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Exhibition of the Society's prints in Lorrach, Germany

Lorrach is celebrating European Day at the beginning of May by holding various events involving their twinned cities -Chester, Sens and Senigallia. Part of the event is to hold a photographic exhibition depicting these cities.

Lorrach is located in SW Germany, close to the Swiss/ French boarder and not far from Basle. (Accessible by cheap EasyJet flights from Liverpool!)

View Images

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Monochrome Section Added to Competitions

The first monochrome competition took place 05/02/08 (L&CPU folio evening) A maxium of three entries per member, being handed in on evening.

Judging was by experienced non participating members with the results to count towards Photographer of the Year.

Entries eligible for Annual Competition. But previous entries in competitions not eligible in this one.

Due to the interest shown and the success of the event it will be added to the listed competitions in our programme next season.

The L&CPU monochrome definition to apply to this competition (search www.lcpu.org for details)

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CPS Members Launch New Web Sites

Three more CPS members have joined the small but ever growing band of members with web sites. The latest are David Fenton, Den Fawcett and Paul Stanway. These sites are well worth a visit And contain some excellent images by all three photographers, but don't just take my word for it, go to the Photo Links page and see for yourself.

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Rule Change Regarding Number of Print Entries.

The number of entries which may be submitted by each author will be decided for each competition by the Competition Secretary/Committee but unless an announcement is made to the contrary the following will apply:-

Annual Competition - Entry limited to 9 slides and
6 prints per author with the additional proviso that no more than 4 slides or 3 prints may be entered in any one category (Open, Natural History or Portraiture).

All other Competitions - Entry limited to 4 slides
and 3 prints per author.

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Final Positions for the
CPS Photographer of the Year 2007

Congratulations to Gareth Hickey, CPS Photographer of the Year 2007 with an impressive seasons score of 92 points.
Many thanks to Derek Meredith our hard working Competition Secretary for all his efforts through out the year.

Here are the final positions for Class A and B.

A WORKERS

1. GARETH HICKEY
2. RONALD KILGANNON
3. NORMAN RILEY
4. PAUL WHITE
5. JOHN DERNIE
6. JANET FALCON
7. BILL MARKS
8. NICK ADAMSON
9. ROY WEBB
10. PATRICK FALEUR
11. RAY GROOME
12. MIKE REED
13. JOHN BEAVAN
14. DEREK WAKEHAM
15. DEN FAWCETT
16. DEREK MEREDITH
17. IAN ATKINSON
18. PAUL STANWAY
19. ROY BRERETON
20. GRAHAM LATTER
21. DAWN ROBERTS

B WORKERS

1. NICKY LEWIS
2. ROBERT LEWIS
3. ANN WHITE
4. DAVID FENTON
5. LEE STEWART
6. EDWARD MILLER
7. NICK HASTINGS-WINCH

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* STUDIO AVAILABLE FOR HIRE *

Fully equipped Photographic Studio for hire
Wrexham from as little as £12 per hour.

Follow this link for full details

Delkin SensorScope Cleaning System

The Society has purchased in a Delkin SensorScope cleaning system for the benefit of our members. SensorScope enables you to check your sensor to see if it needs cleaning. The SensorScope looks like a camera lens; however, it allows you to look back into your camera to inspect your sensor. Anyone can clean an image sensor in four easy steps:

Step One: Set up your camera to be cleaned (full instructions given).
Step Two: Use the SensorScope to inspect your sensor. If it isn’t dirty, don’t clean it!
Step Three: Clean your sensor with SensorVac and wet/dry SensorSafe Wands.
Step Four: Inspect your sensor with SensorScope again.

The SensorScope cleaning system can be used by members for a fee of £5 per use.
Further information about SensorScope can be found at www.delkin.com.

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YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER COMPETITION
SUCCESS CONTINUES AND CONTINUES!

CPS Member Ten year old Michael Atkinson, took second place again in the Southport Open Exhibition 2008 in the Young Photographer Competition, with the image of a Puffin taken on the Farne Islands.

Michael's success started in the 2006 Southport Open Exhibition when he won Young Photographer Competition with his photo 'Old Boy'. In 2007 he was placed 2nd with
his image 'The Liverpool Pilot' and 2nd place again in 2008 with his 'Puffin' image. Congratulations Michael.

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CPS Competition Rules are now available on line.
Members please note L&CPU have made changes to mount
size rules. Follow the link below
CPS RULES OK!

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The CPS 2007/08 Club Theme Competition

As you are all know at the end of each season are held the two theme competitions, the Presidents and the club theme. The Subjects for the 2007/08 Theme Competitions are:-

"Personal Space" - The Presidents Theme

And the Club Theme is "Aspects of Chester"

The hand in date for Theme Competitions
is the 26th of February 2008

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Getting the best from your Computer Monitor
And Inkjet Printer

The Society has now purchased two monitor calibration devices and a top of the range instrument for profiling Inkjet Printers.

For a fee of £5 per year members of the Society can now periodically borrow a monitor calibration device to ensure their monitors are set up correctly.

Our monitor calibration kit is one of the best on the market the Monaco Optix Pro that can not only calibrate and profile your monitor, but also evaluate its performance so that you can track any change in its characteristics.

For a fee of £5 per profile we can also provide you with a printer profile that will ensure you are obtaining optimum results from your inkjet printer. It will also provide you with an opportunity to experiment with a wide range of printing papers and 'compatible inks' as we can provide you with a printer profile for any combination of your choice.

Our printer calibration kit is an X-Rite Autoscan Spectrophotometer DTP 70 with Monaco Profiler Platinum software- the most sophisticated gear of its type available.

Your colour management problems can now be solved for a very modest fee!

This adds considerable added value for all members of Chester Photographic Society engaged in digital photography- join now to gain some of these benefits!

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