With awards for nine categories, including those for children, the exhibition will showcase stunning images by world-class professional photographers and amateur hobbyists alike.

The exhibition is open daily 10:30am to 4:30pm until Sunday the 1st of July.

Admission to the gallery is £2.00 and there’s no charge for children under 16.

View more information about the exhibition can be found on the Rheged Centre website.

Sea view © Christian Cable

This is always a stunning sight and will be of particular interest to any of our members looking for inspiration for this year’s Seaside themed competition.

More details at Virtual Lancaster

Photographer of the Year Competition

Fred Johnstone Memorial Trophy for Photographer of the Year

Allan Hartley

Syd Cumbus Centenary Trohpy for Runner-up Photographer of the Year

Sheenagh Crumley

Neville Morton Cup for Highest Points in Colour Print Competitions

Allan Hartley

Neville Morton Cup for Highest Points in Monochrome Print Competitions

Allan Hartley

Neville Morton Cup for Highest Points in Projected Digital Image Competitions

John Aldred

Annual Print Competition

Syd Cumbus Trophy for Best Print

Sheenagh Crumley

Ruth Berry Trophy for Runner-up Print

Sheenagh Crumley

B&K Marsh Trophy for Best Monochrome Print

Sheenagh Crumley

Alan Cooper Cup for Best Landscape

Dave Moorhouse

Annual Projected Images Competition

Anderson Trophy for Best Colour Image

John Aldred

Past President’s Trophy for Best Monochrome Image

Allan Hartley

Other Awards

Ron Atkinson Trophy for Themed Competition on Lancaster

Sheenagh Crumley

Beginner’s Cup for Most Improved Photographer

Martin Rathbone

Congratulations to all of our winners this year and especially to Allan Hartley who became the first recipient of the Fred Johnstone Memorial Trophy for Photographer of the Year.

You can see many of the images from this year’s competitions on our competitions gallery.

• Hon. President………………………Sally Anderson
• Hon. Vice-President……………….Mike Atkinson
• Hon. Secretary………………………Sally Anderson
• Hon. Treasurer………………………Bill Wilcockson
• Programme Secretary…………….Christian Cable
• Competition Secretary……………Vic Crumley
• Web Master………………………….Christian Cable
• Committee members……………..John Allred – Mandy Foreman – Chris Thoume

A series of summer meetings for May, June and July have been arranged and further information will be found on this site and our facebook page soon.

It’s the night of the year where we plan what we as a Society will be aiming for over the next 12 months.

Agenda:

• Apologies for absence
• Minutes of AGM for 2011
• Matters arising not on this agenda
• President’s report
• Programme secretary’s report
• Treasurer’s report
• Competition Secretary’s report
• Election of President and Committee for season 2012-13

New president in the chair:

• Election of officers and committee members
• Review of competitions and trophies
• Summer visit/s and activities

The success of the Society is the direct result of the time and passion that our members put into it. If you have any ideas on how to improve the Society then this is the venue to share them.

View the Minutes from last year’s AGM.

Meeting Details:

• Wednesday 28th March; 7:30pm
• Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) – directions

The last formal meeting of the season was presented by

Blue Sky over the Bullring

Christian Cable for his ‘President’s Evening’. The lecture was about the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography.

Christian started by commenting on former methods of storing images using film which was processed in a darkroom and prints or transparencies made which were safe for archival files. With digital images which are stored in a computer and are not as safe Digital images need constant back up because of the possible failure of the hard disc which has an approximate life of five years and the life of DVD’s which last about ten years. Christian advocated using the 3 – 2 – 1 rule which stated that it was best to keep three copies of each photograph with one away from the computer.

Christian followed his introduction with a series of digital photographs of subjects of particular interest to him including:-

• The seaside with images of Blackpool, Morecambe and Plymouth
• Transport showing moving traffic, London Underground stations, Trains and escalators
• The subject ‘Abandoned’ showing derelict buildings, closed shops with old fasciasStreet Art showing graffiti
• The sky with images of clouds and spectacular sunsets
• Food with photographs of peppers and pasta
• A German village in the wine growing area of the Mittel Mosel showing the landscape of vines in winter

Part two of the talk analysed the advantages of digital imaging in which images were captured by a sensor to a memory card then processed in a computer using Photoshop, but rarely printed. This was in complete contrast to film in which all images taken were usually printed and stored.

Sunset over Morecambe Bay

Christian commented on how digital processing was powered by integrated computer circuits. It was interesting to note recent history, in which Gordon Moore, of Intel evolved, in 1965 what has become known as Moore’s Law which states that the number of components in an integrated circuit doubles every two years and this expotential improvement has increased speed of processing, all with components which have become smaller and faster. A good example being the latest iPhone which produces superior image quality over cameras manufactured just a few years ago. As technology advances the cost of cameras have also fallen with the Canon 350D of 2005 costing almost twice as much as the newer Canon 600D of 2011.

