Emily Noaks warmly welcomed out first guest speaker of the winter program Andy Hall. Residing in Stonehaven he titled his talk Decisive Moments – the Art of Photography. A member of his local Camera Club Andy is a well known and respected and published Scottish photographer of landscapes and abstracts. After a lifetime in teaching […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
