Events

Photographic Society Open Morning – everyone welcome!

 Are you interested in photography? Do you need some help with Photoshop? Have you taken any interesting photos over the summer holidays? Or are you just confused by the camera manual?

 Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society (WGPS) is running an Open Morning, incorporating a photography competition on Saturday 25^th September 2010 from 1030am to 1pm at Wilmslow Guild, 1 Bourne Street, Wilmslow SK9 5HD. Refreshments will be available.

 All ages are welcome to attend and meet some of the WGPS Members for friendly advice at a Photography Surgery. Bring along an unmounted photo (any size from 6” x 4” up to A4) to enter the competition to win exciting prizes!! You can also try your hand at taking Portraits using proper studio lights.

WGPS Member Alan Angel (standing) shares his portraiture expertise with other Members (photo by Bill Salkeld)

To reserve your place, email the WGPS Publicity Officer on wgps@hotmail.co.uk.

Click here to download the press release about this event.

Wilmslow Photographers Win National Competition!

Members from Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society (WGPS) are celebrating their 1^st place win in the Digital SLR User Magazine’s Battle of the Clubs competition and a £1000 Canon voucher.

Each month, camera clubs in the UK submit their top 3 images as entries for this competition which is sponsored by Canon. Topics range from landscape, wildlife and sport to colour, abstract and architecture. Judges then review every entry and score each of the clubs’ images based on the picture impact (creativity, colour and mood), technical quality and composition. Each club’s entry can gain up to a maximum of 45 points per round.

The 39 point win for Wilmslow was for the macro round and the results were announced in the September edition of the magazine which is currently on sale.

The winning images are “Poppy” by Dave Griffiths, “In a whirl” by Neil Weston and “Droplets” by Kevin Lee.

External Competitions Secretary, Jonathan Rew-Dixon is delighted, “The news about our recent win is a great boost for Wilmslow Guild, the Photographic Society and all our members. It clearly demonstrates the creativity, technical skills and ability of our group – we’ll certainly enjoy deciding how to spend the £1000! Let’s hope we can continue to build on this success for the rest of this competition.”

These and other images from members of the WGPS are available to view via the Facebook group “Wilmslow Guild Photographic Society”.

Click here to download the press release about this success.