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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congratulations to St Andrews Photographic Society member — and club president — Nicola Shepherd. She’s the recipient of this year’s Wilson Quaich, awarded by an external judge for the best single photograph in the society’s annual exhibition, for her photograph titled “Deserted Olive Grove Babarti”. This year’s judge was local photographer Peter Adamson, who’s due […]
Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 St Andrews Flowers and Produce Show: Class 120: Lichen Patterns on a Stone or Rock (Mono): 1st David Ogden, 2nd Joan Riddell, 3rd Richard Cormack. Class 121: Still Life of Gardening Sundries (Colour): 1st Chris Reekie, 2nd Sybill Scott, 3rd Richard Cormack. Class 122: A Butterfly on a Plant […]
