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John Widdall Trophy 2023

The first John Widdall Trophy was a great success with 116 images entered in sets of 4. Entrants had to enter sets of four images, choosing from Architectural Record, Close Up and Table top, Montage and Stitched Panoramas, with the added complexity that they must enter a minimum of 2 categories. John’s sister and brother-in-law…
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Second Quarterly Results 2023

The second quarterly was judged by Jeremy Malley-Smith from Wigan 10, who gave excellent feedback on the night. The top marked images in both print and projected (PDI) sections are shown below. Congratulations to all who entered – the standard was very high and it was really good to see prints making a comeback in…
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Annual Battle, Oldham PS, Rochdale CC and the Isle of Man PS

The annual competition, or “battle” between Oldham Photographic Society, the Isle of Man PS and Rochdale Camera Club was held on 19th January 2023 at the North Chadderton Conservative Club. David Butler from Wigan did an excellent job of appraising and scoring the images and we were pleased to welcome members from both our opponent…
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FIAP World Cup for Clubs 2022

Well the FIAP World Cup results are out at last – and that’s FIAP not FIFA! FIAP is the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique, which translates as the “International Federation of Photographic Art”. FIAP was conceived in 1946 in the aftermath of the Second World War to bring together people from all over the world…
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L&CPU Annual Club Knockout

The Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU) held their annual Club Knockout competition at Elm Bank Banqueting & Conference Centre, Eccles on 18th November 2022. Peter Gennard MFIAP EFIAPd2 from the Midlands judged the competition. 38 clubs entered, so they only used our first four chosen images from the eight that we had selected to…
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Oldham PS Battle against Evolve Group

Evolve Group are a talented group of photographers who meet near Wigan. They had never had a battle one-on-one before, so it was great that they agreed to take on Oldham PS. We judged them to be strong opponents and with two fairly evenly matched clubs, the outcome was uncertain. Enter the judge – Steve…

