Big thanks to last night’s speaker, Rachel Nordstrom, photographic collection manager at St Andrews University, for her insightful talk focusing on the origins of photography in Scotland. Her talk focused especially on the Rossie Priory Glass Plate Negative Collection acquired by the university in 2014 from an auction house in Yonkers, New York. The archive features items […]
Over 200 people visited the St Andrews Photographic Societies Annual member’s exhibition in St Andrews Town Hall. Lawhead pupil Connor Mackay took first place with his picture titled ‘Winter in the Garden’; 2nd was ‘Car’ by Emily Wallard, aged 8, from Lawhead school; and 3rd was 15-year-old Maggie Milne from Madras College with her image […]
The former secretary of the St Andrews Photographic Society, David Ogden, was nominated by our club and recently received the prestigious award of being made part of the SPF’s Roll of Honour. On behalf of the club — big congratulations to David.
This year’s 4-way competition between Perth, Dundee, St Andrews and host Glenrothes was held this past weekend, and the winner (drumroll) … was St Andrews. Big congratulations to all who submitted work, as well as to Chris Reekie for taking the top mark in the colour category with ‘Waiting for the fish’ and John McNairn the […]
The scheduled speaker for Wednesday 07/12/2016, Billy Currie, has had to reschedule. Our very own club member, Stan Farrow, will take his place with a new lecture titled: “Art, Photography and Creativity”. My thanks go to Stan who was happy ‘slot in’ at short notice!
Location: St Andrews Town Hall Days: Friday 25th & Saturday 26th November — 10:00am-4:00pm both days Selected Highlights: Friday 25th November Food Demonstrations by The Adamson Restaurant Haydays Art & Leisure Saturday 28th November Food Demonstrations by the Sassy Coconut Haydays Art & Leisure Judging of Kodak Cup Children’s Photographic Competition Hand in Friday 25th […]
Congratulations to the winners of our first internal competition of the year. Here are the winning images: PDI Mono Colour
The results for the St Andrews & District Horticultural Photographic Competition are as follows: Section 120 B&W: ‘A garden in winter’. 1. Richard Cormack. 2. Jan-Karel Querido. 3. David Wallace. Section 121 colour: ‘Blooms in a rockery’. 1. Frank Riddell. 2. Richard Cormack. 3. Joan Riddell. Section 122 colour: ‘Varigated leaf/leaves’. 1. Chris Reekie. 2. […]
The next 2016–2017 “year” of the St Andrews Photographic Society kicks off on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 14, then runs most Wednesday evenings until late March. We’ve also posted the programme online for easy perusal. For anyone who’s interested in photography: Please come along. The club is open to all, regardless of photographic experience, and starts at 7:15 […]
Hand-in for the annual St Andrews and District Horticultural Society will be September 23 at 6 p.m. Photography Prize money in all classes in this section: 1st £8 2nd £5 3rd £3 The Kingsbarns Challenge Trophy Classes 120-125 All classes will be for single pictures in card mounts but without frames. Maximum size of mount 40 cm […]
