Graham Johnston receives DPAGB
I'm sure everyone will be as pleased as I was to learn that Graham was awarded a DPAGB at the recent PAGB Adjudication of Awards for Merit in Ormskirk. Sounds like the sort of man we should be recruiting into NCPS!
Royal Society of Biology’s amateur photography competition
Hi everyone, I have just recently received this email and thought some of you may be interested in entering, however the closing date is the 31st so you'll have to hurry: I thought you and your associates at the North Cheshire Photographic Society may be interested to hear about the Royal Society of Biology’s
We’re going to Ellesmere Port after all
Yes folks; after the discovery of an irregularity with the qualifying entry of Wigan PS at the L&CPU Annual back in May they have been disqualified and we, as fifth-placed club in the prints, have been invited to take their place in the 2015 PAGB Inter-Club Print Competition. It's on Sunday 25th October and being
The Only Way is Pemberley exhibition – Preview Night at Stockport Art Gallery
Hi everyone I have just received an email from a friend of club, namely Matt Blonc, who used to join us at Hazel Grove occasionally (sitting at the back). He's a professional photographer who, amongst other work, runs workshops for Calumet. Anyway, I digress, he has an exhibition from this weekend at Stockport Art Gallery
POYNTON SHOW
Want to try something different? Want photographic opportunities you don’t normally get? (for free!) Are you getting bored with your photography? Here is your opportunity to:- Get the Mayor and the MP to pose by a stall selling fruit wines. Take picture of a table full of decorated cupcakes. Walk into the middle of an
Rosalind Bramley Cup Found
I'm delighted (not to mention, relieved) to advise that we've found the Rosalind Bramley Cup! Arguably it was never lost, buried as it was behind a load of old stuff in the back of our cupboard. I'll give it to its most recent winner, Joyce Streets, for safe keeping at the start of the new
New Selection Committee Chair
Following Graham's flight south I'm delighted to announce that Noel Patterson has taken over the role of Chair of our Selection Committee. He has a hard act to follow, not least in getting us to Warwick in 2016 when we have to compete against Chorley and the other top clubs in the L&CPU for the two
The Return of the Old Website!
Hi everyone, you thought it had gone forever (me included), well it's back! The old site is now part of this site and you can access it using the link below or (as the eagle-eyed amongst you will already have seen) use the link on the front page of the site. I am glad to
British Institute of Professional Photography comes to Cheshire
Hi everyone – I have just received this via email and thought it might be of interest to some of you, take and look and see what you think. Leah Lewis writes... I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that on 12th August the BIPP will be in Cheshire, delivering a workshop
Is anybody out there?
Just for a bit of fun, and to help preserve my sanity, if you are reading this would you please send me an email at rob.hockney@gmail.com so that I know I'm not the last person still alive in cyberspace.