Club News
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024
CPS 8 x 8 Trophy Competition
The competition was held at Christ Church, on Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 and was judged by Jonathon Vaines LRPS CPAGB AFIAP.
Thursday, Oct 10, 2024
Plan A - Slides
Matt Cooke has very genorously shares his slides from the talk he gave on 8th October 2024.
Wednesday, Sep 25, 2024
Derek Howes, EPAGB
A year or so ago the PAGB Awards for Photographic Merit Team (APM) launched two new levels for the PAGB Accreditations; the first, Badge, was for the beginners (BPAGB). It is assessed at the same level as the Credit but only 7 prints are required with a total of 125 points to achieve the pass.
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024
Colchester v Ipswich
The 29th April was the annual CPS V Ipswich competition at Ipswich this year, Judged by Julie Hutson
Ipswich won the print competition by a tiny half point margin, but CPS came back well on the PDI competition beating Ipswich by 6.5 points and thus won the overall competition by 6 points.
Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023
Essex Challenge Trophy
Congratulations to Pat Frewin for coming first in the Essex Challenge Trophy with her image - “Rape Fields - Essex”.
Sunday, Oct 22, 2023
CPS 8 x 8 Trophy Competition
Last Tuesday evening Colchester Photographic Society hosted their annual “8 x 8 Inter-Club Competition”, so called because eight clubs are invited to compete each offering up 8 prints from 8 individual club members.
Saturday, Sep 16, 2023
Vic Hainsworth's 50th Anniversary
This season marks a very special anniversary as it is Vic Hainsworth, our Club Presidents 50th year as a member of Colchester Photographic Society. The first night of our 2023/24 season saw a celebration by the club of this acheivement.
Thursday, Jun 15, 2023
CPS v Wetzlar Competition
Update - 15th June 2023
Just in are the return match results CPS v Wetzlar, the round judged at Wetzlar by Ralf Keil
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
CPS Members Questionnaire 2023
It’s nearly the end of the 2022/23 season and it seems like a good time to ask people to share their thoughts on a couple of topics that the club committee would value your opinions on.
Monday, May 1, 2023
The East Anglian Federation of Photographic Societies Annual Exhibition 2023
Our Chairman and Treasurer receiving their awards at the opening of the 2023 EAF Exhibition on Saturday afternoon.
External News
PAGB - 
East Anglian Federation - December 2024 Edition
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Monday, Nov 18, 2024
Halstead Twin Towns Competition
Report on Halstead “Twin Towns” PDI Competition - Thursday 14th Nov 2024
The competition took place at the Methodist Church in Halstead.
Saturday, Oct 19, 2024
Photographic Alliance of Great Britain - 27th Inter-Club Print Championships 2024
CPS qualified to enter this event by finishing in the final at last years event. There were 38 clubs qualified to enter one of which withdrew, leaving 37 participants.
Saturday, Mar 30, 2024
Mersea Island Photographic Society Challenge 2024
Update 28th March 2024
We have had the last round of this years competition held at Tonbridge and judged by Paul Parkinson CPAGB.
Thursday, Mar 14, 2024
EAF Print Championship at Fulbourn - 10th March 2024
The championships were held at Fulbourn on Sunday, there were 19 clubs taking part.
This years results were:-
Position Club Score 1st Pico 192 (won tiebreak) 2nd Beyond 192 3rd Norwich & DPS 179 4th Bury St Edmunds 178 Melbourn 178 6th N Norfolk 177 7th Cambridge 176 Bishops Stortford 176 9th Chelmsford 173 Stevenage 173 11th Colchester 171 Bottisham & Burwell 171 13th Welwyn Garden City 170 Ipswich & DPS 170 15th Biggleswade 165 16th St Ives 164 17th Clacton 162 Loughton 162 19th Maldon 158 Best Print was “Hold that pose” a studio glamour portrait by Peter Baker of Cambridge.
Thursday, Mar 7, 2024
Braintree Shield Competition - 7th March 2024
Judge: Pauline Martindale
The mono print competition was held at Bradwell Village Hall, eight clubs took part. Six prints per club
Sunday, Mar 3, 2024
EAF Awards for Photographic Merit (APM) Advisory Day
AWARDS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MERIT (APM) ADVISORY DAY supported by the PAGB
Foxton Village Hall, Hardman Road, Foxton, Cambridge, CB22 6RN Sunday, 1st September 2024, 10.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday, Feb 17, 2024
EAF PDI Championship - 11th February 2024
The championships that were held at Fulbourn, the result has been amended as Norwich entered 6 nature images, one more than the permitted! Have had the score for that image deleted from their total dropping them from 3rd to 9th position.
Saturday, Feb 10, 2024
PAGB GB Cups
CPS came 25th in the open category and 27th in the Nature category, about 60 clubs nationwide took part in the event.
Monday, Jan 1, 2024
The East Anglian Federation of Photographic Societies Annual Exhibition 2024 Entries
This event wil take place at the Wingfield Barns in Suffolk from Saturday 4th May 2024 with the official opening by the President followed by the presentation of the awards at 2.00pm and a full screen projected display of the accepted PDI images. The exhibition closes at 1.00pm on Sunday 19th May, is well worth a drive up there.
Friday, Nov 17, 2023
Halstead Twin Towns Competition
Report on Halstead “Twin Towns” PDI Competition - Thursday 16th Nov 2023
The competition took place at the Methodist Church in Halstead.