Nature and Illustrative Portfolio Night

This week will be the final of our portfolio nights of the year.

We’ll be holding another lively group discussion to review the Nature and Illustrative 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.

Meeting Details:

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

 

South Lakeland Knockout Competition

This week we’ve got a change from our normal meeting because we shall be guests of Ulverston Photographic Society.

Ulverston are playing host to the “South Lakeland Knockout Competition”.

This is an exciting interclub knockout competition where societies battle it out against each other with a portfolio of five colour prints, five monochrome prints and five projected images each. Each society provides two judges who will score the other societies images. As you may recall Lancaster narrowly missed out on the top prize last year due to some stunning images from our friends over in Kendal Photographic Society.

The competition takes place on Thursday evening, 7:30pm prompt at

Parish Centre,
Church Walk,
Ulverston

A few members are sharing cars from Lancaster to the event. If you would like to join us then we will be meeting outside 134 Coulston Road in Lancaster at 6pm. Spare cars will be left on the University of Cumbria car park.

Because of the competition there’s no meeting this Wednesday, the next meeting in Lancaster will be on the 7th of March.

MEETING DETAILS:

  • Thursday 1st March; 7:30pm
  • Parish Centre, Church Walk, Ulverston

Stay tuned for results and I’ll get them on the site as soon as I hear them.

Christian

Annual Projected Image Competition – Round Up

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

The annual projected image competition was judged by John Fletcher C.A.P.G.B. from Longridge. John is a a member of Ribblesdale Camera Club and specializes in wild life and natural history images.

Results of the competition as follows:-

Digital Projected images – Colour

Highly Commended

  1. ‘Let me see your war face’ – John Aldred
  2. ‘Looking down on you’ – Sally Anderson
  3. ‘Water Seller’ – Nick Dagger
  4. ‘Bistort & Caterpillar’ and ‘Watching you!’ both by Allan Hartley

Commended

  1. ‘Night in the Park’ and ‘Fire in the Sky’ both by John Aldred
  2. ‘Evening Contemplation’ – Sally Anderson
  3. ’Storm Sky over the Bay’ and ‘Woodland Walk’ both by Vic Crumley
  4. ‘Happy 30th Birthday’ – Nick Dagger
  5. ‘Hong Kong Harbour’ – Allan Hartley
  6. ‘Cold as Stone’ – ‘Bethruthan Steps, Cornwall’ and Mullion Church interior’ all by David Moorhouse
  7. ‘Puffin’ – Ruth Wood

Winner of the best image in the colour section was John Aldred for his photograph ‘Let me see your war face’

Digital Projected Images – Monochrome

Highly Commended

  1. ‘Sand patterns’ – Sally Anderson
  2. ‘Going up!’ – Nick Dagger
  3. ‘The Tree’ – Allan Hartley
  4. ’Contemplation’ – Martin Rathbone

Commended

  1. ‘Dawn by the River’ – John Aldred
  2. ‘St. Paul’s & St. Martin’s Timber Church’ – Sally Anderson
  3. ‘Dahlia in rain’ – ‘In need of repair’ and ‘Building Shapes’ all by Sheenagh Crumley
  4. ‘House on the Hill’ – Vic Crumley
  5. ‘Wedding car 1915 style’ – Syd Cumbus
  6. ’But who got the Holeshot?’ and ‘Through the windscreen’ both by Mandy Foreman
  7. ’Schreckhorn’ and ‘True Grit’ ‘both by Allan Hartley
  8. ‘Secret Garden’ and ‘Atlantic Teeth’ both by David Moorhouse
  9. ‘Sing your heart out’ – Martin Rathbone

Winner of the best image in the monochrome section was Allan Hartley for his photograph of ’The Tree’

A warm vote of thanks to the judge was proposed by the President, Christian Cable.

Annual Projected Image Competition

This week is the result of our annual projected image competition.

This is our main projected image competition of the year and showcases some of the very best of the Society’s work. The points awarded from this and the other competitions throughout the year will go towards our annual prize giving.

In other news I am delighted to inform you that we faced and won against some stiff competition in our Digital Projection Battle with Morecambe Camera Club. I don’t have the full results but as soon as I do I shall post them on the site. Well done to everyone who took part, you did us proud.

Meeting Details:

  • Wednesday 22nd February; 7:30pm
  • Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) – directions

See you all Wednesday,

Christian

Digital Projection Battle with Morecambe Camera Club

This week we are visiting our colleagues from Morecambe Camera Club for an interclub battle of projected images. As such this meeting will take place on Thursday rather than our normal Wednesday. Each club will present a selection of some of their best images to be pitted against each other. As well as being a friendly competition this evening serves as a good way to meet our fellow photographers from Morecambe.

Our judge for the competition will be John Jennings ARPS.

Meeting Details:

  • Thursday 16th February; 7:30pm
  • Church of the Ascension; Lancaster Road, Torrisholme, Lancashire, LA4 6RH – directions

Annual Print Competition – Results

Let the Judging Begin  © John Aldred

Let the Judging Begin © John Aldred

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

The President, Christian Cable introduced Jeremy Malley-Smith L.R.P.S , a member of Wigan Photographic Society to judge the Annual Print Competition.

