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Passion For Wildlife: Kevin Pigney

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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. […]

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The End of Summer

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The summer is slipping away. As the nights draw in, cue the resumption of St Andrews Photographic Society meetings. We’ll be kicking off our 2024–25 season on Wednesday, 11th September, 7:15p.m. for 7:30p.m., at the Art Club in town. All are welcome. See our syllabus (programme) page for everything we have in store for the […]

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Results: Annual Exhibition 2024 at Craigtoun Park

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The club would like to offer a huge thanks to all of the visitors who came to our Annual Exhibition at Craigtoun Park this past weekend, 20–21 July. We had lovely weather all weekend, the venue was great and proved very popular with both club members and visitors. There were two trophies awarded at the […]

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Upcoming Annual Exhibition 2024 at Craigtoun Park

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Great news: This year’s St Andrews Photographic Society annual competition is running in the marquis at Craigtoun Park, from July 20-21 (Saturday to Sunday). This is the first annual exhibition we’ve been able to run since the great unpleasantness; it’s wonderful to be able to do so again. The exhibition opens on the Saturday morning […]

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Margaret Coull Trophy Winner 2024

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This year’s winner of the Margaret Coull Trophy is Neil Taylor, with his image of “Ant on a Flower.” Pictured is Neil being awarded the trophy by this year’s judge, Mike Martin, a naturalist from Anstruther who’s a keen birdwatcher, specializing in photographing the rock pipits that can be found scrambling over the rocks at […]

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Results: 1st Internal Competion (2023–24 Season)

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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 […]

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Studio Botanical Photography With Claire Carter

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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 […]

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