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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am delighted to report that St Andrews PS has had it’s best result ever in the SPF Digital Championship. In the Interim Digital Championship this afternoon we came 2nd overall in the Ian Bowie trophy with 294 points, Dumfries CC were 1st with 298 points. 36 clubs across Scotland competed and six out of […]
To the theme of mindfulness in photography the societies thought provoking presentation this week was by Ken Scott with its title “Joy of Seeing”. Ken from Brighton, with a background in Psychology, is by profession a photographer who holds workshops both at home and in Europe being best known for his landscapes and the different […]
