Big congratulations to Darrell and Geoff who gained their DPAGB today. The adjudication took place in Maidstone and Darrell was there to witness the tension. Keeping a running total of the scores is very nerve wracking and the judging took the best part of 4 hours. In...

Following our 4th and final internal competition of the 2013-14 season the results have now been compiled. The battle for first place was hotly contested and with only 10 points between first and third the result could have gone either way. 1st Darrell Oakden 2nd...

Congratulations to Geoff for accumulating enough acceptances to be awarded his BPE2*.   He gained 4 acceptances in the Neath and District salon taking him over the magic 50 number. In the same salon Darrell got 5 acceptances and Jason got 2.   In the future...

On Thursday night we were treated to an excellent evening of entertainment from David Keith Jones. David is a professional photographer and gave us a detailed account of how his hobby of photography led to his ability to make it his full time job. The first part of...

This weeks external competition between Newcastle was extremely close. So close in fact that after the allocation of a potentail 600 points per club we ended tied for for place. Judge Rob Hockney provided some very articulate feedback and after the print round Alsager...

  Today seven of us attended the L&CPU Big Day.  We all had a thoroughly superb day with a wide variety of excellent speakers: Sean Conboy: Professional Architecture Photographer: www.photo-genics.com Colin Prior: Professional Landscape Photographer:...

I would like to inform you about this year’s L&CPU Individual Competition. Although this is a competition for individual photographers rather than an interclub competition, and images are chosen by the photographer, all entries must be centrally administered and...

Tonight saw Alsager take a comfortable victory against Nantwich in our annual interclub competition. According to several senior members this is the first time that this has happened (certainly for a long while). Judge Tremaine Cornish offered very positive and...

Tonight we were treated to a fascinating talk from Boyd Harris from Chorley PS. He enthralled   us with his tales and photographs of one of his treks through the mountainous areas of Nepal. His is lively and friendly style worked hand in hand with a very slick and...

The Newcastle external competition has had to be brought forward to Thursday 27th March. We are going to hold the competition at Alsager. The website calendars have been updated.