The Seaside Invitation competition against Southport PS was held on Thursday 9th December, hosted by LSAPS. The competition was judged by Adrian Lines (MPAGB, AFBPE, AFIAP) who provided a number of feedback points such as cropping to either give space to the subject or cropping close to create some tension, and attention to small points of detail like highlights, distracting

The 2021 L&CPU Knock-Out competition was held on Saturday13th November, judged by John Cartlidge APAGB, EFIAP/p, BPE5* from the Midland Counties Photographic Federation. 41 clubs entered, with 4 images from each club. Images are progressively knocked out in a series of rounds, until only a handful are left, at which point the judge selects his overall winner. Scores are awarded

The 2021 Novice Cup took place on Sunday 10th October, the first L&CPU print competition since March 2020! 21 Clubs took part and LSAPS did very well in the Mono Section, finishing in joint 1st place alongside South Manchester CC. Congratulations to Peter Cotton who received a Commended for his print “Waiting His Turn“. Unfortunately we didn’t do so well

On Thursday 17th June we held an invitation competition against Bury PS. This promised to be a close fought competition as Bury had finished very close to LSAPS in the L&CPU inter-club competition. The competition was hosted by Bury and judged by Joe Houghton from Dublin Camera Club, who stepped in at the last minute when the previous judge became

Judging of the 2021 L&CPU Club Print Championship took place on Saturday 27th March. Due to Covid restrictions this was a postal A4 print competition and judging was performed by Phil and Gwen Charnock who were sent the prints in advance, which they then scored jointly out of 20. The field was much smaller than in the PDI competition, with

Judging of the 2021 L&CPU Club PDI Championship took place on Saturday 20th March. Due to Covid restrictions the judging was performed in advance by Phil and Gwen Charnock who were given the images for review which they then scored jointly out of 20. This is different to normal years where there are three judges who only see the images

LSAPS scored a success at this year’s Seaside Invitation against Southport, judged by Colin Douglas on Monday 7th December.  Due to COVID, this year’s competition was digital only, and involved just 20 images from each club, all by different members. Colin ran through all the images, holding back a number to score at the end.  Half way through and LSAPS

The L&CPU Digital Knock Out was held on Saturday evening. This is a competition for new work, meaning that images entered into any previous L&CPU competition are not allowed. There was a large entry this year from 41 Clubs, compared to only 30 last year. As a consequence only 4 images per Club were used out of the 8 entered.

The annual 5-Way Battle between LSAPS, Bispham, Garstang, North Fylde and Poulton was held via Zoom on the 12th November, with a bumper turnout of over 100 attendees from the five clubs. The judge for the competition was Jane Lines from Chorley PS. Jane’s comments were well paced and to the point, giving feedback on the aspects she liked in