The President at St Helens CC

Wilmslow Guild Win £1000 1st Prize in National Club Competition The macro skills of Wilmlow Guild PS members have won them first place in Digital SLR User magazine's national competition. WGPS will have no trouble spending the £1,000, so no begging letters please! Full story Shown is Poppy by Dave Griffiths, one of the images submitted.

 

President at Haworth Gallery Following a visit to Haworth Gallery, Accrington in June to open the Accrington CC Exhibition Christine Widdall was asked if she would like to return to the gallery to view the collection of Tiffany glass (the largest collection in Europe). She was there last night (12th August 2010). The painting by David Cox (1783-1859) which Christine is holding was one item presently in storage at the gallery. Note the white cotton gloves, the painting may be worth £8,000! Read the full story by Harry Emmett, President of Accrington CC

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Start 'em young - from Lytham St Annes PS

Brian Crawford, Exhibition Co-ordinator for Lytham St. Annes P.S. (LSAPS), organised a photographic competition for local school children.

Pupils in Years 3 – 6 at Heyhouses Endowed C of E Primary School were able to enter the competition by taking photograph to illustrate ‘Why I enjoy living in Lytham St Annes’. . . . .(continued)

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A Happy Result for the WEBSITE (22/7/2010)

EARLIER NEWS - Friday 21st May -Whalley Primary School are planning a whole week (beginning 12th July) devoted to the history of photography and cinema and are looking for someone who could go into the school for a day and spend time with each of the four infant classes - please email Drew Spencer.

The announcement above drew two responses and KEN GEDDES was finally the one who helped them out. He has emailed to say...I gave four x 45 minute talks last Thursday (15th July) to four different age groups on the early history of photography,  some modern photographers and how to take better pictures. The children were a credit to themselves and their school. Attentive, interactive, friendly and perfectly behaved. Interestingly, the school has a good number of digital camera and computers and the older pupils do photography as a part of their studies. A most interesting day. Best regards, Ken Geddes.  Thank you Ken.

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Members of Sale Photographic Society completed the Manchester to Liverpool Charity bike ride on Sunday 30th May. As a result over £500-00 was raised for charity. I would like to add names if someone can email them in! Publicity - Charity - Fun (Exhaustion?) - Well done!

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PAGB DISTINCTIONS - L&CPU SUCCESSES

Our congratulations to the following L&CPU Club members who were
successful at the PAGB adjudications in April 2010

PRINTS
Chris Carter, Chorley PS CPAGB, Ray Davies, Isle of Man PS  CPAGB, Janet Servante, Isle of Man PS CPAGB
David Wilkinson, Bury PS CPAGB, Kathryn Scorah DPAGB, Wigan 10 MPAGB

DPI
Lee Kitchingham, Grange PS CPAGB, Bernadette Kitchingham, Grange PS CPAGB

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The images will then be turned into short AVs  to represent the city of Liverpool. They will be shown in the Liverpool Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, which takes place from 1st May to 31st October. Liverpool is the only English city to be represented at the Expo and 70 million people are expected to attend.

               Above you can see Tony’s Reflections of Liverpool which won him the place and on the right one of his shots for the presentation -  Iconic Rock. You can view Tony's Expo 2010 images here. 25 April, 2010

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Look at IOM PS website for more information

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FIAP Distinctions Awarded - March 2010
This year the change in criteria resulted in a record number of applications for FIAP Distinctions, where a total of 75 were awarded to English workers. Of those, the following 11 are known to be in the L&CPU region. 
Our congratulations to you all. If there are any others, please do let us know.

EFIAP Bronze
John Sixsmith (HoylakePS)

AFIAP
Paul Bentley (Southport PS) - Joan Blease (Warrington PS) - Tremaine Cornish (Bebington PS)
Graham Dean (Darwen CC) - Rob Evans (Bebington PS) -Diana Magor (Hoylake PS)
Brian Magor (Hoylake PS) - Noel Morgan (Chorley PS) - Austin Thomas (Wigan 10)
Geoff Smith (Poulton le Fylde PS)

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The North Mersey Inter-Club Print Challenge....

.....is an annual battle between Crosby, Formby, Maghull and Ormskirk. Hosts this year were Formby and the judge was the L&CPU Treasurer Gordon Jenkins APAGB who acquitted himself well, as usual, making “informative and constructive comments in his friendly, knowledgeable, easy style”. The final score was Maghull Photography Club 41, Crosby 35, Formby 34 and Ormskirk 30 and Gordon presented the Warren Trophy to Maghull's Chairman, Doug Bennison.

The winning print, "In Memoriam", seen here, was another success for Jill Ledwidge, Maghull’s Secretary. The second place image was also from Maghull; Sandra Bennison’s “Liverpool One”.

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Our President - elect Christine Widdall has produced a captivating book about Saddleworth. Featuring (of course) her evocative photographs it also has a text about the folklore and history of Saddleworth and a foreword by Joe Cornish. All profits from sales will go to Christies Hospital. You can find out more about this beautiful book on Christine's website, directly at Blurb or here.

 

Print Results -PDI Results - NCPS Website - NCPS Blog

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Why Not Try AV?

Julie England has been in touch, telling us how they are raising the profile of AV at Joint Fylde PS (Poulton, Hassra, Lytham and sometimes Bispham and Fleetwood). They held a tutorial evening in October run by Julie together with Ron Davies, Ray Wilson and Barry Colquhoun. This was followed up last week with a non-competitive evening where each of 5 clubs had approximately a 20 minutes slot. They viewed 21 sequences – sounds like a successful venture that other clubs could try.
She hopes that the participants and many of you will go to the L&CPU AV Championships at Croston on Saturday 20th February. (310110)

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PAGB AWARDS
Our congratulations to the following L&CPU Club photographers who gained PAGB awards
at Stirling on 28/29th November :-

Susan Heaton LRPS Oldham PS gained a CPAGB in Prints
Pamela Clarke South Liverpool gained a CPAGB in Slides
Kevin Barnes Bebington PS gained a CPAGB in DPIs
Frank Findlow Bury PS gained a CPAGB in DPIs
Ken Dickenson Crewe PS gained a DPAGB in Prints
Adrian Lines LRPS Wigan PS gained a DPAGB in Prints
It was notable that none of the 8 submitting work for DPAGB in DPIs gained an award, though CPAGB PDIs were awarded.

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Postal Folios

We all know that joining a club is the best way to improve your photography but have you ever considered joining a postal portfolio too? This week Bob Rawlinson of Padiham & Bury contacted us about the Postal Photographic Club.

It was started in 1937 and has 100 members and 9 different circles. Images from everyone in the circle are collected and circulated to everyone in the circle for criticism and marking. Find out more at www.postalphotoclub.org.uk now on the LINKS page

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Help with Resizing PDIs - see Downloads Page

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FIAP Distinctions

New Rules from 2010 - PDF - Word

We have an excellent general guide to distinctions which has now been revised (May 2009). Updates in red .

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