Every season, our penultimate meeting is the President’s Night, wherein the society’s president offers up a surprise, typically in the form of a special guest. This year was no exception, with our president, John Cuthbertson, bringing in the excellent Barrie Spence, a very award-winning portrait photographer from Bathgate. Barrie’s talk, titled “An Evening With,” offered […]
This week saw our first monthly Zoom talk which was given by Kevin Pigney with a superb presentation titled “Passion for Wildlife”. Kevin hails from Burwell on the Suffolk / Cambridgeshire border. He only took up photography later in life as a hobby just over 7 years ago and is now an established professional photographer. […]
A warm welcome this week was extended by Chris Reekie to the members attending the society’s first internal competition of the season. We were privileged to have judge Alan Gaulthorpe, a former president of the S.P.F. who’s a knowledgeable and well-known Scottish photographer, hailing from Aberdeen. Alan regaled us with humorous anecdotes along with serious […]
This week the society had its first talk of the season that was on Zoom*, rather than in-person. Our guest speaker was the gifted Claire Carter, a nature and landscape photographer who now lives on the fringes of Fort William but is originally from Shropshire. Her talk, titled “Studio Botanical and Macro Photography,” admirable showed […]
Members of the Society last week enjoyed an evening away trip to Perth. The Perthshire Photographic Society were hosts and extended a warm welcome to their guests for the annual 4-way competition with neighbours Dundee, St Andrews and Glenrothes. Unfortunately, Glenrothes were unable to participate this year but this did not make the competition any […]
Last month the Society held its first internal competition and the entries were up to their usual high standard. In the competitive PDI section 3rd place went to Mathew Schwartz with Angel, 2nd was Frank Riddell with Jelly Fish and in 1st place was Chris Reekie with Catch. The Mono Prints results went 3rd to […]
The Society held its first Zoom meeting of winter program with Erica Oram from Sheffield as the speaker. Her entertaining talk was titled “The View From Here”. As a busy healthcare worker she fits her photography around work and family. As a photographer she likes to push herself out of her comfort zone by experimenting […]
