The 2nd Open Print competition of the season was judged on 23rd January by James Hardy (CPAGB, LRPS, AFIAP, Hon LCPU) from Chorley Photographic Society. With 90 images to get through it was quite a long night as James provided good comments on each image, including recommendations on cropping out unnecessary sky and foreground areas and not over-enlarging wildlife images

The 2nd Open Print competition of the season was judged on 9th January by Nick Berentzen (CPAGB, BPE3) from South Manchester Camera Club. Nick worked his way steadily through the images providing mostly positive comments. He stated that he thought the standards were high, resulting in a large number of images being held back, which then required some adjustment of

The 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

The 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

The 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

This year’s President’s Challenge on the subject of minimalism was held on 6th June. 29 members entered an image into the competition. After an initial run through all the images, club members were invited to vote on their favourite images. Carol then provided some critique of each image. After the break, Carol announced her own top three images, then the

The 3rd Open Print competition of the season was judged on 17th May by Gordon Jenkins HonPAGB, Hon Life Vice-President of the PAGB. Gordon has been involved in club photography for over 40 years and is a past president of both the L&CPU and PAGB. He provided constructive feedback with a humorous approach and commented on the high standard of

The 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

The 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