Lytham St. Annes Photographic Society
Imagination in Imagery
The President’s Challenge was due to take place on 30th May, however we have been notified that due to maintenance work at the Hall, we will not be able to meet on that evening. Therefore the Presidents Challenge will be moved to the 6th June, and will follow the Hand-In for Photoshow. The aim will be to sort out the
Read moreThe inter-Club competition against Dublin CC was held on Tuesday 30th April on Zoom, hosted by Dublin. The competition originated when one of the Dublin members was asked to judge our Photoshow 3 years ago, and consists of 25 images from each club, all by different members. The judge for the competition was Rory O’Connor (FIPF, AFIAP) from the Blarney Photography
Read moreThe third Set Subject Competition on the subject of Lytham St Annes Borough was held on 18th April, judged by Nicki Greenwood from North Fylde PS. With over 90 images to get through, Nicki’s comments were necessarily brief, however the evening moved through at a good pace and finished on time. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured
Read moreThe Lightroom Virtual Summit is a series of 45 on-line Lightroom tutorials presented by 15 different Lightroom experts. The tutorials will be released between 20th and 24th May, and each tutorial will be free to view for 48 hours after its release. That means you can spend a solid 5 days becoming a Lightroom expert! The full set of tutorials
Read moreThe delayed 2nd Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 4th April by Eddie Leach (DPAGB) from Oldham PS. Eddie raised a distinction between images that were suitable for competition and those that were primarily a record for the photographer’s own personal use. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Redshank
Read moreThe 3rd Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 21st March by Steve Proctor (EPAGB, BPE5, PPSA) from Chorley PS. Steve spent a bit of extra time commenting on the Beginners section which meant it was quite a long night with a total of 89 entries to get through. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured
Read moreThe annual L&CPU Club competition was held on the 2nd and 3rd of March. The PDI competition involves 24 images from each club – 16 in Open (Colour or Mono) and 8 in Nature, whilst the Print Competition again involves 24 images, but this time 8 in Open Colour, 8 in Mono and 8 in Nature. Each image is judged
Read moreJust a reminder that the President’s challenge will be taking place on 30th May 2024. It will be a digital competition and members can submit just one entry. The theme for the competition is “Minimalism”. Images must be taken between Oct 2023 and the hand-in date of 16th May and must be from a single capture. HDR, stitched or stacked images are allowed
Read moreThe second Set Subject Competition – a Triptych Print competition – was held on 15th Feb, judged by John Riley from Tyldesley, Manchester. John is a semi-retired freelance photographer who provided quite short, but entertaining comments on the entries. One particular theme was that he was looking at how the images fitted together and even small details like the alignment
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