This weeks presentation was by Rory O`Conner from the Irish city of Cork by courtesy of Zoom which was titled “My world in photography” Seascapes. Rory considers himself to be self taught but took up photography seriously in 2011 when he joined his local camera club. He specialises in seascapes but enjoys landscapes as well […]
As part of our summer program on Zoom the Society had the pleasure of welcoming Les Loosemore from Bridgend in South Wales to give us a wide ranging presentation on his style of photography. In his younger years Les was a footballer, then after this career ended became a referee for many years. To cement […]
This week was Presidents night the last meeting of our winter program. Traditionally the President chooses the speaker and this years President Emily Noakes invited David Keep from London to give his presentation entitled “Underwater Photography”. This was an exotic choice for the members both in pictures and locations. David’s journey began in Phuket, Thailand […]
Another week for members to enjoy a talk on Zoom. The speaker this week was Libby Smith from Carluke a leading light from the Scottish Photographic Federation with her knowledgeable enthusiastic talk entitled Mastering Monochrome. Libby started her career in photography over 25 years ago using a dark room to develop her pictures. Today however […]
The president of the society Emily Noakes welcomed members to the first Zoom meeting of 2021. The evenings talk was a joint meeting with both the St Andrews Photographic Society and Art Club in attendance. She then introduced Mark Holden from the Black Isle who is a renowned Scottish photographer and talented artist as our […]
Professional photographer Niall Irvine from Aberdeenshire was our guest speaker this evening. He was instrumental in setting up “The Scottish Nature Photography Awards” in 2007 and establishing it in 2009 as an annual event. The competition now attracts thousands of entries each year and has expanded into eleven separate categories. He talked us through each […]
This weeks Zoom meeting had as our guest speaker Peter Paterson a Scottish photographer, who specialises in landscapes and still life. As the weather has taken on a distinctly wintery feel, Peters talk was most apt as it was titled “Iceland, Land of Volcanoes and Glaziers”. Stunning vista after stunning vista transported members along the […]
It seemed wholly appropriate that our final speaker of 2020 gave a presentation entitled “My Affinity with Monochrome” after all to many it has been something of a colourless year. The speaker was Les Forrester a highly respected photographer now based in Yorkshire with a delight of architecture and taking fine art minimal long exposure […]
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the last two sessions of the St Andrews Photographic Society`s weekly Zoom gettogethers were visual proof of this. On the 4th we were privileged to have a presentation by the award winning Polina Plotnikova a Russian now living in London. This still life and […]
This week was Presidents Night at the Society. Our retiring President Nicola Shepherd has been in situ for a number of years and is held in the highest esteem by the members as she has been such a progressive driving force for the Society. The President choses the theme of the night and Nicola invited […]
