Following our photoshoot with Graham Currey on 1st August, he kindly agreed to judge and provide feedback on a selection of images. To ensure a good distribution of images, each photographer was restricted to one image per character, though there was some slight relaxation of that rule. The images are shown below, grouped by character, with Graham’s top placed images

For the final walk of the summer season we meet by St Annes Pier. As you can see from the group photograph, the storm clouds were gathering. The rain kept away until about quarter to nine, but there was only a tiny bit of colour in the sunset. So, it was a matter of capturing the cloud formations, patterns in the

On Sunday 1st August, a group of 11 LSAPS photographers enjoyed another photoshoot with Graham Currey, starting early in the morning at Lytham Jetty, then moving on to Lytham Hall for the rest of the day.  As usual, Graham arrived with a number of different outfits ranging from an 18th century Poldark type character, through Gandalf the wizard to a

On the evening of Thursday 22nd July, a group of LSAPS members attended a photo walk to Cleveleys promenade, which started on the promenade overlooking Mary’s Shell. The beach was still busy with people taking full advantage of the sunny, hot weather. With the tide out we took the opportunity to photograph ‘The Sea Orge’, which is normally covered at

With the announcement of Photoshow results, we also have the annual Print and Digital Photographer Of The Year awards. First, an explanation of how these are calculated. Points are awarded for performance in each of the In-Season competitions, with 5 pts for coming first (based in the combined score of both images entered), 4pts for second etc. Points are also

Photoshow results were announced on Thursday 15th July, when we had the pleasure of inviting our two judges to provide comment on the images they had selected for Awards. The Print competition was judged by Rod Whelans (MPAGB, MFIAP, FRPS, FIPF) from Dumfries Camera Club, whilst the Digital competition was judged by Pauric McGroder (ARPS, AIPPVA, FIPF) from Dublin Camera

The first Photo Walk of 2021 took place on Thursday evening 8th July. It was necessary to change the location at short notice, so we visited Fairhaven Lake rather than Haslam Park, Preston. Paddle Boarders were taking advantage of the calm conditions on the water whilst our group of 18 stayed on the land seeking out photographic opportunities. After 15

The 2021 L&CPU Individual Competition was judged over the weekend of 8th May, with 3 judges each awarding up to 5 marks for each image. Under normal Exhibition rules, a score of 12pts would be considered an Acceptance. 11 LSAPS Photographers entered, and of these, 8 achieved a score of 12 and above with at least 1 image – Carol