Atherton & District Amateur Photographic Society

To explain for newer members, the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union (L&CPU) is an organisation that's like a club for the clubs, so the local photographic clubs can join. The L&CPU offers judges (I'm one of these), speakers, advantageous insurance rates, and so on. We pay an annual subscription depending on how many members we have. In its turn, the regional L&CPU is a member of the PAGB (Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) and then of course beyond that there are international organisations. It's a big world out there.

The L&CPU also have an annual competition/exhibition and we encourage every one to enter this. Keith Richardson organises the entry and he will no doubt be reminding us about it very soon. From the annual, the L&CPU assembles folios, selections of images that are either the best or, sometimes, the most interesting from the images entered.

When we show a folio it's well worth seeing as it shows us the benchmark of the general quality across all the clubs in the L&CPU area. Sometimes we may be impressed, sometimes less so, but the important thing is that it's another way to keep in touch with that mysterious wider world of club photography.

Hi John
I promise that my lips will be sealed this time (maybe).

Your participation is always welcomed Michael!

The biggest problem seems to be the generally poor quality of reproductions from prints. It would be hoped that the original digital files could be sourced to use in the folios. Sadly it became impossible to continue dealing with the actual print boxes as the next destination for the prints was becoming so far away. It was OK when we could just drop them off in Leigh for their next showing.