Lytham St. Annes Photographic Society
Imagination in Imagery
The annual Seaside Invitation competition against Southport PS was held on Monday 9th December, hosted by Southport. The competition was judged by Tilman Kleinhans (ARPS, EFIAP/g, DPAGB, BPE5*, Hon LCPU) from St Helens Photographic Society. A few LSAPS members attended on the night and were rewarded with a good selection of images to view, as well as mince pies and
Read moreThe 1st Set Subject competition of the season was judged on 21st October by Colin Douglas, who returned just a week after judging the 4-Way Battle. Colin had a difficult task of separating 73 variations of beach scenes, however he managed to run through all the images in the first half, then judged the fairly large number of held back
Read moreThe annual L&CPU Knock-Out competition was held on 16th November at the Elmbank Conference Centre in Eccles, judged by Mike Sharples (ARPS, MPAGB) from Smethwick PS in the Midlands Federation. Each club entered 8 images, however as 35 clubs took part, the number of images entered into the judging was reduced to just 5 images per club, giving 175 images
Read moreThe 2024 4-Way Battle was held on Thursday 15th November, hosted by LSAPS and judged by Colin Douglas (ARPS, AFIAP, DPAGB, BPE4). There was a good attendance from the four clubs – LSAPS, Poulton, Garstang and North Fylde. As Colin judged each image, the author and club were announced for those scoring 18 or above. By the half-way point it
Read moreThe 1st Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 17th October by Dave Butler (MFIAP MPSA2 ARPS BPE5 Hon LCPU) from Wigan 10 Photographic Society. Dave used a good range of scores with only relatively ew images receiving the highest marks. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Waiting For Love
Read moreThe 1st Open Print competition of the season was judged on 26th September by Will Stead (EFIAP, CPAGB) from Chorley Photographic Society. Will provided some constructive comments about bright highlights, cropping to improve composition and providing some focal point for leading lines. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Heading To Port by
Read moreOur Annual Awards were presented on the first night of the new season on 5th September, with a few follow-up awards the following week. Awards were gained in both the Season long competitions and in our annual Photoshow exhibition. The biggest winner was our own President Carol Watson, who won both the Print and Digital Photographer Of The Year, in
Read moreLSAPS 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 Paul Dunmall (CPAGB, QCP)
Read moreAfter a lot of work by Photoshow organiser Andy Ogilvie and a team of LSAPS members on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, our annual Photoshow opened on Saturday 3rd August. A few notable guests were in attendance for the opening – Mayor of the Fylde Karen Henshaw, her Consort Alderman Howard Henshaw, President of the L&CPU Rob Hockney and our
Read moreFollowing the announcement of the Photoshow results we are able to work out our Print and Digital Photographers of the Year for the 2023/4 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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