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 […]
The Society held its first Zoom meeting of winter program with Erica Oram from Sheffield as the speaker. Her entertaining talk was titled “The View From Here”. As a busy healthcare worker she fits her photography around work and family. As a photographer she likes to push herself out of her comfort zone by experimenting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dawn S. Black Photography (dawnsblackphotography.com) The River Dee Project was the subject of the most recent zoom meeting for members who received a presentation by former professional photographer Dawn Black who is now based in Stonehaven. Dawn’s professional work was undertaken with partners in the Netherlands where her specialisation was in architectural and interior photography.On […]
The Societies talk this week “Galapagos, a little world within itself” was by retired architect Brian Anderson a Fifer from Newport on Tay but now living on the Wirral. He is a much travelled photographer who describes himself as an adventure tourist. His travels have taken him from the Artic to the Antarctic and many […]
The speaker at the weekly meeting of the Society this week was Chris Rickard on the subject of underwater photography in Scotland. Chris is a keen diver who has completed some 1500 dives mainly in Scottish waters and at the McDuff Marine Aquarium where he works on a part time basis. Members were introduced to […]
“Never Underestimate an old woman with a camera” was the title of this weeks Zoom presentation by Sally Sallett. The title was really intriguing from a lady originally from Kent but now living in Castleford in Yorkshire who joined the camera club in nearby Wakefield in 2012. She is not only very proficient with a […]