The vote of thanks to the President for an informative and most interesting evening was given by Sally Anderson.

Many thanks to Syd for providing this summary.

Here are the slides from my President’s Evening talks along with some links to further reading and software. If you have any corrections or suggestions then please let me know and I shall update these.

Slides

• Part 1 - The Disadvantage of Digital Photography
• Part 2 - Er … You know … Stuff. I like taking pictures of “stuff”
• Part 3 - The Advantage of Digital Photography

References and links for more information

Part 1

• Google Study into hard disk lifespan
• 3-2-1 Backup Rule
• External hard disks at PC World
• Internet Backup Software
  • Backblaze
  • Mozy
  • Carbonite
  • Crashplan
• Windows Backup Software
• Mac Backup Software
  • Carbon Copy Cloner
  • SuperDuper!
  • Time Machine

Part 2

• Moore’s Law
• Flickr Camera Finder
• Light Field Cameras – Lytro Camera
• Photoshop CS3 Content Aware Move Demo
• Retina Display

Christian Cable

We’re coming up to the end of this year’s season of the society and this week’s meeting is a very special one. It is the President’s Evening.

Towards the end of each year the President of the Society takes it upon themselves to entertain us for the evening. Whether this is by bringing in special guest speakers, lecturing about one of their interests or by showcasing their own work; it is completely up to them. The content is almost always a total mystery to everyone until the evening itself.

So for this week, it’ll be my turn to take centre stage to entertain, inform and delight!

Hope you see you there and wish me luck!

Christian

Meeting Details:

• Wednesday 21st March; 7:30pm
• Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) – directions

Morecambe Movie Makers hosted a joint meeting with Lancaster Photographic Society, each presenting a selection of images for the 50:50 evening. For part one the Chairman of Morecambe Graham Isherwood, introduced videos produced by members as follows:-

• ‘Glorious Windermere’ in high definition by Geoff Ducker
• ‘Alex Henshaw and the flight of the Mew Gull’ the story of his pioneering flight to Cape Town and back by Tim Churchill
• ‘Ron’s Chicken Run’ by Ron Wood
• ‘Lest We Forget’ a video produced on a DSLR camera by Peter Parker
• ‘Formula 1 – Fast & Loud’ the story of Silverstone by Dave Wertherley
• ‘A Fisherman’s Tale’ by Roland Ward
• ‘North Light’ showing landscape images of Northern England by Geoff Harrison
• ‘Six Miles out into the Bay’ a tale of shrimp fishing out of Flookburgh by Chris Abram

For part two Christian Cable, President of the Society introduced members whose work was shown as follows:-

• ‘Land of the Morning Calm’ by Chris Thoume. This presentation told the story of a visit to South Korea with images of the architecture of the capital, Seoul and the coastal city of Pusan. Scenes included the local markets and the Korean Grand Prix circuit.
• ‘What we did during our Summer Holidays’ Christian Cable detailed the outing of the Society to Brimham Rocks in Nidderdale, a trip to Liverpool and then images taken at a recent portrait workshop organized by John Aldred.
• ‘A week in Budapest’ This was a Pictures to EXE sequence by Vic & Sheenagh Crumley showing the magnificent architecture of the Hungarian capital.

Votes of thanks were given by Graham Isherwood on behalf of Morecambe Bay Movie Makers and by Christian Cable for Lancaster Photographic Society who thanked Morecambe for a warm welcome, splendid refreshments and for a very entertaining evening.

Morecambe Bay Movie Makers is a group of independent local film-makers with interests and experience in a wide range of film-making techniques, from cine-photography and animation to digital editing and image manipulation. Each year we take turns in hosting a night where we showcase our recent activities to each other. This year it’s the turn of Morecambe to host the evening so this week’s meeting will be held on Monday evening in Morecambe.

Over the past few years as DSLR cameras have found a place within the film and television industry we are finding that more and more that the interests of our two clubs have moved closer together. This promises to be a fun and interested evening featuring presentations by both clubs.

MEETING DETAILS:

• Monday 12th March; 7:30pm
• St. Christopher’s Church Hall, Bare, Morecambe – directions

See you all Monday,

Christian

Lancaster Photographic Society entered the South Lakeland Inter-Club Knockout Competition last Thursday, hosted by Ulverston Camera Club. Six clubs submitted 15 photographs comprising colour prints, mono prints and digitally projected images, and more than 50 members of the clubs attended. Lancaster progressed to the semi final by winning the first round against Barrow, then won through to the final against Holme with a thrilling win over Ulverston. Unfortunately their good run stalled in the final, which Holme won by a total of 410 points to Lancaster’s 399.

This was the third successive time in the final of the competition, but a win still elludes the local photographers, as the two previous occasions were lost to Kendal. Members felt that the standard of their work was the equal of the other clubs, and they now look forward to next year’s competition, which is to be hosted by Lunesdale Camera Club.