Lytham St. Annes Photographic Society
Imagination in Imagery
The 2022 5-Way Battle was held on Thursday 10th November, hosted by Poulton PS. The competition involves LSAPS, Poulton, Bispham, Garstang and North Fylde, with 15 images being entered from each club. Judge for the evening was Nick Hilton (EFIAP, DPAGB, BPE5) from Southport. Nick provided a good detailed critique of each image and explained why he considered each image
Read moreI had organised two trips to this location covering Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November. Due to a weather forecast of persistent rain on the Sunday morning, which did materialise, I cancelled the Sunday walk. This was so disappointing particularly as we had a clear blue sky on Saturday. On Saturday morning 14 members met in the car park before walking down
Read moreThe 1st Open Digital Competition of the 2022/3 season was judged on 20th October by James Hardy (CPAGB, LRPS, AFIAP) from Chorley Photographic Society. James is also president of the L&CPU. With almost 100 images to judge it was a long night, but James approached the judging with humour. In general he was looking for images that told some sort
Read moreThe 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
Read moreThirteen LSAPS members met up for a 10am start at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley. Chorley Council has published leaflets covering 4 walks around the country park. Using some of those directions I planned a short walk around the lake, on to the waterfall, then a short distance along the River Yarrow before returning to our cars at 12.30pm. It
Read moreWe met up in High Street car park Garstang. Our band of 10 first set out to the flood defence barrier on the River Wyre. A splash in the river drew our attention to a group of lads jumping into the river on this warm, still evening. We retraced our steps back to the car park and continued on the
Read moreStanley Park was the venue for the walk on Thursday evening 21st July. The weather was fine but overcast as eight of us made our way to the Italian Gardens with its display of colourful flowers surrounding the water fountain. The layout of the Italian Garden, with paths pointing in all directions, encouraged us to spread out taking images of
Read moreWith the announcement of Photoshow results, we can also announce 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 (Open and Set Subject), with 5 pts for coming first, based on the combined score of both images entered, 4pts for
Read morePhotoshow results were announced on Thursday 14th 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 Howard Tate (MA, ARPS, AFIAP, HonPAGB) from Pontefract Camera Club, whilst the Digital competition was judged by John Tilsley (ARPS, DPAGB, APAGB) from Dorchester Camera
Read moreThe latest photo walk, to Fleetwood Wrecks, took place on Thursday evening 7th July. On arrival it was overcast but by the time we’d walked from Fleetwood Marsh Nature Park the clouds had parted to reveal the sun and patches of blue sky. The low evening sunlight really brought out the textures on the wrecks. We took the opportunity to experiment
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