LAST WEEK 18th - 24th July on 17th July - we had the PAGB Inter-Club PDI Championships at Warwick. Wigan 10 lost the Final to Smethwick PS by ONE MARK. Also separated by one mark in the PLATE COMPETITION were the other two L&CPU competing clubs;
Chorley PS (100 and 4th in the Plate) and Oldham PS (99). The full club results are here. PAGB e-Newsletter 31 is here featuring some of the PDI Championship images - detailed results will follow. (Also an interesting opportunity to judge for Australian clubs!).
Congratulations to Wigan 10 member Roy Rimmer for gaining a silver medal for Whippet Race, judge Malcolm Kus's choice. Wigan 10 also take a PAGB silver medal as Runner-up Club.
We have a little more about the way the website helped Whalley Primary School (NEWS)
Nigel Richard's MA ARPS "From Above" at Northwich- EVENTS.We have added Great Barr, Northern Counties and Bromsgrove to the External Competitions.
The L&CPU Annual Exhibition
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Robert Millin LRPS posted this picture on the Forum and I thought it captured very well indeed what an exciting display we have for you at Kirkby.
Don't miss it - and don't let your members miss it!
Below I am also highlighting one picture from this year's exhibition. This is also, in a way, a plug for our Folios and Archive Loan Service which are valuable resources for your club which you can use in a variety of ways for one meeting. Many of the Folios have a commentary which is helpful especially to your newer members. A little less than one half of the selected prints are exhibited.
Here again is the CATALOGUE (updated to include Addendum) and DIRECTIONS to KIRKBY LIBRARY & GALLERY,Newtown Gardens, Kirkby, Knowsley, L32 8RR. Opening times: See poster on EVENTS PAGE . |
PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION- No.3
In the exhibition this year we are making a special feature of some print from the Archives. They just happen to be ones that David Marsh selected for his book too.
T Lee Syms Hon FRPS is by Earnest Lane and dates from about 1907. Syms was founder and first Vice -President of the L&CPU and served as President three times; 1910, 1916-18 and 1930.
A great character study and do look at the very skillful way the depth of field has been used to hold the attention on the face. I would like to think that this image would have done very well if it had been entered this year!
Nothing is said of the author of this striking portrait, Earnest Lane. I wonder if you know who he was?
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Earlier News - Lecturers & Judges Updates -L&CPU Diary - Website Guide (Sitemap)- What's On The Forum
EARLIER NEWS - 3rd July DELEGATES MEETING - AWARDS - ANNUAL EXHIBITION OPENING: On Saturday 3rd July a packed house at Kirkby Gallery was the first to enjoy our beautifully staged ANNUAL EXHIBITION. Prior to that they had heard the glad news of a further reduction in membership fees (£3.05) from our Treasurer, Gordon Jenkins APAGB - this will include the valuable new Trustees insurance. The reduction is possible because of a further increase in membership this year (5% again), well done to you all for not just getting but keeping your new members! A large number of Award winners managed to attend and were warmly congratulated by us all.
Please enjoy Ed Roper's pictures of the happenings and do try to get your members to visit the exhibition - it really is a great tribute to club photography in the North West and is bound to inspire them.
To help, here again is the CATALOGUE (updated to include Addendum) and DIRECTIONS to KIRKBY LIBRARY & GALLERY,Newtown Gardens, Kirkby, Knowsley, L32 8RR. Opening times: See poster on EVENTS PAGE .
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George Smethurst
George Smethurst left the Executive at the AGM in February. He had served on the Executive Committee for over 20 years and during that time he carried out two important roles... those of Folio Secretary and Exhibition Secretary.
As Folio Secretary, George was responsible for arranging the folio routes and later accommodating the changes that clubs sometimes request, arranging for commentaries to be made, the paperwork associated with the job, distribution of the folios and then dealing with the inevitable problems that arise from time to time during the forthcoming year.
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As Exhibition Secretary, George was responsible for locating suitable venues and carrying out negotiations with curators, arranging for the hanging and taking down of the exhibitions, compiling and distributing catalogues, arranging publicity and invitations to openings and providing refreshments for those attending. All of this takes a great deal of time and organisational skill and George carried out all of these tasks with dedication and attention to detail. You will also remember that this was during the time when we actually hung all the 360 prints that are in the folios!!
George was an obvious candidate for President but, although he was asked on more than one occasion, he always declined, preferring to work in the background and contribute in his own special way.
He finally decided to step down from the EC at the AGM in February – his input to our meetings is missed but we understand his reasons and we wish him well for the future.
