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Helen Willis LRPS

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Congratulations to club member Helen Willis who today qualified as a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society (LRPS). Helen has been working hard on her distinction panel and chose to enter her images for assessment as prints. For the Licentiate, applicants must show (among other criteria) a variety of approach and techniques but not necessarily […]

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Isle of May Trip

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Wednesday 15th June, and one-by-one a dozen smiling members of St Andrews Photographic Club met up at the harbour in Anstruther for a trip out to the May Isle. Personally I was pleased to leave the clouds behind on my side of Fife, as they had triggered memories of stormy days on the Forth, when all the puffins had been either been out foraging for sand-eels, or forlornly trying to rescue […]

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4th Internal Competition Results

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  • 3502_A-Rose-in-the-Shieling
  • 3604_Turnstone
  • 3002_The-Rosary-and-Key
  • 3119_Dundee-VandA_m
  • 3204_Old-Faithfull

This week the Society held the last of their 4 Internal Competitions. As the competitions this year have had to be held online we have been able to secure the services of judges from much further afield. This time the Society had the pleasure of welcoming the entertaining Gareth Martin from Aberfan South Wales who […]

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Speaker – Grant Bulloch – Wednesday 16th February 2022

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  • Callanish-Sunburst-Isle-of-Lewis-Andrew-Bulloch

The Society meeting on 16th February was a zoom presentation by Grant Bulloch from Edinburghof award winning photographs taken by his son Andrew together with examples of his own work.The father and son photographers held an exhibition in Dundee last year and some of the workfeatured this evening was part of that previous exhibition. Particularly […]

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3 Way Competition – 9th February 2022

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  • Winter Wonderland by Richard Bowden
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The Society meeting on 9th February took the form of participation in the annual Three WayPhotographic battle between Cupar Camera Club, Kinross Camera Club and St Andrews Photographic Society. This well attended event was held on Zoom with the forty five images selected and submitted bythe three clubs were judged by Terry Hewitt from Stockport.The […]

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Speaker – Paula & Guy Davies – Wednesday 15th December

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The Society welcomed Guy and Paula Davies to our last Zoom talk of the year. This couple from North Yorkshire are members of the Stokesley Photographic Society and give Permajet supported lectures around the country. The first part of the presentation was by Guy followed by Paula and it was aptly titled “Double Act 2”. […]

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Speaker – Andrew Moss – Wednesday 8th December 2021

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  • Tour-de-France-2014-Andrew-Moss

Photographic images of Sport can be both dramatic and evocative. This was ably demonstrated by this weeks guest speaker Andrew Moss from Beckenham in Kent with his presentation “He Shoots, He Scores”.  Andrew now acting in a professional capacity has attended a mixed variety of sporting events including minority participation sports (for which he is […]

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Speaker – Tony North – Wednesday 24th November 2021

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Our president Emily welcomed this weeks guest speaker Tony North who hails from Manchester and specialises in Landscape and in particular Macro photography. His talk entitled “ The Art of Macro” was in fact an absorbing and entertaining tutorial on the subject. After introductory remarks he went on to describe in detail his seven Challenges […]

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2nd Internal Competition Winners 2021/22

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  • Drying-Lines-Caroline-MacDonald
  • Jump-About-by-Mathew-Schwartz
  • Roof-Lines-by-Philip-Graham
  • Picture-Window-by-Nicola-Shepherd
  • Yachts-by-Chris-Reekie
  • Barnacles-and-Twine
  • Dawn-Over-City-by-Philip-Graham
  • End-of-the-Line-by-John-Drummond
  • Staying-Safe-by-Stan-Farrow
  • Valley-Road-by-Philip-Graham

Congratulations to the winners of our 2nd Internal Competition judged by Les Loosemore via Zoom. Colour Images:1st Place: “Drying Day” by Caroline MacDonald 2nd Place: “Jump About” by Mathew Schwartz 3rd Place: “Ridge Lines” by Philip Graham Highly Commended: “Yachts” by Chris Reekie and “Picture Window” by Nicola Shepherd Commended: “Barnacles and Twine” by Emily […]

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Speaker – Neil Sneddon Wednesday 11th November – Developing Recovery

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On the 11th we had something completely different from Newport based Neil Sneddon who is a social worker working with addicts in Dundee. His thought provoking presentation entitled “Developing Recovery” was accompanied by a series of black and white images with captions. These were taken by recovering addicts, their family or carers. Neil had handed out […]

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