Results as follows:-

Colour Prints – Highly Commended

  1. ‘Poppy field in Majorca’ – Ron Atkinson
  2. ‘Lancaster Fireworks’ – Sheenagh Crumley

Colour Prints – Commended

  1. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ – Sheenagh Crumley
  2. ‘An Avenue of Oaks in Spring’ – Syd Cumbus
  3. ‘Burg-Al-Kalifa Tower, Dubai’ and ‘Damsel Fly’ both by Allan Hartley

Monochrome Prints – Highly Commended

  1. ‘Ice bound at Haverbreaks’ – Syd Cumbus
  2. ‘Arches’ and ‘Dandelion Clock’ both by Allan Hartley

Monochrome Prints – Commended

  1. ‘Capital Clock’ – Vic Crumley
  2. ‘Eskotran No. 407, Bilbao’ – Syd Cumbus

Awards

Best Colour Print in the Competition
‘Mohamed, Frankincense Trader’ – Allan Hartley
Best Landscape Print in the Competition
‘Slater’s Bridge’ – David Moorhouse
Best Monochrome Print in the Competition
‘Teasels in the Sun’ – Sheenagh Crumley
Best Runner-up Print (Colour or Monochrome) in the Competition
‘Teasels in the Sun’ – Sheenagh Crumley

The vote of thanks was proposed by Christian Cable.

Annual Print Competition

This week is the result of our annual print competition.

This is our main print competition of the year and showcases some of the very best of the Society’s work. We are joined by Jeremy Malley-Smith from Wigan Photographic Society who will be our guest judge for the evening. The points awarded from this and the other competitions throughout the year will go towards our annual prize giving.

Reminder to Members

This week is the entry deadline for the Annual Projected Image Competition.

Christian will be collecting your usb sticks of images at the meeting. You can enter up to 6 images. Three colour and three monochrome images. Images may be of any subject. Images can be from previous monthly competitions but not from previous annual competitions. View our Competition Rules.

Meeting Details:

  • Wednesday 8th February; 7:30pm
  • Lancaster Methodist Church (aka Greaves Methodist Church) – directions

An Evening of Photographic Entertainment and Bargains – Round Up

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

The Society meeting this week was divided into two parts, with presentations by two members.

Chris Thoume gave a talk entitled ‘Land of the Morning Calm’ describing his recent visit to South Korea. The modernistic architecture of the capital city, Seoul was shown along with the vibrant markets selling Asian specialities and great varieties of fish. Photographs of the monsoon rains which are frequent in Seoul confirmed why the country is so verdant with forests and national parks. A visit was made to the second city of the country, Pusan, some 400 miles south of the capital. Here we saw the port facilities, the fisherman’s village and images of some of the 17 miles of bridges connecting the islands and forming a coastal highway. A call was made at a Folk Village where Chris showed images of local sculptures. Pusan was also the home of the Korean Film Festival and the Grand Prix Circuit.

David Moorhouse provided the second presentation entitled ‘Images from the River Lune’. David is a member of the Lancaster Anglers Association, a group of some 250 members who fish from the Crook of Lune to the confluence of the River Wenning at Aughton in a season beginning on February 1st and ending on October 31st each year. He spoke of the salmon hatchery at Sedbergh and how some 100,000 eggs are stripped every year. Of the 600 or so salmon caught each season most are returned to the river to aid conservation. The brief talk was followed by an audio-visual  presentation showing the beauty of the Lune in all seasons and included images of some of the Atlantic Salmon caught in past years.

Part two of the evening was devoted to a Bring & Buy Sale of photographic equipment with Chris Thoume acting as auctioneer. Equipment offered for sale included many film cameras, filters, flash guns, tripods and redundant holdalls. The proceeds of the sale benefited the Society.

The vote of thanks to Chris and David was proposed by the President, Christian Cable.

An Evening of Photographic Entertainment and Bargains

Due to a last minute cancellation we shall be have a somewhat different meeting this week to that in the Programme.

This week we’ll open with a selection of members’s talks followed by an equipment auction in aid of the Society.

If you have any old photographic equipment gathering dust that you’d like to see find a new home then please bring it along. For anyone else this looks to be an evening of photographic entertainment and bargains.

50 Years in Lancaster Photographic Society – a Celebration

Recently the Society gathered to celebrate the many years of service of Ruth Piearce and Syd Cumbus. To make the occasion Vic Crumley penned the following column for the Lancaster Guardian.

Syd Cumbus and Ruth Piearce

Syd Cumbus and Ruth Piearce

This evening’s event was designed as an occasion to mark the long association with the Society of its two most senior members, Mr Syd Cumbus and Mrs Ruth Piearce, who have been members for more than 50 years. To mark the occasion, Syd Cumbus provided a talk on his experiences of the changes in photography during these years. After reflecting briefly on the many different venues in which the Society has met, he gave a review of the cameras he had used, many of which were on display. These ranged from a simple box camera, through a number of rangefinder and SLR film cameras such as Leica and Minolta, to the current digital models. He also commented on his experience of a wide range of film, confessed a long-standing preference for Agfa products, and showed slides to demonstrate the variable keeping properties of different films.

The main part of Syd’s talk comprised a slide presentation focusing on his home city of Lancaster. After showing a number of images of old Lancaster, Syd demonstrated his enthusiasm for his home city with an illustrated tour of Lancaster, concentrating on the many changes that he has seen and photographed over the years, commenting particularly on the loss during the early 1970s of St Nicholas Street, which he believed t be of great character.

Thanking Syd for his talk, vice-president Sally Anderson commented that his pictures would serve as an inspiration to other members in their search for worthy subjects for photography. At the end of the evening president Christian Cable presented Life Membership awards to Syd and to Ruth, both former presidents of the Society, to mark their contribution to its work over 50 years.