Annette Hockney

Congratulations to Louise Pickford who won the trophy for best overall performance in the Photography competition at Poynton Show on Saturday. Here’s Louise with her haul of rosettes.

NCPS took part in the PAGB PDI interclub competition last Saturday at Warwick University.Clubs from all the PAGB federations take part, and 38 clubs were in the competition. Apart from us, Warrington Photographic Society, Chorley and Wigan 10 were there from the L&CPU. The competition takes place in two rounds, followed by the Plate competition and

The L&CPU has two large exhibitions this summer, both held at a new venue: Leigh Spinners Mill, Park Street, Leigh, Lancashire. WN7 2LB This venue is being turned into a community centre and is keen to welcome the L&CPU. Take a look at: http://leighspinnersmill.co.uk L&CPU Annual Exhibition The exhibition opens on Saturday 6th July at

The next RPS DIG NW Centre meeting on the 12th. May. This is the final reminder and the venue is as follows: Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane, Frodsham, Cheshire WA6 7QN. This time the speaker is Rob Knight and he will talk about the power and flexibility of Lightroom. The cost of the meeting is £8

The NCPS AGM will be held on the 7th May 2019.  Any motions members would like debating need to be with the Secretary (Annette Hockney) by 23rd April. The agenda and documents will be available on the blog the week before the AGM.

After the immense success of hosting Mark Helliwell a few weeks ago, Sale Photographic Society have the renowned Natural History photographer Andrew Parkinson coming to visit on Thursday the 21st March  with his enthralling talk entitled : “British Wildlife Through The Seasons” Venue : St Mary’s Church Centre, Moss Lane, Sale Cheshire  M33 6GD -

The PDI competition took place on 2nd March and our scores were as follows: PDI Open, 16 images per club, 38 clubs Caught in Reflection by Annette - 11 Dismounting the Beam - Noel - 13 Don't try This at Home - Rob - 10 Double Strike by Noel - 12 For your Eyes Only

Bolton Camera Club have booked some key note speakers this year. The first of them will be Nigel Danson on Landscape Photography on Thursday 14th February  In June 2017 Nigel swapped his office seat for full time hiking boots and decided to take up photography professionally and grow his now thriving YouTube channel. His passion is

Some of you may remember that the L&CPU used to publish a newsletter called 'Focal Points'.  At a recent Executive Committee meeting it was decided to reinstate the newsletter electronically.  If you are interested in subscribing, follow this link Focal Points. If you have news that you would like including in the newsletter send it