins! Steve Carr presided and […]
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Crewe PS on Radio Stoke
This week (September 14 – 18, 2015) Radio Stoke (94.6 FM, 104.1 FM, Digital and Online) are out and about in Crewe during their James Watt programme each afternoon. Crewe PS were featured on Monday 14 September Maxine talked to our Chairman about how to photograph autumn colours. The great thing about radio is that you can […]
Great British Trophy – for PRINTS
The PAGB have just sent through this advertisement for the new small prints trophy. I’ve added a note about the entry date we require. It will need a different label set to the ones we normally use and also the prints need delivering and so we are asking £1 towards the cost of this from […]
Club Meeting 10 September 2015
Meeting 10 September – L&CPU Folio (South B) and Open Evening This week the first L&CPU Folio of the year was ours to view. Since there was no exhibition this year the folios are the only opportunity of getting a close view of the regions best prints. The selection had to be made from the […]
Tough Mudder Event
Here is a shot of our club members after a meeting! Well, OK, maybe not. Member Bob Brown last year presented us with a real winner entitled “Official Photographer” taken at the Tough Mudders race held at Cholmondeley Castle. The photo above, he tells us, is a team shot taken after the event. The team […]
PAGB Awards
Your new PAGB eNews has a front page picture of this happy band. They are the CPAGB award winners at the recent assessment. Recognise anyone? Congratulations to Ray and Kath Hill (and Ray Girling of MCCC) in gaining their CPAGBs! If you are interested in these awards there is a mentoring session in November for […]
A great night with Lastolite
The season kicked off last night (Thursday 3 September) with a visit by Keith Sanderson who showed us a range of Lastolite products, including a couple of items only released that very day! Studio workers felt particularly at home, but there was much for all of us. Keith explained, for example, how a reflector can […]
Shooting Eventing by Martin McGing
One of the benefits of being a member of a photographic club is you have the opportunity to see a wide variety of work which can inspire you to venture out and try something new. Over the past two seasons I have seen some excellent eventing images and earlier this year I decided that I […]
Beautiful Bokeh
Bob’s picture illustrates very well how a blurred background can help to make your subject “stand out”; it is a favourite technique of nature and portrait photographers especially. A lens which produces a lovely even background blurring is said to have “good bokeh” (we didn’t have a word for it, so borrowed from the Japanese). […]
Ray Hill
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: This week with our lead item we are returning to celebrating last season’s successes. Here we see Ray Hill with some of the nature prints which won him the nature print league trophy last season. Ray’s skills are not confined to nature photos, in his many travels he turns his lens to landscapes […]