Sep 212011
 

On the North Cheshire Challenges website, we have identified the authors and titles of the winning prints, PDIs, and slides, for the last 10 years or so. We would like to display the images themselves.

Here is how we would display them: this is an example where NCPS itself entered the winning image. (See PDI results of 2010). We would display the image, title, author, and copyright statement, on a black background. The border is one of “none”, “1px white”, or “10px white”, depending on the image itself or the author’s preference. Our standard size is “height and width are no more than 750px”. (We might also display smaller versions “in line” within an report, with an acknowledgment).

We want to hold copies of the images on our website, rather than links to images elsewhere, to ensure that links will not get broken. Please send images to the webmaster. Obviously there is no compulsion, and the author’s decision must be final. If the author prefers a smaller image that is fine. A discrete watermark would be acceptable.

Please help us improve our website with your winning images! Thank you.

(We would also be interested in any other suggestions you have for improving our website and blog).

Sep 182011
 

Advance notification of dates and details for the 2012 inter-club events have been issued by e-mail to my list of contacts from last year’s participating clubs. This list may be out-of-date, as clubs’ officers and addresses might well have changed. If you are aware that your club is missing this initial contact, or if your club did not enter last year but would wish to be included in 2012, please respond to this blog and include your contact details.

More information concerning these events can be found under the “Next Comps” link.

Sep 142011
 

Here are copies of the results and reports that were posted to the blog of  North Cheshire Photographic Society after the North Cheshire Challenges competitions in the 2011 Annual Exhibition.

February 11, posted by Barry Pearson: Results of the Interclub Competitions in the 2011 Exhibition

February 13, posted by Tony Redford: NCPS Annual Exhibition 2011 – Inter-club Competitions report

February 15, posted by Bill Chadband: Annual Exhibition 9-11 February 2011

Future competitions news, results, and reports will be posted directly to the North Cheshire Challenges website and blog.

Sep 142011
 

North Cheshire Photographic Society holds two interclub competitions  during our Annual Exhibition each February. We inaugurated the first of these  in 1981 as a slide knock-out competition, then added the print competition (one of the first interclub competitions specifically for digital prints) in 1999. The slide knock-out was replaced by a projected digital image knock-out in 2008.

We have given the collective name “North Cheshire Challenges” to these competitions. And we have created this website and blog to provide easier and more comprehensive access to information about the North Cheshire Challenges, past and future.