Congratulation to the winners of the 2nd internal competition: PDIs 1st – ‘Letter from Yakima’ by Stan Farrow 2nd – ‘Damson Dragonfly’ by Chris Reekie 3rd – ‘Time Passes’ by Stan Farrow Mono 1st – ‘Vintage Wine’ by David Wallace 2nd – ‘The Breakwater’ by John Drummond 3rd – ‘Cup and Jug’ by Stan Farrow Colour 1st – ‘Dark Angel’ […]
Julie Close became interested in photography in her home town of Doncaster during the 1970s. She especially enjoyed the technical process of the dark room and developing her own photographs. Having to find employment she moved to Bridge of Earn hospital, where she was involved in all aspects of medical photography, principally, ophthalmic, dermatology, and […]
Exploring The Photographic Collection of the NTS Antonia as Curator for Edinburgh and the East of Scotland covers 17 properties. Some with have a history of photographic images. Antonia has been funded by the Morton Family Trust to archive, digitalise and document these collections. Her talk gave an introspective look at a world gone by […]
Ken Kennedy as a young man was smitten by the night sky. His first attempts at capturing an image of this beautiful manifestation above us was not very successful, not surprising, everyone has to start somewhere. Ken purchased a bellows f8.8 camera, it was primitive, and film was restricted. With a camera propped up and […]
Congratulations to the winners of our 1st internal competition this year: PDIs 1st: ‘A Shaft of Sunlight’, Dave Vallis, 2nd: ‘Gemmas Robe’, John McNairn 3rd: ‘Crail Harbour Reflections’ Keith Proven Mono 1st: ‘Attic Light’, John McNairn 2nd: ‘Manhattan Bridge’ Alison Donald Joint 3rd: ‘Natures Flashgun’, Billy Donald Joint 3rd: ‘In Memorium’, Stan Farrow Colour 1st: […]
The quote “F8 and be there” is attributed to Weegee (Arthur Fellig) who was a famous street photographer during the 1930’s, 40’s and beyond. In the late 1970s Alan was bitten by the by the journalistic bug on coming across a copy Photojournalism: Life Library of Photography. Alan was set on a career in the […]
We were honoured to have as our speaker Dr Hamish Brown, Scottish mountaineer, lecturer, photographer, writer, poet and international mountain guide. With over 30 plus books to his name and what he calls, Munroitis, an incurable disease, there was no doubt an entertaining talk was in store. Hamish certainly did not disappoint, what he described […]
Chas Sievewright a member of Perth Camera Club spoke to members of his experiences in acquiring the knowledge and growing his long exposure skills, mainly in black and white, with the a colour image into the mix here and there. It was in 2013 and armed with a Canon 5D he started out on his […]
St Andrews Photographic Society is holding it’s annual members exhibition, which is free and open to all, on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th November. As part of the exhibition, Children are invited to take part with their own special section. All they need to do is hand in an 8×6 un-mounted print, of any subject, to St Andrews […]
Practical nights offer a great insight into the methodology of how photographers approach the many different aspects of creating an image. This evening three of our members each gave an illustrated talk on their preferred workflow in Photoshop and Lightroom. Up first was Nicola Shepherd. Nicola led us through step by step the art of […]
