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Congratulations to Crewe – Narrow victory in interclub battle

Congratulations to Crewe – Narrow victory in interclub battle

I’ve just returned from an epic interclub  battle with Crewe. For those of you who couldn’t make it was truly nail biting. We took a convincing lead of ten points at the end of the prints round and went into the interval with very high spirits. However, as the PDI...

Richard Renshaw’s new exhibition shoes beauty of the Potteries

Richard Renshaw’s new exhibition shoes beauty of the Potteries

NEW EXHIBITION: Forget views of Miami, pretty Welsh beaches and iconic architecture - photographer Richard Redshaw, above, is out to show landscapes of the Potteries can be just as beautiful. The first exhibition by the 66-year-old from Hartshill compares shots of his...

Good result for the club in the L&CPU knockout

Good result for the club in the L&CPU knockout

L&CPU Club PDI KNOCK OUT 16th November 2013 The results for last night's L&CPU knockout have been posted on the L&CPU website. Alsager CC came a very respectable joint 13th out of 37 clubs. Well done to Sandra with “Ouch” gaining our highest score. This is...

Judging seminar success

Judging seminar success

Congratulations to Darrell for being invited to join the L&CPU approved judges list. Darrell attended the judges seminar a few weeks ago and over the course of the day underwent several assessments to test his judging style and capability. There was also a theory...

Exiftoool to report on exif data?

Exiftool is a useful tool for viewing the exif data of an image. This is useful for check the size and colour space of an image before entering it into a competition. It is  available here. It has a nice way of packaging options into the filename so that if you copy...

Help with printing.

Help with printing.

Preparing prints for competitions really comes in 2 parts, getting your image printed and mounting the print. The club is going to try and help with both of these. The first part is getting photos printed. Bring your 'ready to print' photos on a stick next week (jpeg,...

Results for the 2nd internal competiton

Results for the 2nd internal competiton

Thursday night saw our second internal competion. Judge Steve Carr was very good – entertaining and constructive. All of the results and competiton winning images are on the site. I hope first time entrants didn’t find the process too traumatising. Sorry to the worker...

Last meeting with Guest Speaker – Terry Donnelly

Last meeting with Guest Speaker – Terry Donnelly

Last night we had a very interesting talk from Terry Donnelly ARPS DPAGB BPE4*. He began by showing us his progression through his successful LRPS and ARPS panels. Terry talked about the intention behind the images in his panels and the process involved. He then moved...

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