Notices and news

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.

  Great to see close on 100 visitors on both competition nights, and to witness NCPS finishing a creditable 2nd out of the 17 clubs competing in Wednesday's print event and equal 3rd out of 19 clubs in Thursday's PDI Knock-out challenge. Chorley PS must be congratulated on leading the pack at both competitions.  Here are the full results:-        

Your diaries should already show that the only place to be on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - the 20th, 21st and 22nd March - is the Civic Hall, Poynton! On display will be our club's print and PDI entry of course, but not to be missed are the North Cheshire Challenges - doors open 7.00pm

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 -

SPS Knockout Competition advert 2019

This weekend NCPS competed with 38 other clubs for the honour of representing our region at the national PDI and Print competitions. In a weekend of very low scoring by the judges a specific mention goes to Rob & Annette Hockney who both scored 14 out of 15 for images in the nature print section.