George has already been appointed to the Roll of Honour, but we also wanted to show our thanks for everything that he has done for the Union over the years and so I was delighted to present him with a commemorative salver as a token of our appreciation. Christine Widdall, L&CPU President, 3rd July 2010
OTHER DELEGATES MEETING DOCUMENTS ; Letter - Agenda - Discussion Paper -Diary .The L&CPU Rules (Constitution) are always on the L&CPU Page
L&CPU EXECUTIVE MEETING – Saturday 26th June – The Executive Committee met at Kirkby Gallery on Saturday and framed the exhibition before starting their meeting. Here is a REPORT of the days business by John Smith, it is also posted on the L&CPU page.
20th June - Unusual, yes - and we are not about to take on Auto Trader but we hope you will agree that it would be good to help to sell; David Marsh's car - A Nissan Micra 1200, silver 3-door first registered in November 2009 and only 1400 miles on the clock - further details from our Treasurer, Gordon Jenkins Treasurer@lcpu.org.uk.
We are pleased to give pride of place now in the L&CPU Annual Results for the YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER of the YEAR awards.
14th June 2010 : Folios Update - The latest 2010-11 FOLIO ROTA is now on the Downloads Page. The Documentary Folios are now to be known as Nature & Illustrative. Jon folios@lcpu.org.uk would like to know of any changes to be made with Folio dates so the Rota to be included in the boxes is correct. Clubs not taking the folios will have a digital version. More details.
9th June 2010: PAGB Inter-Federation Print Results (L&CPU only). Every year each of the Federations sends entries for this national level competition. Our results are just back; 7 acceptance in the mono section and 10 acceptances with 3 ribbons in the colour section. Good to see some new names among those and, with 15 for Cheetah Chasing Gazelle for Austin Thomas, there is obviously more news yet to tell!- We were 4th in the colour prints and 6th in the monochrome - see PAGB Page.
STOP PRESS! PAGB e-Newsletter 30 is now here with the full results
PAGB e-Newsletter 29, devoted to copyright issues is available on the PAGB page.
CLUB NEWS features Sale members Charity efforts.
Friday 21st May -Whalley Primary School are planning a whole week (beginning 12th July) devoted to the history of photography and cinema and are looking for someone who could go into the school for a day and spend time with each of the four infant classes Email Drew Spencer (update July - pleased to say that Drew had two volunteers for this). Now see NEWS.
Wednesday 19th May - PAGB e-Newsletter 28 added (lightweight version!)- Report on PAGB AGM & Exec Meeting, Rod Wheelans Hon PAGB MPAGB MFIAP FRPS FIPF is awarded JS Lancaster Medal, Trustee Liability Insurance, Gordon Jenkins to produce PI CD, FIAP matters, advice on preparing PDIs. More additions to Events page; Hebden Bridge Exhibition (TPU club) and the RPS Comtemporary Group have a day with Martin Parr and John Darwell.
Saturday 15th May was a very busy day for your L&CPU Exec plus helpers and 6 judges - the prints took 13 hours to judge and process! The PIs were judged at a different venue - the first time that all the Annual judging has been done in one day rather than two separate ones. We used two venues.
Sunday 9th May: PAGB e-Newsletter 27 published; tribute to David Marsh, PAGB adjudication results in full and news of an extra adjudication in December. If you are interested in the PAGB distinctions act now!
Also added; a personal account of the Gertrude Bohm exhibition (EVENTS) by David Jones of Mid Cheshire CC.
Tuesday 5th May: Following our EC Meeting on Saturday 1st May we will have a number of things to report and they will be added to the site as full details become available. Your prints for the Annual are now sorted and ready for judging (together with the projected images) on 15th May. The results should be available here quite soon afterwards.
The Executive Committee meeting is reported here. We have new PAGB distinctions to celebrate, including the rare MPAGB for Kathryn Scorah LRPS DPAGB ABPE of Wigan 10 on the NEWS page.
David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB - 1934-2010
We regret to announce that of one of the great servants of the L&CPU - David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB - died on Sunday 18th April. The picture above shows him at one of the L&CPU Centenary Exhibition openings. The exhibition was the crowning glory of his work with the Federation which spanned nearly 40 years. It was only a couple of weeks ago that we posted here his book which accompanied the exhibition - very thoroughly researched as was typical of David.
If you would like to share reminiscences of David please email them to the Webmaster and we can ensure that future club members will know something of this great man.
OBITUARY by Doug Couzens & John Smith - Link to L&CPU - The First 100 Years.
Other items this week(25th April): NEWS PAGE - Tony Glover of St Helen's CC has images representing Liverpool in major exhibition in China. DIRECTORY UPDATES - Joan Blease has gained her ARPS - it's difficult to keep up with Joan's meteoric rise! Well done!
The End of “Section 44”? Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows the home secretary to authorise police to make random searches in certain circumstances. It has caused a some friction between between police and street photographers.
