Last Tuesday we had a very enjoyable evening provided by our very own NCPS 'life member' Tony Redford. With his images he took us around the north part of our country, from Scotland to Northumberland and then over to the Lake District. He then showed us his regular festive and much requested humorous Xmas Cards
The Battle of the Sexes Competition on Tuesday, was a thoroughly enjoyable evening all round. Our judges Christine Widdall & Mike Lawrence came dressed for the part, and openly encouraged booing, hissing and much laughter for a fun evening. All of which was delivered in bucket loads including flag waving from the girls and mumbling
The syllabus for the 2017-18 season is very nearly complete and I have just five slots left to fill. So far it follows the familiar pattern of, primarily, talks from visiting speakers, competitions and image assessment evenings with one Big Night scheduled for March 2018. I've dropped the Boys vs Girls competition (it has been
Mike Lawrence judged our 3rd pdi competition on Tuesday. He was presented with 38 images to consider. Mike felt overall standard was very good. He stressed that post processing was very important, and how a lot of problems can be easily dealt with in photoshop. Highlighted areas especially detract from main subject , but should
A reminder that the second instalment of the "Show and Tell" for the "Autumn" assignment is this coming Monday in the Vernon Arms, starting at 8pm. Members of the Dev G. who couldn't make the first running please bring your images on a stick for an informal evening of image critique and other photo banter.
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Hi you Canon users, my good friend Steve Deer is selling his macro lens, it's as good as brand new - he was given it by Canon for letting them make a film about him, he's not used it. http://www.wexphotographic.com/buy-canon-ef-100mm-f-2-8l-macro-is-usm-lens/p1033229 Macro is not his thing and never will be so a good chance to bag
MARK HAMBLIN WILD NATURE OF THE CAIRNGORMS Tuesday saw the 1st of our Big Nights. Mark Hamblin is an award winning professional nature photographer. Originally from Warwickshire, he started in 1995 as a freelance nature photographer, he then lived for 18 years in Sheffield, and for the last 14 years is now presently living in
The closing date for submitting images to the PAGB GB Nature Cup is the 15th January, and NCPS will be taking part. We need to submit 21 PDIs with a maximum of three per author. If you have a fantastic nature image (which MUST be compliant with the Nature rules) and want it to be considered for
Last night NCPS came 9th in the L&CPU knock-out competition. It took place in Chorley, and 45 (yes, 45!) clubs participated. The format of the competiton is as follows: Clubs submit 8 PDIs and depending on how may clubs enter 4 or more may be used. Last night each club had four images in round