GROSVENOR MUSEUM, Chester from March 2nd – June 2nd 2024
THE EXHIBITION IS NOW OPEN
in Gallery Two which is upstairs in the Grosvenor Museum,
27 Grosvenor St, Chester CH1 2DD
Tel 01244 972197
There is no lift available to this floor, so access
is only possible via stairs.
Prints, digital images and vintage cameras on display.
Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite images.
Spread the word and bring your family and friends.
It’s that time of year again, and on behalf of myself and the CPS Committee, I would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and New Year.
This is the time of year where we look forward to delivering the second half of our season’s competitions and workshops at the United Reform Church, and the presentations on Zoom.
We must not forget the Exhibition in the Grosvenor Museum running from March to May 2024.
So, take the time to be with family and friends over the Christmas period and recharge your batteries for the new year’s events.
Wishing you all a “Very Pleasant Christmas” and a “Better Brighter New Year”.
Graham Jones
CPS President.
Chester PS entered the recent L&CPU Annual Knockout Competition with a panel of 8 PDI images. 40 clubs entered the competition, giving a total of 320 images. As per the rules the number of images used in the competition depends on the final number of images entered; so the first four images entered by each club were used, giving judge Simon Allen a total of 160 images to judge and critique. The competition went to 7 rounds, with five images in the final round.
Wigan 10 took first place, Chorley PS second and joint third place went to Oldham PS and Lytham St Annes.
Full results can be viewed from the link below. CPS came joint 29th out of 40 along with 9 other clubs including our near neighbours Hoylake and Birkenhead.
Thank you to Jim Jones, Terry Daltrey, Keith Fitzpatrick and John Wild whose images were used in the competition and to Philip Macey, Vikky Naudi, Sue Champion and Jan Wilding whose images made up our initial entry but were not used on the night.
Report by
Jan Wilding
External Competition Secretary
Jim Jones, Ian Nixon and John Wild have been presented with their awards won in last season’s Digital Projected Image competitions. All the images can be viewed here.
Jim Jones received the Trophies for both the People and the President Theme. Ian Nixon won the Landscape Shield and John Wild received the Nature Trophy. Well done chaps !
We were invited to take part in the North Cheshire Open PDI Knockout Competition which was held on Zoom on Saturday, 3rd June, 2023. Twenty seven clubs entered from around the region and each submitted 5 images from 5 different authors. Our entry came from Ray Groome, Sue Champion, Keith Fitzpatrick, Kate Sawallisch and Jan Wilding. The total number of images in the competition was 135 and it was quite a task for the judge, Terry Donnelly, who eventually whittled it down to 6 final images. Congratulations to Sue Champion whose image of ‘Seth’ made it through to the last 6 but was just pipped at the post by Stephen Moon from High Peak Photographic Club.
There was a tie for first place between Chorley PS and The Evolve Group and we came a very creditable joint 9th together with Knutsford PS, North Cheshire PS and Warrington PS. The following table shows the full results:-
Report by Jan Wilding
External Competition Secretary
The Annual Dinner and Presentation of Trophies was held at Chez Jules on Monday 17th April. President Graham Jones congratulated members on the standard of entries submitted to this year’s competitions.
Thanks go to Kate Sawallisch for booking the venue and Terry Daltry for organising the engraving of trophies.
The L&CPU Annual Club DPI Competition for 2023 was judged last weekend in Chorley. We submitted 16 images to the Open Section and 8 to the Nature section. All images were taken from recent CPS competitions and we were pleased to be able to include works from some newer members in our entry.
Congratulations must go to John Wild and Terry Daltrey whose images of the ‘Sea Eagle’ and ‘Grey Heron’ both scored 13 out of 15 points in the Nature Section and to Jim Jones whose landscape image ‘The Rivals’ also scored 13 points out of 15 in the Open Section.
Again, we were competing against some of the very best clubs in Lancashire and Cheshire and although we may not have scored very highly in the overall Club ranking, coming 30th out of 36 clubs, we were proud to take part.
The following links will take you to the Online Catalogue and the Virtual Galleries on the L&CPU site where you can see the award winning images from this competition.
https://lcpu-portal.org/portal/catalogue/catalogue.php?A=MTA3
https://lcpu-portal.org/portal/gallery/newbuild.php?id=MTA3
Congratulations and thanks to Patricia Keegan, Sue Champion, Vikki Naudi, Kate Sawallisch, Jim Jones, Jim Walshe, John Beavan, Ron Sutton, Keith Fitzpatrick, Terry Daltrey, John Wild, Ian Atkinson, Ian Nixon and Jan Wilding whose images we used in our entry.
Jan Wilding
External Competition Secretary
Chester PS recently took part in the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain GB Cup. We scored 107 points and were placed 13th out of 14 in the GB Cup (Limited Eligibility) formerly known as the GB Cup for Small Clubs. This was a nationwide competition, and we were up against some of the very best clubs in the country. Although we may not have scored very highly on this occasion it is, as they say, the taking part that counts and it all helps to raise the profile of our club and hopefully encourages us to take even better photos.
Thanks must go to Sue Champion, Keith Fitzpatrick, Jim Jones, Patricia Keegan, David Melville, Ron Sutton, Jim Walshe and Jan Wilding for the use of their images.
Report by Jan Wilding, External Competition Secretary
Best Wishes for the festive season from CPS President Graham Jones
and all the Committee. The second half of the season starts on
January 3rd and details can be found on the Programme page.
Chester Photographic Society 