The Strasbourg Court has ruled Section 44 a breach of our human rights http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8453878.stm This may or may not lead to changes which make street photography easier but in any case why not, as you plan for next season, think about issuing membership cards to your club? It gives some credibility if you are stopped. Many clubs have them; you could leave space for a passport photo and even include suitable wording on the back to state something about photographer’s rights. Oldham PS do this and you can see what they include here.
“The L&CPU – The First 100 Years1905-2005” was written by David Marsh FRPS Hon PAGB to accompany the Centenary Exhibition which toured the region from 2005 to 2008. It was the crowning glory of David’s long service to the L&CPU and a valuable document tracing the history of the L&CPU and featuring photographs used in the exhibition. There is now a fully searchable PDF version of the book on the L&CPU page. This is the first item in our ARCHIVE section. It is accompanied by the Archive Catalogue and Centenary Catalogue and this is the start of a major section of the website.
Our President was in the Isle of Man recently and you can read a report on the NEWS page.
We also have a note that Tony Riley (Surrey Fed. PAGB rep) is a professional colour profiler and has just started building a new web site – he tells us that over the next few weeks new topics will be added; have a look at the first at:http://www.imagetune.co.uk/
Finally, we have a new lecturer - James Russell (Macclesfield) - Introduction to Flash Photography.
29th March: This week we have the REPORT about the EC MEETING on the 13th March. The distinctions guide has been revised and is on the DOWNLOADS page – together with a guide about CHILD PROTECTION which seems dated but has just been sent to us by our insurers and so deserves your attention.
We have NEWS of new FIAP awards – congratulations to you all.
There are a number of new EVENTS from Stockport, Colne,Ormskirk and the PAGB PI Championships.
Last week we started to include changes to the LECTURERS & JUDGES details made since the DIRECTORY was published. We are adding NEW DISTINCTIONS this week – just a few to get the ball rolling - send us yours if you want it included. Changes to Club details have been listed on the CLUBS page for nearly a year now.
Everything will stay listed until the new Directory is out.
We hope to bring you information about MUSIC COPYRIGHT MATTERS on your AVs etc soon. This is a good time perhaps to remind you about copyright on your images again too, something to think about when you post images on the web or enter competitions.
Information on the L&CPU Annuals is now complete on the COMPETITIONS PAGE
L&CPU BIG DAY - Can You Help? A BIG DAY is being planned for next March, possibly Sunday 20th. One vital element is the venue. Have you any suggestions? The ideal would be; capacity of 300, tiered lecture hall with projection, technical support (or full access for us to manage), catering facilities and/or dining area for coffee and lunches, car parking, reasonable cost and fairly central to the region. Webmaster
Look after your images. Among fears that any image appearing on the web is fair game for losing copyright we are grateful to the Royal Photographic Society for negotiating some assurances over this. Nevertheless it is good practice to make sure any images that you put up for public viewing have a copyright mark and your name in the metadata to help avoid them being designated as “orphan works”. Also, do read the small print when submitting images to commercial competitions or broadcasting companies and so on; you may be signing away your copyright.
Our AGM Report, authored by John Smith, is here. John has done a great job of making all that business really quite readable! There are many points of interest and it is profusely illustrated with John's photos of some of the chief protagonists.
Also reporting in a lively fashion is Rod Wheelans in the latest PAGB e-Newsletter. The PAGB have decided to make jpegs the standard for PDI Competitions, thus saving memory space and simplfying competition entry. Our Gordon Jenkins has an item in the e-Newsletter about this. Also featured is an an explanation of the Trustee Insurance which the L&CPU hopes to offer to Clubs free of charge!
Rod has also sent through a list of the PAGB Award Pre-Qualification criteria for each Federation. Unless you belong to more than one club and they in turn belong to different Federations this is of no practical interest but it is notable that the L&CPU criteria are just about the simplest; enter the Annuals for 2 years (CPAGB), 3 years (DPAGB) or 5 (MPAGB). By the way, applications for November adjudications are full but there may be an extra adjudication staged this year, so get your applications in.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT – Christine Widdall AFIAP DPAGB BPE3*
Christine received a very warm welcome at the AGM on Saturday 27th February as our new President. She paid tribute to the past Presidents and to the present Officers and Executive Committee. Regarding reform she said that she did not believe in fixing things which were not broken but that some things were “a little bit cracked” and would be getting attention.
She was pleased that we now had a swift means of communicating to the clubs what the L&CPU are doing in the shape of the newsletter, something she had pressed for in committee. We had seen today that the Officers and EC members were good communicators and she hoped that the clubs would respond by communicating their ideas and opinions back to the L&CPU.
Our new President went on to talk about three projects which the L&CPU have on the agenda. Firstly, we are looking at the ways in which we could arrange mentoring for those who want to apply for the PAGB awards. Then she asked the audience who would attend a “Big Day” if we were to arrange one. A strong response underlined the inclusion of that on the agenda. Finally she referred to the State Of The Union survey conducted in 2000 and said that another questionnaire/review along similar lines would take place, probably early next season. In 2000 Clubs had found this very useful indeed in understanding where they stand and how they might plan for the future – now was the time to look at this again.
