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Oldham Camera Club

Oldham Camera Club are holding an Exhibition on the theme of "Trees and Treen" at Gallery Oldham between Saturday 17th May and the 14th June.  The exhibition is on show in the Community Gallery and coincides with the main gallery's "Trees" exhibition.  On show is a variety of work representing different styles and approaches to the theme from the members with the official opening on the 17th between 1pm and 2pm.  Gallery opening times are 10 am to 5 pm, Monday to Saturday.

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Crewe Photographic Society

Recently Crewe Photographic Society held its annual awards evening and for the first time our Chairman, John Royle instigated a couple of special new “Chairman’s Awards”:  

The Outstanding Service Medal has been created to honour the remarkable work of the largely unsung heroes of Crewe Photographic Society.  The first recipients are our long standing (and suffering) Club Secretary  Tom Seaton and his wife MarySeaton our Competition Secretary.   John felt it was high time that we said how much we appreciate what they do for the society. There are others too, who we will pay tribute to in time but nobody can fail to agree that a tribute is long, long overdue to Tom & Mary.  They are great ambassadors for the Club when we make visits elsewhere. We salute them.  

Tom & Mary Seaton

Chairman’s Choice was a new prize that was instigated to celebrate members’ work on a broader basis.  It is intended to be used as an opportunity to comment on the successes of our members in our competitions and highlight the work of some people in particular.  “Dancing Through Time”, by Carol Cotter, was John’s choice as the first Image of the Year. ( Look out for Carol's Image as 'Image of the Week')

Carol Cotter

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Southern Photographic Society

Gwen and Phil spent a few day in the Isle of Man where they presentened a seminar at the Port Erin Lecture theatre on Saturday & the following day judged the Southern Photographic Society annual exhibition.

The Judging	Viewing the winners	The Winners
P&G with Brian Goldie	Winners	P&G with Dave Moores

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Centenary Exhibition

Some of the guests at the opening of the the last showing of the Centenary Exhibition at Towneley Hall on Saturday 19th April 2008

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Results of the Geoffrey Round RPS/IAC International Competition held in Bradford 5th & 6th April

Jill K Bunting CPAGB receiving the FIAP Silver Medal and the Geoffrey Round Silver Trophy from Linda Gough - the IAC Chair or her sequence ' The Colour Thief' 
Picture by kind permission of Geoff Noxon

Howard Gregory receiving his FIAP Blue Ribbon from Keith Scott RPS AV Group Chairman for his sequence - '1 in 3.7'
Picture Maureen Albright

Howard Bagshaw receiving his FIAP Blue Ribbon from Keith Scott RPS AV Group Chairman for - 'Scottish Reflections' 
Picture, Maureen Albright

The Award Winners
FIAP Gold Medal	25	One Day One Life	Pier Louigi Montali	Italy
FIAP Silver Medal	14	The Colour Thief	Jill K Bunting	UK
FIAP Bronze Medal	53	Talbot House	Linda & Edgar Gibbs	UK
Fiap Blue Ribbon	19	The Red Shoes	David & Carol Gillow	UK
Fiap Blue Ribbon	23	Peril in the Snow	Malcolm Imhoff	UK
Fiap Blue Ribbon	27	Us Two	Valerie Rawlins	UK
Fiap Blue Ribbon	33	The Forest of Tana mahuta	Erhard Hobrecker	Switzerland
Fiap Blue Ribbon	38	1 in 3.7	Howard Gregory	UK
Fiap Blue Ribbon	44	Scottish Reflections	Howard Bagshaw	UK
Best First Time Entrant
George & Doreen Pollock Medal	5	Endurance	Lee Broderick	UK
FIAP Acceptance	7	The Gathering	Ian Bateman	UK
FIAP Acceptance	12	Night Visitor	David & Carol Gillow	UK
FIAP Acceptance	15	Stand Proud Brother	Robert Albright	UK
FIAP Acceptance	16	The Survivors	Ron Davies	UK
FIAP Acceptance	21	The Messiah	John Smith	UK
FIAP Acceptance	22	Honda	Marion Waine	UK
FIAP Acceptance	26	A Time to Learn	Eddie Spence	UK
FIAP Acceptance	29	Shop Window Dummy	Piet Huygens	Netherlands
FIAP Acceptance	35	What Women Want	Maureen Albright	UK
FIAP Acceptance	40	A Bit of a Do	Valerie Rawlins	UK
FIAP Acceptance	41	A Glen of Weeping	David Morland	UK
FIAP Acceptance	48	Simon	Gilles Lucus-Leclin & Ricardo Zarate	France
FIAP Acceptance	50	Hotel Dieu	Howard Bagshaw	UK
FIAP Acceptance	51	La Femme Aux Bas Blancs	Jean-Paul Petit	France
FIAP Acceptance	52	The Way Forward	Peter Coles	UK
FIAP Acceptance	54	The Beach in the Wall	James Hamill	UK
FIAP Acceptance	56	A Face in the Crowd	David Pickford	UK
FIAP Acceptance	57	All Stations to..	Philip Barker	UK
FIAP Acceptance	58	The Kiss	Bryan Stubbs	UK
FIAP Acceptance	59	Destiny	Brian Harvey	UK
FIAP Acceptance	60	Minerale Eternite	Jean-Paul Guibal	France
FIAP Acceptance	61	Steam	Ken Biggs	UK
FIAP Acceptance	62	This Native Land of Mine	Eddie Spence	UK

The ones in red are all members of the Wilmslow Guild AV Group

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Southport Photographic Society

Gordon Jenkins Past president presenting Peter Pauwels with the L&CPU Acorn Trophy for the winners of the L&CPU Inter Club Print Championship.

