2025 Photoshow – Public Vote

At this year’s Photoshow, the public were asked to vote for their favourite image. Almost 1000 votes were cast and the winner was Peter Darby’s Rufus The Baby Orang Utan. Double congratulations go to Peter as his Kestrel With A mouse was in  a close second place. The prints will be on display until the end of September at Artisan

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Registration for Charlie Waite Talk

Please register before Sep 19th. On Thursday 30th October, the club will welcome a very special guest speaker – Landscape Photographer Charlie Waite. Charlie is one of the world’s leading landscape photographers, renowned for his painterly approach to composition and light. With a career spanning over four decades, he has held major solo exhibitions internationally and published numerous acclaimed books,

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Photoshow 2025 – Awards Galleries

LSAPS Photoshow is held over two weeks during August each year and showcases over 600 Print and Digital images produced by our club members. The show is also a competition split across 5 categories –  Mono, Nature, Open, People and Scapes in both the Print and PDI sections.  This year the Print competition was judged by Gordon Jenkins (HonPAGB, Hon

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Photoshow 2025 Opening Event

Photoshow opened on Saturday 2nd August and our opening event was a great success. In addition to a large number of our own members attending, we were pleased to welcome a number of local and L&CPU dignitaries. From the local area we welcomed the Mayor of the Fylde Frank Andrews and his wife Mayoress Ann Andrews, the Mayor of St

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2024/25 Photographer Of The Year

Following the announcement of the Photoshow results we are able to work out our Print and Digital Photographers of the Year for the 2024/5 season. Points are awarded for In-Season competitions, Photoshow and the L&CPU Individual competitions as follows: In-Season competitions: The two image scores in each competition are combined to find the positions (Open and Set Subject). Points are

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Photoshow 2025 Results

The 2025 Photoshow results were announced on Thursday 10th July with a slideshow of the awarded images. The judge for the Prints was Gordon Jenkins (HonPAGB, Hon Life Vice-President of the PAGB), whilst the PDI’s were judged by Ann Francis (FIPF, EFIAP/g) from Cork Camera Group. There were 342 Prints and 322 PDIs submitted by 49 LSAPS members. A total

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2025-26 Season Competitions

As previously advised we will be running a single league for Prints, and a single league for PDIs next season. We will then split those leagues in two for the following seasons, with the intent to have around 40% of the participating members in the upper league in each discipline. The league positions will be determined from Three Open and

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2025 North Cheshire Challenge

The 2025 North Cheshire Challenge was held on Saturday 5th June, judged by Erica Oram. The format is a knock-out club competition, with each club entering 5 images. In a knock-out, about 50% of the images are knocked out in a series of round until only a handful remain, at which point the judge chooses an overall winner. Scores are

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2025 President’s Challenge

The President’s Challenge this year was on the subject of Complementary Colours, and it was judged on 29th May. There was only a small entry of 16 images this year. After an initial run through, club members were invited to vote on their favourite images. Carol then provided some critique and announced her top three places, then the results of

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2025 Dublin Inter-Club Competition

The inter-Club competition against Dublin CC was held on Tuesday 20th May on Zoom, this year hosted by LSAPS. The format involved 30 images from each club, all by different members in an open competition. The judge for the competition was Ralph Snook (ARPS, DPAGB, EFIAP/s) from Bristol PS. By the end of the first half, Dublin had opened up

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