Imagination in Imagery
The Society is working in partnership with Fylde Borough Council on a photographic competition to celebrate the start of the National Lottery Heritage Funded Fairhaven Lake restoration project. As part of this, a few members of the society helped run a photography workshop aimed at encouraging people to get their cameras out of Auto mode and start to explore the
Read moreThe second Set Subject competition of the 2018/19 season was in the form of a Triptych print competition, and was held on Thursday 18th April, judged by Harry Emmett from Accrington. Harry made a few points about the way that a Triptych should be viewed as a set, which means the layout, mounting and sequence of images in the set
Read moreThroughout the photoshoot, Graham offered some shooting advice, came up with ideas for poses and locations and always ensured he made eye contact with each photographer in turn. The shoot gave a good stock of characters for further development of the images.
Read moreA small group of LSAPS photographers from the Tutorial Group visited a bridge over the M55 on Wednesday evening to photograph light trails. Mainly an exercise in choosing the right shutter speed, whilst controlling the exposure with aperture and ISO settings. When we got fed up with that, we made a quick retreat to the nearest pub.
Read moreIn the Print competition, LSAPS came 5th equal out of 17 clubs, whilst in the PDI competition, LSAPS placed 6th out of 19. Both competitions were won by Chorley PS, however LSAPS scored a notable success when Winter Woollies by Gordon Watson was placed in overall 1st place in the PDI knock-out competition.
Read moreThe top scoring LSAPS image was On A Winter’s Day by Gordon Watson, which scored 14pts in the Mono Print category. Well done to everyone whose images were used.
Read moreThe 2nd Open Print competition of the season was held on 24th January. The featured image for this competition is Swan Feathers by David Foreman which scored 20pts in the Intermediate Group.
Read moreThe Seaside Invitation is an annual inter-club competition between LSAPS and Southport Photographic Society. The competition consists of 20 Prints and 20 PDI’s, where each set must be produced by 20 different authors. This year the competition was hosted by Southport on 10th December. and judged by Jane Lines. After the Print competition, Southport were slightly ahead by 5 points,
Read moreThe L&CPU Knock-Out competition was held on 17th November at Poynton Civic Hall. The competition was won by Poulton-le-Fylde with 16 points, whilst LSAPS finished in joint 14th place with 11 points. Congratulations to Carol Watson, whose View from the Jetty made it to round 5.
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