Rob Hockney

who had four images accepted; "Iceform", which scored 14 in our recent print worker competition               "Lost Control"               Fulmar               Razorbill in flight               Congratulations to Graham.

Congrats to Aamir who had Thaddeus accepted in the Smethwick International Exhibition.

Having been forced to return to our old venue of the Council Chamber for our second Print worker competition the place was packed to the rafters to hear judge Christine Widdall's assessment of our images. The evening kicked off as usual with the Intermediate group when Christine's critical eye missed little, but her tongue was kind

Those of you at the club yesterday evening will have heard Leigh talk about the merits of participating in photographic workshops and his offer to run one for us. Noel and others followed this up with him in the pub and we could be in a position to offer something along the following lines if we

Great opportunity to join an afternoon workshop in Manchester with a pro photographer and model for 4hrs and only £50. if you're interested copy the link below into your browser and away you go. Its next Wednesday, 19th Nov. http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/location-lighting-workshop-manchester-tickets-13804693209?aff=eorg Location Lighting Workshop - Manchester Learn about on-location lighting, with particular reference to shooting with the

I'm selling my little Fuji X-E1 with its 18-55mm f2.8-4.0 lens, plus 50-230mm f4.5-6.7 lens and a rather nice Crumpler bag. They're on e -bay right now with reserve prices of £400 for the camera and £100 for the 50-230mm. (Closing next Monday). If you want to get into the small and mirror-less camera area and

Last night saw Mike Lawrence return to NCPS to give a lively, informative and entertaining demonstration of the use of on-camera flash. Many of the audience had confessed to having a flashgun somewhere in there kit bag, but rarely using it (the author included) whereas Mike uses his for 30-40% of all his photographs -

Would anyone wishing to respond to the call for amusing and entertaining images for the Christmas Special please email them to Tony Redford at tony.redford@btinternet.com Thanks

Folks, Don't forget Tuesday 4th November is hand-in day for entries into our second Print Worker competition. We're at Hazel Grove that evening. The competition itself is on 18th November when the judge will be Christine Widdall MPAGB etc. etc. I hope there will be a healthy competition for second place.

After our 1st and 2nd in the Individual competition, expectations were high yesterday evening for a similar performance in the Inter-club print and PDI competitions. Alas, it was not to be and we had to settle for joint 3rd in the prints and joint 2nd in the PDIs behind Macclesfield CC who won both competitions at