The 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

The 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

The second Open Print competition of the season was judged on 21st December by Ian Whiston (DPAGB, EFIAP/p, FBPE, EPSA, Hon LCPU) from Crewe Photographic Society. Ian provided a brief and concise critique of each image, often commenting on the sharpness and point of focus. As it was close to Christmas, he was also rather generous with his scoring, holding

The first Set Subject competition of the season was judged on 16th Nov by Martin Pickles of North Cheshire Photographic Society. The competition was in the form of a Knock-Out and Martin gradually whittled down the entry in a series of rounds, explaining why each image was eliminated. By the last round, with only 5 images remaining, Martin then chose

The first Open PDI competition of the season was judged on 19th Oct by Keith Barber (FIScT, CPAGB, LRPS) of Swinton & District PS. There was quite a large entry of 99 images to get through on the night. The top scoring images are listed below. The featured image for this competition is Late Afternoon Perch Rock by Margaret Keane,

The first Open Print competition of the season was judged on 28th Sep by Tillman Kleinhans (ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB BPE5* Hon LCPU) from St Helens Camera Club. Tillman made some interesting points about the difference between the ‘best’ image and the judge’s favourite, along with some detailed comments such as avoiding over-sharpening or over-enlarging images. The top scoring images are

The third and final Open Print competition of the season was judged on 18th May by Robert Millin (MFIAP, FBPE, EFIAP/d3, GPU ZEUS) from Wigan 10 PS. He had decided to judge on the night and spent some time studying the images before the start. His comments were concise with lots of advice on how the lower scoring ones could

The 3rd Set Subject Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 20th April by Graham Currey, familiar to many LSAPS members from his character photo shoots. The subject was Power and there was a large entry of over 100 Prints and PDI’s with a wide interpretation of the subject. This led to a long evening finishing after 10pm. The

The 3rd Open Digital Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 16th March by Adrian Hendley (CPAGB) of Ilkley Camera Club. Adrian provided careful and considered feedback on each image, but pointed out several times that it was up to the photographer how they presented their image – something that is worth remembering. The top scoring images are listed

The 2nd Set Subject Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 16th February by Tom Richardson (ARPS, EFIAP/p, ABPE, DPAGB) from Poulton Photographic Society. The subject was Mono, and there was a bumper entry with 126 images (print and PDI) to view. Tom kept his comments necessarily brief, but gave some good advice, particularly about proofing different mono image