Club News
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025
CPS v Wetzlar Competition 2024
Colchester Round
The Colchester round of the competition was held over Zoom on the 10th Dec 2024, and was judged by Tim Morland.
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.
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 2023
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 - March 2025 Edition
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Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025
EAF Print Championship at Fulbourn - 16th March 2025
Wow, didn’t we do well on Sunday! One never expects to come out on top, and we certainly didn’t. So, it was a shock when it was officially announced. There had been murmurs over the lunch break that we may have won, but you don’t count your chickens until they have hatched.
Thursday, Mar 6, 2025
Braintree Shield Competition - 4th March 2025
Judge: Harold Mousley
The competition was held at Bradwell Village Hall and was judged by Harold Mousley.
Eight Clubs took part, six prints from each club. The event was won by Chelmsford CC, Colchester PS were second.
Monday, Mar 3, 2025
EAF Club Print Championship at Fulbourn - 16th March 2024
16th March 2025, start 10.30am
The Fulbourn Centre (Townley Memorial Hall), 31 Home End, Fulbourn, Cambridge CB21 5BS.
There will also be a display of last year’s PAGB ‘Masters of Print’ Exhibition.
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2025
Mersea Island Photographic Society Challenge 2025
Update 25th February 2025
The Competition is now complete with the last three rounds at North Norfolk, Dalston and Dingwall.
Thursday, Feb 20, 2025
EAF PDI Championship 2025
The 2025 EAF PDI Championship was held at Fulbourn and there were 23 clubs taking part, rather fewer than usual this year. Sport and Nature images scored very well.
Thursday, Jan 2, 2025
The East Anglian Federation of Photographic Societies Annual Exhibition 2025
This year the Exhibition has moved to a new venue at The Apex Gallery, Charter Square, Bury St. Edmunds, IP33 3FD, running from Saturday 3rd May 2025. The official opening will be at 2.00pm by the Federation President, Nick Akers, ARPS BPE4*, followed by the presentation of awards and a full-screen-projected display of the accepted PDI images. The Exhibition closes at 1.00pm on Sunday 18th May. With this new location we are hoping that more people will attend and visit the exhibition, with more on offer around the area.
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.