Club Notices

In advance of the 77th AGM on 9th July, the supporting documents are now available to view. Please login and the document link is in the What’s On This Month Table against the  AGM meeting.

Now that the results of the L&CPU Individual Competition are available, they can be fed into the overall Photographer Of The Year League Tables. There was no reason to present these table previously, as they only contained Season results, so placings were identical to the Season tables.

The Tables for Print and Digital Photographer of the Year (POTY and DOTY) can be found under the Competitions top menu item. There is also a link under the Website Updates section of the Members Home Page. You must Login to the website to access the tables.

As a reminder, the rules for POTY and DOTY are available >>here<<. Note that if an image is entered more than once across Season, L&CPU and Photoshow, only the best result will count towards a given Award. Your personal Scorecard will show the contribution of each competition result. This process of taking the ‘best’ result means that contributions from Season and L&CPU competitions cannot be finalised until Photoshow results are also available – only then can the ‘best’ contribution be calculated for a given image.

The L&CPU are introducing a new awards scheme for Print Portfolios, that is open to any LSAPS photographer. A portfolio of prints can consist of between 4 and 20 prints that must follow a cohesive theme and be presented in a similar style. There is no requirement for a hanging plan, though the portfolio may be supported by a short statement of intent. On entry, the portfolio will initially be assessed as a complete body of work and may be rejected if it is not considered to form a cohesive group of images. However once the portfolio has been accepted, the images are scored individually by a panel of 5 judges, each scoring between 2 and 5 – with a 2 indicating some technical issues, and a 5 indicating a very good club print. The level of award achieved will be based on the number of prints entered and the average score – Level 1 (Credit) being for 4 prints averaging 15, up to Level 10 (Unobtainium) for 20 prints averaging 24.

The first assessment will take place on Sunday 15th of November 2026 at St Marys Parish Centre Social Club, Chorley – all entrants must attend to deliver and collect their prints. Registration and Entry is via the L&CPU Portal.

Unfortunately there is currently no link to more information on the L&CPU website, so anyone who is interested should speak to Carol Watson who has some paperwork.