Christine’s day was topped by her own club Oldham PS winning the PDI Challenge in the evening following the AGM. It was also the first event she presided over.
We all look forward to working with Christine in what promises to be an exciting time for the Union and the Clubs.
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The State Of Union Report - What was it?
In 2000, Rob Vince, who was then Hon General Secretary had become anxious about the falling numbers of club members and Christine was actioned to carry out a "State of the Union" research project in the form of a questionnaire, which resulted in the State of the Union Report and a follow-up Factsheet, in which members of the Executive (Keith Suddaby, Bob Dennis and David Marsh) and some of the clubs were asked to provide input. It is an excellent piece of work which still has a lot of relevance and an update will be very useful to the clubs.
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....and don't forget our new President's book on Saddleworth!
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LECTURERS & JUDGES
Changes since the publication of the 2009-2010 Directory:-
New Lecturers
Joan Blease AFIAP ARPS BPE2* (Warrington)– The Art Of Composition now The Bare Essentials.
Professor Terry Hewitt (Stockport) - Presentation 1: Lightroom Exposed: An introduction to Adobe Lightroom
Presentation 2: Managing the Photographs on your Computer (Digital Information Management)
Presentation 3: Colour Management from Camera to Screen to Printer
James Russell LBIPP (Macclesfield) - D Introduction to Flash Photography
Contact changes
Sheila Davies DPAGB– new address etc. Also new lecture DAV - Let's Make an AV Together
Jeremy Malley-Smith LRPS BPE 2* (Judge)– new phone number.
Other Changes
Please remember that Joe Morgan (Judge) died in January.
Distinctions
We all like to get these right when you arrive to speak to us or judge our competitions - please let the club know, but we can list them here too:
Joan Blease AFIAP ARPS BPE2*, Noel Morgan AFIAP BPE2* PSA1*, Diana MagorAFIAP LRPS, Tremaine Cornish AFIAP PSA-EID3* ND2* CPID2*, John Sixsmith EFIAPb ARPS BPE4*, Jeremy Malley-Smith LRPS BPE 2*
We do not post contact details on the website, so for the information referred to above please email the Webmaster. Bob Dennis is responsible for Judges and Lecturers and all other matters should be referred to him Lecturers & Judges.
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L&CPU Diary 2010
21st August - |
Annual Exhibition Closes |
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Annual Exhibition taken down |
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Exec. Committee Meeting, Euxton |
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L&CPU Knock-Out closing date for entries |
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L&CPU PDI Knock-Out Competition & Exec. |
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PAGB Merit Award Adjudications at Wilmslow Guild, 1 Bourne Street, Wilmslow SK9 5HD |
8th January 2011 - |
Exec. Committee Meeting |
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The AV competitions on 20th February went well and we have the results on the competitions page
This week saw the announcement of the Great British Cup Natural History Competition results. Wigan 10 won, by quite a margin, a remarkable achievement when you consider that even a 20th place club would have nothing below 12 marks for any image. Congratulations to W10 and to the other L&CPU clubs getting in the top twenty; Hoylake, Southport and Crewe. It is all reported in the PAGB Newsletter 23 (NOTE – 4Mb), a smaller version is available here (2Mb). The full individual image results are on the PAGB page.
FIAP WORLD CUP - Wigan 10 were the highest placed GB Club, with a Gold Medal for Roy Rimmer and Silver for Austin Thomas. Smethwick were a couple of places behind in 10th place. Wigan PS were 29th, Blackburn 31st, Chorley 43rd out of 104 clubs.
Our heartiest congratulations to all these clubs, not just for having members with the talent to do so well but for having the initiative, drive and determination to put in all the work of making an entry, their members should be very proud of them!
All the winning entries are on the FIAP website
here(14.01.10)
PAGB Great British Cup 2010 Results - Natural History Postponed. WIGAN 10 WIN GBC OPEN - More Details in e-Newsletter 22 (1.28Mb)
PAGB AWARDS If you are considering applying for one of the PAGB Awards; CPAGB, DPAGB, MPAGB, act quickly. The April 2010 assessment date has been fully booked for a long time. November 2010 is filling quickly and is special to us because the L&CPU are hosting the event, at Wilmslow Guild. The L&CPU holds the record for number of entries, it will be interesting to see if we break that record! The information is available on the PAGB page.
The revised Rota for the 2010-2011 L&CPU Folios is available here. Do please check it. Our Folio Secretary is Jon Allanson.
Extra copies of the L&CPU Directory (£3) and the PAGB Handbook (£8)?
Send a cheque (payable to L&CPU) to the Treasurer, Gordon Jenkins or email him here
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