Dec 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
The club has been contacted by The Oxfam shop in Haddington to ask if someone could help – “I have just started as the manager of the Oxfam charity shop in Haddington. I was wondering if anyone in your club could help me… I am looking for volunteers...
Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
A very wide range of topics and images tonight. We had 5 of Bill’s images- I’m not sure if I have actually been in the Orkney museum he showed, or if I have seen his image before at the club. It seemed oddly familiar- whereas I struggled to identify East...
Nov 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Regular piece of their choice from the picture desk. Sometimes good, sometimes inspiring, sometimes moving, always worth a look : Link to The Guardian
Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Fifty seven entries seems like a pretty decent entry for the 2020 Theme Competition, being virtually the same we had in 2019 BC (Before Covid). The judge was Roger Stewart who gave us a very thorough commentary on each image and on the sets of images. I confess I...
Nov 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
When wandering through a museum or gallery, I rarely give much thought to the work that goes into preparing posters and display boards. Particularly in the case of an “amateur” museum staffed by volunteers, I tend to unthinkingly suppose that all that...
Nov 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
10 November 2020. Competition judges often say that a photograph should “tell a story”. This has never made much sense to me. A photograph may record an image lasting a thousandth of a second, which would be a brief tale indeed. Any story the judge makes...
