They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the last two sessions of the St Andrews Photographic Society`s weekly Zoom gettogethers were visual proof of this. On the 4th we were privileged to have a presentation by the award winning Polina Plotnikova a Russian now living in London. This still life and […]
Unfortunately this year due to the on-going situation with Covid 19 we have been unable to display as normal our annual exhibition in St Andrews. We have put together this slide show of our members photographs for you to browse and enjoy. As usual one image was selected as “Best In Show” by a judge […]
Congratulations to the winners of our first internal competition for the 2020–2021 season, expertly judged (virtually, natch) by Malcolm McBeath. Colour images: 3rd place: “Bill Of Sale” by Stan Farrow2nd place: “Where are you?” by Alison Donald1st place: “Lockdown” by Stan Farrow Mono images: 3rd place: “Manitoba Message” by Stan Farrow2nd place: “Goggenheim” by Mike […]
Congratulations to Richard Bowden on winning the inaugural Margaret Coull Trophy with his picture “High Tea”. The competition was judged by Richard Cormack EFIAP DPAGB who himself is an accomplished photographer, holder of several awards for his photography and former Scottish Photographic Federation judge. As a long standing friend of Margaret Coull he felt the […]
The new season started this week with a run through of this years syllabus by newly elected club President Emily Noakes. Due to the on-going Covid 19 issue we have decided to arrange all our meetings virtually this year via Zoom. Being unfamiliar territory we were unsure how successful this would be, but in the […]
14/03/20 – Today St Andrews PS Committee discussed the Covid 19 virus outbreak locally and what precautions we should set in place for our members and visitors. We decided that it was best, given that many of our members are in the “at risk” group, to cancel the remainder of this season with immediate effect. […]
This week the clubs 4th Internal Competition was judged by Gordon Scott. PDI Winners – 1st Alison Smith with ” Geminid over Kirkfell”. 2nd John Drummond with “Skylight”. 3rd Alison Smith with “Full moon at Skogafoss” Mono Prints – 1st Stan Farrow with “Dusky Down” 2nd Helen Willis with “Dun Carloway Broch” 3rd Stan Farrow […]
This week was Presidents Night at the Society. Our retiring President Nicola Shepherd has been in situ for a number of years and is held in the highest esteem by the members as she has been such a progressive driving force for the Society. The President choses the theme of the night and Nicola invited […]
On Wednesday 26th February members were delighted to view the excellent nature photography being undertaken by St. Andrews based nature photographer Abi Warner. Abi has used a camera since she was seven years of age and has studied photography. Her initial nature photography was undertaken in the St. Andrews area in locations she could easily […]
“From There to Here” was the title of the presentation made to members on the 19th February when award winning landscape photographer Neil Barr provided members with an extensive look at his work from the last six years spent exploring and photographing the Scottish Landscape. Having only taken up landscape photography in 2014 as an […]
