We’ve completed the final part of updating our website by updating the forum and adding it directly to the website. It will no longer direct you off this site and to a separate page for the forum.
This should give a couple of advantages, including making it easier to get to the forum from the site, but also to get back to the site from the forum.
All club members that have email addresses have had accounts set up to use the new forum and have been emailed the relevant details.
Please take a few minutes to familiarise yourselves with the new forum, and if you have any questions, please feel free to email me.
New Forum.
Decembers forum competition: Theme chosen
The theme for the December forum competition has been chosen by October’s winner, Tony Higginson. The theme is “Self portraits – the eyes have it”. Entries must have been taken between the 25th November 2011 and the midnight 25th December 2011.
Please visit the forum to enter.
November’s forum competition: Voting now open.
The voting for November’s forum competition is now open. Please visit the forum to cast your vote.
Lecture: Colin Prior High Light at UCLAN.
Last night (Friday 18th November 2011) saw Preston Photographic Society hold a fantastic lecture with World renowned photographer Colin Prior.
The ticketed event was really well subscribed with a near sell out crowd who were treated to a very informative, entertaining and polished lecture by Colin.
Split into two halves with a short interval, Colin displayed some excellent images and provided some very interesting anecdotes along with commentary that had the audience transfixed.
After a short Q&A session where members asked a variety of questions, ranging from “who Colin thought were the “leading lights” in the landscape photography business” (apart from himself of course), through to the type of kit he uses and the state of the industry – particularly for newcomers, we had a raffle with some excellent prizes. These prizes included a signed copy of Colin’s latest book “High Light” and a couple of signed calendars.
PPS vice president and internal competition secretary Melvin Nicholson was the lucky winner of the signed book!
Overall it was an excellent evening with a great turn out, so thanks to not only those who helped organise the event, UCLAN for providing a great venue and also to all of those who attended.
We will add a few more images from the night in due course, but for now, here’s a BTS photo from the Q&A session.

BTS photo from the Colin Prior High Light lecture.
Lecture: Deano’s Digital Dabblings
Last Thursday (10th November 2011) we had a great lecture by Graham Dean, entitled “Deano’s Digital Dabblings”.
It was a really interesting evening with Graham going through a number of his photos, explaining the thought processes behind them and giving a brief overview as to his edits.
It was interesting to see some of his early, pre-photoshop work, and the results that were possible.
It was a very enjoyable evening and our thanks go to Graham for coming along and providing us with a fun evening.
1st Monthly Competition: The results.
We had the results of the first monthly competition last Thursday (November 3rd). There were some great images and several deserving winners. It was great to see some new names coming through and winning too.
It was an interesting night with the judge providing some “interesting” comments.
You can see the winners here: 1st Monthly Competition Winners.
November’s forum competition: Colour Popping.
We’ve just opened the November forum competition. The theme is “Colour Popping” and was chosen by Danny McCormick. Visit the link to enter your images.
Let’s make this the best forum competition ever!
Images must have been taken between October the 25th and November 25th. If you have any questions please ask.
Free Software Link: FastStone Viewer
Club member John Crashley has kindly shared a link with the club members on the forum about a free piece of photo software called FastStone viewer. This is ideal for those members who don’t wish to spend the several hundred pounds that Adobe charges for Photoshop CS5.
Thanks for John for sharing the link, it’s repeated here.
FastStone Viewer
Next Winter Photo Walk: Whinlatter Forest, Sunday 6th November
Our next photo walk is next Sunday (6th November) and is a trip to Whinlatter Forest. We shall be leaving the club car park at 11am and returning later in the day. The idea is to capture the autumnal colours (which should be in their full glory) present at this time of year.
Thank to Outdoor Events Co-Ordinator Peter Batty for organising.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
2011/2012 Mini Grand Prix: Dates announced.
Following on from a successful introduction last year, we have decided to run the Mini Grand Prix for a second season. Our External Competition secretary Ian Wells has kindly put together the list of competitions to enter, and these can now be accessed via a PDF on the downloads page, or by clicking the link here.
If you have any queries or questions, please contact us.