This week is the result of our second  members’ competition of the year.

Ashton Memorial

This is our themed competition of the year. At the end of each year the outgoing president sets the theme for the following year. Last year it was the turn of Society President Vic Crumley to set the theme and he chose “Lancaster”.

We hold a number of members competitions’ throughout the year. These competitions are an excellent way to focus our efforts, get a little feedback about our work and improve our photography.

Meeting Details:

• Wednesday 30th December; 7:30pm
• Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) - directions

For many years Syd Cumbus has provided a summary of the week’s meeting to the Lancaster Guardian for their increasingly irregular social scene column. We’re now very happy to be able to also present these round ups on the website.

The President of the Society, Christian Cable introduced Neil Pascoe CPAGB as the judge for the first of the competitions of the season. Neil is a member of Hassra Fylde Photographic Society and a keen landscape and pictorial worker. His criteria for adjudication incuded looking for dynamic angles and impact of an exhibited image.

Results:-

Colour Prints – Highly Commended

1. ‘In the Pink’ – Sheenagh Crumley
2. ‘Val Gardena, Italian Dolomites’ – Syd Cumbus
3. ‘All Set’ – Peter Fishwick

Colour Prints – Commended

1. ‘Fill her up’ and ‘Falcon’ both Peter Fishwick
2. ‘Liverpool Street Busker’ and ‘Bumble Bee’ both Alan Hartley
3. ‘Only seen at low water’ – Chris Thoume

Monochrome Prints – Highly Commended

1. ‘Schwararzenstein, South Tyrol, Italy’ – Alan Hartley

Monochrome Prints – Commended

1. ‘Watertight’ – Sheenagh Crumley
2. ‘High on the London Eye’ – Vic Crumley
3. ‘Euskotran No 407, Bilbao’ and ‘The Opera House, Bordeaux’ both Syd Cumbus

Digital Projected Images (Colour) – Highly Commended

1. ‘Evening Reflections’ – John Aldred
2. ‘Bistort with Caterpillar’ – Alan Hartley

Digital Projected Images (Colour) – Commended

1. ‘Easter’ – Christian Cable
2. ‘Looking down on You’ – Sally Anderson
3. ‘Rusty Flower’ and ‘Rusty Wire’ both Sheenagh Crumley
4. ‘Budle Bay’ – Vic Crumley
5. ‘Leopard’ – Mike Atkinson

Digital Projected Images (Monochrome) – Highly Commended

1. ‘Oi! – get off’ and ‘Do I smell dinner’ both John Aldred
2. ‘Saxon Church’ – Mike Atkinson

Digital Projected Images (Monocrome) – Commended

1. ‘Zebra’ – Mike Atkinson
2. ‘Building Shapes’ and ‘Fallen Petals’ both Sheenagh Crumley
3. ‘Hawthorn Tree’ – Alan Hartley

The vote of thanks was proposed by Christian Cable.

This week is the result of our first members’ competition of the year. Our judge this evening will be Neil Pascoe of Lytham St. Annes Photographic Society. Neil will visit to discuss our entities and award points which will go towards our annual prize giving.

This was one of our open themed competitions which means entries may be of any subject the author chooses.

We hold a number of members competitions’ throughout the year. These competitions are an excellent way to focus our efforts, get a little feedback about our work and improve our photography.

Meeting Details:

• Wednesday 2nd November; 7:30pm
• Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) – directions

This week are the results of our projected image competition. This is our main projected image competition of the year, the sister to the annual print competition, and aims to showcase some of the very best of the society’s work.

We are joined once again by Diane Owen FRPS who will judge the entries. The points awarded from this will go towards our annual prize giving.

Many members will remember Diane from her talk she gave the society not so long ago and I have to say that her artwork is well worth visiting her website to view.

We hold a number of competitions throughout the year. While we may not always agree with everything our guest judges say, we do agree that these competitions are an excellent way to focus our efforts and improve our photography.

As has become our custom on nights like this we’ll be splitting our meeting into two halves.

The first half will be the third of our portfolio nights of the year.

We’ll be holding a group discussion to review the projected images portfolio from the Lancashire & Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU)

These portfolios are made up of images taken from across the many photographic societies that make up the L&CPU and are a good way of seeing what work is currently taking place across the region.

For the second half of the evening everyone is encouraged to bring in an image or other bit of photographic work (either print or digital file) to show people and discuss.

Competition Deadline …

This week is also the deadline for entries for our Annual Projected Images competition!

Members may submit up to:

• 2 projected images in colour
• 2 projected images in monochrome

New images, or entries from the 3 previous monthly competitions may be submitted, either in colour or mono.

The full rules and details can be found on our Competition Rules page.

This week is result of our annual print competition. This is our main print competition of the year and aims to showcase some of the very best of the society’s work. We are joined once again by Barry Colquhoun FRPS, FBIPP, DPAGB who will judge the entries. The points awarded from this will go towards our annual prize giving.

We hold a number of competitions throughout the year.  While we may not always agree with everything our guest judges say, we do agree that these competitions are an excellent way to focus our efforts and improve our photography.

A number of people have asked me about the the results of the recent competitions and these shall go on the site sometime over the next week.