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President NT & GJ with Radio Presenter Diana Tackley at Cheshire FM on Sunday 16th March

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Gordon Jenkins welcoming the new L&CPU President Mr. Norman Thompson DPAGB LBIPP at the 102nd AGM on Saturday 23rd February more pictures from the AGM

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A super sleuth caught our focal points editor up to no good at Focus
(bet it's not tea in those cups)

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New Lecture

Exotic Wildlife Photography - advice on planning trips;
photos from exotic locations by Sheila Davies CPAGB
Category  AV;  D;  P
sdaviesphoto@btinternet.com

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Harry Emmett indroducing 'TheDay with Wigan 10' at Accrington CC on Sunday 9th March

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The L&CPU win both competitions

The L&CPU did rather well and we congratulate the Winners Wigan10 Foto Club for winning the GB Cup and Hoylake Photographic Society for winning the Small Club Competition and all the other L&CPU clubs that entered.

Full Results

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The following members of the L&CPU have been successful in obtaining these FIAP Distinctions.

Margaret Sixsmith Hoylake PS EFIAP
John Sixsmith Hoylake PS EFIAP
Maureen Glynn SLIC AFIAP
Mike Lawrence Oldham PS AFIAP
Marco Pozzi Wigan 10 AFIAP
Eb Swarbrick SLIC AFIAP
Carol Tipping Hoylake PS AFIAP
Christine Widdall Oldham PS AFIAP

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AV Competition - Pictures from the 2008 Event

For results go to the competition page

Pictures

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Pictures from the Opening of North Cheshire PS Exhibition and Digital Competitions

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'An Evening with Andy Rouse, the internationally renowned wildlife photographer.
He is coming to Warrington Photographic Society to give one of his talks which will be superb and an event not to miss.

The date is Friday 23rd May 2008 at 7.30pm and will be ticket only event.
All the details are on www.warringtonps.co.uk

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Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House has just launched 'viewfinder 08' photographic competition.
They are looking to find the best photographs capturing the spirit of Blackwell in its spectacular and ever-changing Lakeland setting.
Each month one photograph will be selected to show the changing beauty season by season.

More information and terms and conditions available at

http://www.blackwell.org.uk/viewfinder08.shtml

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FIAP 2nd World Cup

Maurice Jones from Wigan 10 at the FIAP Headquarters in Paris standing in front of the Wigan 10 prints displayed in the FIAP Gallery.

Maurice won a bronze Medal in the competition.

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Southport Photographic Society

Who are the Champions?

Peter Gennard from Smethwick PS presenting Ed Roper from Wigan 10 with the trophy for the competition “Who are the Champions”.
The competition was supported by eight clubs from the L&CPU.

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Warrington PS

1. Warrington PS now have a touring lecture of our historic lantern slide collection (652 images) dating back to the 1890s. This collection has been digitally scanned for easier projection due to a lottery award. The images and lecture are very interesting and provide a different evening for clubs for their programmes. It is in the LCPU handbook under Martin Berry LRPS. Some of the images are now starting to appear on Warrington PS's web site but this will take some time.

2. Warrington PS has updated its website with a new format and series of galleries. It is a great advert for clubs to use and every club should give it serious consideration. They are attracting alot of new members via their website. www.warringtonps.co.uk

3. Warrington PS had a portrait evening before Christmas with trained birds of prey provided by Raptor Vision. They are based outside of Wigan and are available to visit clubs or arrange outdoor workshops at very competitive prices. They provide 'natural' settings and the birds are fully trained and very well behaved. Warrington PS had a great evening and some images are available on their news page of our website. There is even an image of Martin Berry with a golden eagle on his arm. It is a different opportunity to normal lectures. Raptor vision are very professional and have been used by the BBC for the Nature in Britain filming. www.raptorvision.co.uk

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Bury PS

I have just been informed that a member of BURY PS Barrie Kelly has a major article in Lancashire Life in the December issue 2007 about his life as a nature photographer and also as a former International sprinter who represented Great Britain in the Mexico Olympics in 1968. It covers 4 pages, and contains 11 photographs of his recent trip to Namibia. Well Done Barrie!

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Crewe Photographic Society

Crewe Photographic Society held their 3rd Annual DPI Competition for the Jim Harrison Trophy last night (6th December 2007). The trophy was donated by our centenarian member Jim Harrison in 2005 but sadly Jim died in November 2006 a few months after his 100th birthday (the L&CPU struck a special medal for him). The competition now reminds us of a wonderful gentleman who was still an active photographer - and digital too!

The winning image last night was "Impala & New Born Calf" by Ken Dickenson, who is also a member of Mid-Cheshire CC. We also recognise the "Best Monochrome Image" and that went this year to John Royle CPAGB for "Dermot O'Reilly, Drayman". There were 102 entries from 26 members. The judge was Ian Stewart ARPS DPAGB.

Pictured: Ken Dickenson receives the Jim Harrison Trophy from Ian Stewart ARPS DPAGB.

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Sandbach Photographic Society

“Further Down the Alley Way”by Nigel Richards was joint first for Sandbach in the battle between Sandbach and Nantwich.

The author of the other print joint winner who also won the slides was Andrew Charlesworth of Nantwich
Nantwich won the battle, it was close in the prints with Nantwich scoring 175 against Sandbach 174 but with the slides Nantwich pulled ahead with 180 against Sandbach 172  giving a final score of Nantwich 355 - Sandbach 346.

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MAKEOVER STUDIO

A new Studio has been opened in Oldham by Mike and Norman, which is within easy access from the M60 and M62. It is available for hire to individuals or groups of photographers.

More Details

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Attention for all those clubs that are planning their syllabus for the next season, a new lecture has been offered to the L&C by Phil and Gwen Charnock.