If you’re new, details on how to join are on our Information page.
Further speakers and topics will be posted here as details become known.
All meetings this coming season will be held on Zoom – Wednesdays at 7.30pm, unless otherwise noted.
07 October 2020
AGM for 2019-20
Hand-in: Four-Way Competition
14 October 2020
President’s Night
PPS President Malcolm Lind’s will speak of how the images and rewritten tales from around Rattray have been inspired by one lesser known tiny glen, Glendams
Hand-in: Main Cup
21 October 2020
Members’ Talk – Mike Bell: Almeira
Mike will talk about the Almería region of Spain, and cover seascape and long exposure photography, including the use of tilt and shift lenses and graduated filters
28 October 2020
Members’ Talk – Tom Ryan: Photographing cities, at night, in the rain
04 November 2020
Competition: Main Cup
Judged by David Sadler
11 November 2020
Members’ Talk – Roben Antoniewcz: A selection of Roben’s favourite photos
Hand-in: PKM Trophy
18 November 2020
Members’ Talk – Wol Gilbraith: Finding Neowise
Stumbling around in the dark, with a mixed bag of images, personal stories, beginner’s techniques, tools for planning, and maybe even singalong favourites
25 November 2020
Members’ Talk – Graham Robb: Lockdown music videos: sacred and profane
“Right now there is almost no recognisable music industry anywhere in the world. These are my efforts to keep some kind of flame burning for the future.”
30 November 2020 (Monday)
02 December 2020
Competition: PKM Trophy
Judged by Dougie Allan
09 December 2020
Members’ Talk – Alan Craig: Macro
Having started with an instamatic in the 1960s, and progressed through a Rollei B35, to an SLR, further upgrades enabled me to better photograph flowers and other details which the B35 couldn’t handle, and this allowed me to develop my interest in macro.
16 December 2020
Members’ Talk – Ian Mackay: Travel and landscape photography
“Breaking away from traditional wide-angle landscape photography, I will look briefly at colour space, colour grading, cropping and mini-panoramas, before looking further afield to Iceland, China, and beyond.”
23 December 2020
Christmas holidays
30 December 2020
Christmas holidays
Hand-in: Grant Cup
06 January 2021
Competition: Grant Cup; click for
– Scoring Slip
– List of Image Titles
– Online Voting Form
Hand-in: Nan Borthwick / Peter Rourke Salvers
13 January 2021
Members’ Talk – Tim Haynes: Landscape photography, technique and thoughts
PLUS
Members’ Talk – Graham Robb [to be confirmed]
20 January 2021
Members’ Talk – Stewart Riddick: Street photography
27 January 2021
Competition: Nan Borthwick Salver
Judged by Gill Hunt
Competition: Peter Rourke Salver
Judged by Gill Hunt
Hand-in: Colour Rosebowl
03 February 2021
Members’ Talk – Sandie Smith: Landscape, people and place – imagining an island
Selecting works for a photographic exhibition
10 February 2021
External Competition: SPF Portfolio
From the DVD produced by the SPF, we look at the high-scoring images as entered to last year’s Portfolio competition from clubs around Scotland
17 February 2021
Competition: Colour Rosebowl
Judged by Neil MacGregor
21 February 2021 (Sunday)
24 February 2021
Members’ Talk – David Stanghon: Lumix and Me
David will chat about his involvement with photography since the early 60’s to 2021. This briefly includes standard 8mm movie stuff, onwards. Also a short video about where he lives and immediate surroundings.
Members’ Talk – Tom Ryan: Images for PR
“In 2018 I worked on an EU project in the Georgian Institute for Standards and Metrology in Tbilisi. On my last visit they discovered I was a photographer and asked me to take pictures of their laboratories for PR purposes. What followed was a time-trip back to the days of the Soviet Union.”
03 March 2021
Members’ Talk – Malcolm Lind: Buzzart Dykes
A very short look at the making of a photographic essay concerning the archaeology and ecology of Buzzart Dykes
Members’ Talk – Annette Forsyth: Tryptych
Annette will show us how to create a triptych template in Photoshop, using images taken on her trip to Morocco in February 2020
Hand-in: Dall / Simpson Cups
10 March 2021
Competition: Dall / Simpson Cups
17 March 2021
Members’ Talk – Kate Slattery: Colour
Kate will talk about Josef Albers book – Interaction of Colour
Members’ Talk – Dave Moran: Alpaca – animal to fibre
Dave will share some of his AV slideshows
24 March 2021
AGM for 2020-21
31 March 2021
End of season, Prizes, etc