Please keep an eye on our Syllabus. One of the major contributors to the new exhibition in the photographic gallery at the National Galleries Scotland – Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh will be visiting our club in November. Watch this space.
The Scottish Photographic Federation is holding a PAGB Awards Advisory Workshop in Dunblane on 18th November. It’s ideal for Club members who are looking for a new challenge by pursuing either a BPAGB, CPAGB, DPAGB, EPAGB, or an MPAGB distinction. All attendees, whether a participant or an observer, must book a place through the link issued to Club members last week.
Our thanks to Andy S Hayes ARPS EFIAP/g DPAGB PPSA, our guest judge last Thursday night for Monthly Competition No. 1 and the first round of this season’s Knockout competition. Competition Judges and Lecturers give of their time and expertise voluntarily. We are always grateful to them as we rebuild our club following the pandemic. We have dispensed with ‘ A ‘ and ‘ B ‘ leagues this season so have a Monochrome Print league, a Colour Print league and a Projected Digital Image league. The leagues are now compiled from the number of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Highly Commended and Commended images achieved during the season. We hope this move away from a ‘ points based ‘ system will give visiting judges more freedom to encourage originality and inspire the creativity of our members who are no longer dependent on being awarded points.
Monthly Competition No. 1
Monochrome Prints
1st: Stairwell – Agnes Clark
2nd: Curlew – David Jones
3rd: Balinese Lady – Elaine Woodford
Highly Commended: French horns – Graeme McPhee
Commended: Yacare Caiman with Fish – David Jones
Colour Prints
1st: Twisted History – Catherine Anderson
2nd: Three Snowdrops – Agnes Clark
3rd: The Red Heart – Agnes Clark
Highly Commended: Black Mount Lochan – Gordon McCuaig
Commended: Full Beak – Elaine Woodford; Water Hyacinth – David Jones; Early Morning Swim – Catherine Anderson; Northern Cardinal Female – David Jones
Projected Digital Images
1st: Bamburgh Sunrise – Catherine Anderson
2nd: Flower Lady – Elaine Woodford
3rd: L’Hemisferic-Valencia – Jim Falconer
Highly Commended: Lacy Blues – Nancy MacArthur; Really – Douglas Ross
Commended: A Simple Grass Seed Head – Charles Woodford; Purple Clematis – Agnes Clark; Living statue two – Douglas Ross; A pair a parakeets – Michael Cox; Pondering – Nancy MacArthur; Mountain Hare – Paul Morgan; Distracted Glance – Douglas Ross
Monthly Competitions are a great learning opportunity. Hopefully some of the judges comments, not necessarily on a photographers own image, can be taken and applied to our own photography.
Take care.