Paul came to talk to us last Tuesday about his Northern Portraits. His talk was entertaining as he took us through his thinking behind his approach to his pictures. Paul primarily uses a Hasselblad 500C/M film camera.He also occasionally uses a Canon. Most of his pictures are taken with an 85mm lens and he uses
The next L&CPU PDI Club Knock-Out competition will be held on 19th November 2016. The venue for the evening is the Albany Academy, Chorley.Judge for the night is: Mr. Peter Gennard MFIAP, EFIAP. This is a fun competition night with a serious side. Meet old friends, make new. The winning club and, author of the winning
Please welcome Mike Robinson to North Cheshire PS. Here's a few words and a photo from Mike: Having tinkered with cameras for a while I began taking it more seriously in 2012 when I started combining photography with diving and taking pictures under water. Having recently moved to Cheshire I have hung up my fins
The PAGB Inter-Club Print Championship was held on Sunday 6th November. Federations each nominate two Clubs to take part alongside the Finalists from the previous year. In our case this is the L&CPU and NCPS was successful in being selected because we did well in the L&CPU Print Competition. Trophies and PAGB medals are awarded to
The Martin Avery interclub competition was instigated by Tony Myers about 15 years ago in memory of Martin. Tony and Martin were both creative photographers who ran workshops for others to encourage participation in the genre. The Martin Avery trophy has the medals that Martin won embedded within it. The overall outcome from last night's
The Martin Avery interclub competition is being held on Monday 24th October, and is hosted by Southport Photographic Society. This is a creative print competition, and NCPS is competing. All members are welcome to come along and support our club. The link for Southport Photographic Society is here: Southport
For our club night on the 11th October, Neil Hulme gave a presentation titled 'Moments in Mono'. Neil has been involved in photography for 7 years. He took an 8 week course which had him hooked! He uses a Nikon D7-100 camera mostly with a 10-20mm Sigma lens and uses F11-16 for the majority of his
Congratulations to Lisa Mullins for gaining the British Photographic Exhibitions (BPE) Level 1. This requires 25 images to be accepted in the BPE exhibitions. A great achievement, well done Lisa!
We now have an active Twitter account. Those of you using Twitter , search for @NCPhotographic to find us. The intention is to use this to communicate the results of competitions as they happen, so the first opportunity will be this weekend for the L&CPU PDI and Print competitions. Come and join in!
I've just used the new PDI uploader, and it's great. It's very easy to use, simple and straightforward. Thanks very much Danny!