Some club members are considering going to Oulton Park on Sunday 17th September and Salford Quays on Sunday 24th September. Members are invited to join the group. Further details from Steve.
 
Events offering photo opportunities     (Check individual websites for full details)

15th/17th September Southport Airshow (no Red Arrows this year)
15th/17th September British Superbike Championship Oulton Park
29th Sept/1st October Musical Fireworks Championships Southport
30th/Sept/1st October UK Slalom Canoeing at Tryweryn (Bala)

In addition it might be worth checking the 'What's On' page of Southport P S as there is a comprehensive list of events on there. The link is www.southport-ps.co.uk

Power Boat Racing at Carr Mill Dam, St Helens off E Lancs Road, (check Lancs Power Boat Club website for details of race days)
Oulton Park has motor racing events most weekends
Trentham Monkey Forest (daily)
Chestnut Centre Chapel en le Frith Wildlife Centre (daily)
Manchester Airport Viewing Park
Welsh Wild water Centre Bala (check Slalom UK website for dates)

There are several folk museums within fairly easy reach of Ormskirk that might offer photographic opportunities. All of them have costumed characters in historical situations and if you check their websites you might stumble on some special events.
Beamish...... Durham    www.beamish.org.uk
Black Country Museum....... West Midlands  www.bclm.co.uk
Blists Hill Victorian Town...... Telford     www.ironbridge.org.uk 

Keep checking the Links page for offers of photographic
events, courses and holidays.

Members, new and old, might like to try their luck in some external National Exhibitions. Competing does help you improve your own photographic skills. There are plenty of exhibitions to choose from. Just go to our Links page and click on the link to BPE. Then find the link to the exhibitions page.  
The BPE has its own Crown Awards scheme and acceptances in the exhibitions earn points towards the Crown Awards. 25 acceptances entitles you to the first Crown Award (BPE1*). 
Most exhibitions now accept entries by upload so there are no postage fees to pay, only the entry fees.
Even if you are not successful most exhibitions send all entrants a CD/DVD of all the accepted images.

At the AGM 2014 it was agreed that any image gaining an award in our competitions would automatically be available for external competitions (with the exception being LCPU competitions).

Congratulations to Henry on his installation as The President of The Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union. The event was held on Saturday 25th February and is a fitting reward for many long years of service to the LCPU. The picture shows Gordon Jenkins and Bob Dennis putting the chain of office around Henry's neck.
We wish Henry a very successful and enjoyable time as President of the LCPU.

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Mike Pollitt of Southport P S has just set up a new website and it's well worth a visit.
Mike is the webmaster of the Southport P S site and you can see that his expertise has spilled over onto his own site which you can find at :-
www.mikepollitt.weebly.com
You will notice that like us he is using Weebly as his host.

Scottish Wild Images

Neil McIntyre organizes Wildlife tours in the Scottish Highlands. if you are interested in joining one of the tours you can find details of what is on offer at  the Scottish Wild Images website.
www.scottishwildimages.com


Justphoto
This company deal in photographic equipment. You might like to visit their website.
www.justphoto.co.uk

Wildlife photographer David Boag has been in touch with the club and wants us to publicise his new tutorial DVD called Natural Focus. David is based in the South West, but has lectured to RSPB groups in the north. If you want to know more vist his website :-
www.NaturalFocus.co.uk