Congratulations to Richard Bowden on winning the inaugural Margaret Coull Trophy with his picture “High Tea”. The competition was judged by Richard Cormack EFIAP DPAGB who himself is an accomplished photographer, holder of several awards for his photography and former Scottish Photographic Federation judge. As a long standing friend of Margaret Coull he felt the […]
The new season started this week with a run through of this years syllabus by newly elected club President Emily Noakes. Due to the on-going Covid 19 issue we have decided to arrange all our meetings virtually this year via Zoom. Being unfamiliar territory we were unsure how successful this would be, but in the […]
14/03/20 – Today St Andrews PS Committee discussed the Covid 19 virus outbreak locally and what precautions we should set in place for our members and visitors. We decided that it was best, given that many of our members are in the “at risk” group, to cancel the remainder of this season with immediate effect. […]
On Wednesday 26th February members were delighted to view the excellent nature photography being undertaken by St. Andrews based nature photographer Abi Warner. Abi has used a camera since she was seven years of age and has studied photography. Her initial nature photography was undertaken in the St. Andrews area in locations she could easily […]
“From There to Here” was the title of the presentation made to members on the 19th February when award winning landscape photographer Neil Barr provided members with an extensive look at his work from the last six years spent exploring and photographing the Scottish Landscape. Having only taken up landscape photography in 2014 as an […]
What do the outrageous American rock star Marylin Manson and our own more staid Prince William have in common? The answer is they have both had their photographs taken and published by our latest speaker the entertaining Tom Haresign from Largo. Commercial Photography was the title of his talk. Originally from Doncaster where he trained […]
The Society last week had as a guest speaker Kit Martin whose talk had the intriguing title, Cyanotype and other Darkroom Experiments. The Cyanotype process to create photographic images was first used in 1842 but was adopted as a copying technique now known by the term “blueprint” as used in technical drawings. This is because […]
The Scottish Photographic Federation (SPF) Digital Championship was held in Stirling on Sunday 17th November where St Andrews Photographic Society achieved a fantastic result, finishing joint 4th alongside Carluke CC in the competition. In total 28 clubs from across Scotland were competing on the day. Dumfries Camera Club finished 1st, Ayr Photographic Society 2nd and Eastwood […]
Huge congratulations to the members of St Andrews Photographic Society on winning the BEST COLOUR CLUB – THE HENRY COATES TROPHY in this years Scottish Photographic Federation (SPF) Annual Portfolio competition. The three Judges for 2019 were – Christine Widdall from L&CPU, Richard Speirs from NCPF and Dave Symonds from the SPF. A total of […]
Congratulations to Chris Reekie LRPS of St Andrews PS for achieving a score of 15/15 for his image “Snow Fence” at the annual Scottish Photographic Federation (SPF) Print Championship in Stirling. 3 judges score each print with a minimum score of 2 and a maximum score of 5 in this well attended event. 31 camera […]
