Old Miser by Carol Watson

The annual L&CPU Club Print competition was held on Sunday 5th March at the Elm Bank Conference Centre in Eccles. The Print competition involves 24 images from each club – 8 in Open Colour, 8 in Mono and 8 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score of 15pts. Only 20 clubs competed in the Print competition, and Lytham placed 9th overall with a score of 286pts. The competition was won by Chorley with a total score of 325pts.

Congratulations to Carol Watson whose Old Miser scored a maximum 15pts. Also 9 other LSAPS photographers had images scoring 12pts or above – Anthony Hull, Bill Breckenridge, Brian Clark, David Broughton, Gordon Watson, Kuli Virdee, Mary Kirkby, Pat Vice and Peter Darby.

The catalogue of winning images can be viewed >>>Here<<<

LSAPS Image Scores

Dominant Female Tree Frog by Sheila Giles

The annual L&CPU Club PDI competition was held on Saturday 4th March at St Mary’s Parish Social Club in Chorley. The PDI competition involves 24 images from each club – 16 in Open (Colour or Mono) and 8 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score 15pts. LSAPS placed in 13th position out of 36 clubs, with a total score of 277pts. The competition was won by Oldham PS, with a total score of 310pts.

LSAPS had 12 images that achieved a score of 12 pts or above, by 8 different photographers – Brian Clark, Carol Watson, Chris Round, Gordon Watson, Graham Barker, Mary Kirkby, Mike Halstead and Sheila Giles. Several images scored 13, including Dominant Female Tree Frog by Sheila Giles.

The catalogue of winning images can be viewed >>>Here<<<

LSAPS Image Scores

The annual Seaside Invitation competition against Southport PS was held on Monday 12th December, hosted by Southport. The competition was judged by Robert Millin (MFIAP, FBPE, EFIAP/d2, MPSA, SPSA) who gave a quick but concise judging of each image.

LSAPS were trailing by 11 points after the first Print round, and although we finished ahead in the PDI competition this was not enough to overtake Southport who emerged as overall winners by 5pts. This is only a small margin given the overall scores of 678pts for Southport and 673pts for LSAPS.

Congratulations in particular to Mary Kirkby whose Brave Smile scored 20pts and was judged the best PDI on the night. Also to Gordon Watson who scored 20pts in both the Print and PDI competitions with Catwoman and Father Brown and to Graham Barker who scored 20pts in the PDI competition with Mickelden From Lingmoor Fell.

A Brave Smile By Mary Kirkby

LSAPS Scores

Fountains Abbey Undercroft by Stuart Cahill

The 2022 Bob Robinson Trophy (previously Novice Cup) was held on Sunday 9th October as part of the L&CPU Big Day at Leigh Spinners Mill. This is an A4 print competition for club photographers who do not hold any accreditations, consisting of 6 colour and 6 mono prints, all by different authors.

17 Clubs submitted a full entry and LSAPS came 12th in Mono and a very creditable 2nd  in Colour for an overall position of equal 5th. The competition was won by Chorley, who placed 1st in both categories.

Congratulations to Stuart Cahill who received a Commended award for his print “Fountains Abbey Undercroft “.

Father Brown By Gordon Watson

The North Cheshire Challenge is organised by the North Cheshire Photographic Society and usually consists of two competitions held over a weekend – an interclub print competition and an interclub Digital Knock-out competition. The latter took place on Friday night on Zoom, judged by Terry Donnelly.

In a knock-out competition, about half the images are removed in each round until at round 5 only a few remain and the judge chooses their overall winner. Points are then awarded for the round which an image reaches – 1pt for the first round, 2 pts for the second etc.

Those of us that Zoomed in were treated to a really high standard of images from the 21 Clubs taking part. Terry did a great job judging the competition and provided some excellent and detailed critique. LSAPS finished in a very commendable 5th place with a score of 14pts – congratulations to Kuli Virdee and Gordon Watson whose images reached the 4th round. Southport PS and Wigan 10 shared the top spot on 18pts and Trevor Davenport of Southport had the top image of the night.

Unfortunately there were insufficient entries from the clubs to run the print competition.

Neighbourhood Watch by Kuli Virdee

The annual L&CPU Club Print competition was held on Sunday 3rd April at the Elm Bank Conference Centre in Eccles. The Print competition involves 18 images from each club – 6 in Open Colour, 6 in Mono and 6 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score of 15pts. Only 15 clubs competed in the Print competition, and Lytham placed 5th in Colour, 5th in the Mono and 8th in Nature, putting us in 6th place overall with a score of 294pts. The competition was won by Wigan 10 with a total score of 324pts.

Congratulations to Kuli Virdee whose Neighbourhood Watch scored a maximum 15pts in Mono, and also to Kuli (again), Carol Watson, Gordon Watson and Andy Dickson who all had images that scored 14pts.

LSAPS Image Scores

The Hurdlers By Brian Clark

The annual L&CPU Club PDI competition was held on Saturday 2nd April at the Elm Bank Conference Centre in Eccles. The PDI competition involves 18 images from each club – 12 in Open (Colour or Mono) and 6 in Nature. Each image is judged by 3 judges, awarding a maximum score 15pts. After the Open competition, LSAPS were lying in 7th equal position with 199pts, but dropped back to 12th equal after the Nature round with a total of 295pts. The competition was won by Chorley PS, with a total score of 317pts.

The scoring was relatively generous, and although none of the LSAPS images achieved a top score of 15pts, there were a number which scored a very creditable 14pts.

Congratulations to Brian Clark, Carol Watson, Gordon Watson, Justin Clayton and Kuli Virdee who all had images scoring 14pts in the Open Competition, and to Anthony Hull and Bill Breckenridge who had images scoring 14pts in the Nature Competition.

LSAPS Image Scores

Kingfisher With Catch By Kuli Virdee

On Tuesday 25th January LSAPS took part in an inter-club competition against Dublin Camera Club. This competition followed on from last year’s Photoshow PDI competition, which was judged by Dublin club member Pauric McGroder.  Pauric thought that LSAPS would be a good match for Dublin, so we agreed to hold a competition. The format was for 30 images, including between 5 and 10 Mono and Nature images, with no club member being represented more than twice.

The judge was Ann Francis (FIPF, EFIAP/g) from Cork Camera Group, and after a close competition, Dublin were the narrow winners with a score of 486pts against 483pts for LSAPS.

LSAPS scores and images are shown below. Congratulations to Kuli Virdee whose Kingfisher With Catch was the highest placed LSAPS image with a score of 19.