On Tuesday we had our 2nd print competition of the season. Judge Brian Law was presented with 60 images to judge. His scores ranged from a couple of 13's, lots of 16's to just the one 20. A few comments about sensor spots, photographing other peoples art and mounts that had seen better days were
Our very own NCPS member Alan Saunders took time out of his birthday schedule and entertained us for the evening on Tuesday with a variety of images from wildlife, macro, landscapes, night and astro photography. He took us around the country from local haunts such as Poynton Pool and Pott Shrigley, to far away fields
DOUG CHINNERY Doug made a welcome return to North Cheshire, and this time it was a more practical talk about all things printing related. His goal was to simplify and demystify as best as he could about printing. How satisfying printing is and any art should have an artefact and the photography process is not
GLYN DEWIS Glyn Dewis kicked off a fantastic start to the season and the New Year! There was a great turn out for Glyn, with many visitors from other clubs, including 1 coming from North Wales just to see the presentation, proving how popular Glyn is. The 1st part of the evening he concentrated on
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
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
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
Roger Evans judged our 1st print competition of the season. Although a new judge for LCPU, he is an experienced judge elsewhere. A member of Chester PS, his interests as a photographer are sport, landscape & wildlife although his nature shots are more macro, rather than birds or mammals. He has been taking photographs for
Members were invited to bring along images either prints or pdi's on Tuesday for an image assessment evening. Each table had a leader to encourage members to give their opinions, assess & critique each image shown. After period of time members moved clockwise to the next table & leaders moved anti-clockwise. A very enjoyable evening