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Coming soon – our 2024-25 programme

Here we publish details of all our visiting speakers, plus a Quick Calendar, linking to a fuller look at each evening of the season.
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 7.30pm, at the AK Bell Library, unless noted otherwise.

If you’re new, details on how to join are on our membership page.

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George Berrie

From Beirut – with love, lust, and bullets

18 Oct 23
George was a successful businessman until, one day, he realized his work was killing him. This is the story of how he quit his job, bought a camera, rented an apartment in Beirut, learned photography, learned photoshop, and found a new purpose in life – leading to a digital art exhibition in Stirling University.  

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Graeme Youngson

Urban photography – with a dash of Chiarascuro

25 Oct 23
Graeme Youngson is a very accomplished street photographer from Aberdeen. Of particular interest is his use of the ‘chiarascuro’ technique to produce very dramatic high-contrast black and white images.

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Andrew Allan

Scotland’s Night Sky

01 Nov 23
Andrew says: “The talk is about Scotland’s night sky and how to photograph it. Throughout the year there are many different celestial events and celestial bodies to view and photograph. I’ll give some guidance to help photograph the night sky and how to predict events like Northern Lights in Scotland. There is some videography and photography from abroad such as Iceland and Arctic Norway where I travelled to and hunted mind-blowing shows of the northern lights.”

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Damian Shields

A Passion for Scottish Landscapes

22 Nov 23
Damian is one of Scotland’s best known and most highly regarded Landscape photographers. He has been highly placed in every Scottish Landscape Photographer competition for the last decade and is a veteran of more than 15 solo exhibitions from London to Aberfeldy. In between photographing stormy landscapes, he is deputy photo editor for The Herald and Times Group in Glasgow. Not to be missed.

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David Queenan

Mountains, seashores, and cities

24 Jan 24
David Queenan is a freelance graphic designer and landscape photographer based in Central Scotland. He is a winner of the Scottish Nature Photography award and runner-up in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year. In addition to his well-known Landscape work David will also show some of his beautiful Urban and Architectural images. 

Omar Shamma

The Polar Regions: The Last Wilderness

28 Feb 24
Omar will speak of his recent visits to Spitzbergen and Antarctica . 

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Further information about speakers and topics will be posted here as details become known.

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Quick Calendar

04 Oct 23 President’s Night	11 Oct 23 Member’s talk/ Workshop	18 Oct 23 Speaker: George Berrie	25 Oct 23 Speaker: Graeme Youngson
01 Nov 23 Speaker: Andrew Allan	08 Nov 23 Member’s talk	15 Nov 23 Competition: Digital	22 Nov 23 Speaker: Damian Shields	29 Nov 23 Member’s talk/ Workshop
06 Dec 23 Competition: Prints	13 Dec 23 Holiday	20 Dec 23 Holiday	27 Dec 23 Holiday
03 Jan 24 Holiday	10 Jan 24 Competition: Digital	17 Jan 24 Member’s talk/ Workshop	24 Jan 24 Speaker: David Queenan	31 Jan 24 Competition: Prints
07 Feb 24 Competition: Digital	14 Feb 24 Member’s talk/ Workshop	21 Feb 24 Competition: Colour prints	28 Feb 24 Speaker: Omar Shamma
06 Mar 24 Competition: Digital, AV	13 Mar 24 Member’s talk/ Workshop	20 Mar 24 AGM	27 Mar 24 End of season event

04 October 2023

President’s Night

PPS President Ian Mackay will welcome new and returning members as an introduction to the Society and to the forthcoming season.

11 October 2023

Member’s talk/ Workshop
Upstairs, in Sandeman Room

Bring and Share

Bring some of your own images, as prints or on electronic devices, to share and discuss in small groups

18 October 2023

Speaker’s Night

George Berrie – From Beirut – with love, lust, and bullets

George was a successful businessman until, one day, he realized his work was killing him. This is the story of how he quit his job, bought a camera, rented an apartment in Beirut, learned photography, learned photoshop, and found a new purpose in life – leading to a digital art exhibition in Stirling University.  

25 October 2023

Speaker’s Night

Graeme Youngson – Urban Photography – with a dash of Chiarascuro

Greame is a very accomplished street photographer from Aberdeen. Of particular interest is his use of the ‘chiarascuro’ technique to produce very dramatic high-contrast black and white images.

Hand-in: Main Cup

Hand-in: Four-Way Competition

01 November 2023

Speaker’s Night

Andrew Allan – Scotland’s Night Sky

“The talk is about Scotland’s night sky and how to photograph it. Throughout the year there are many different celestial events and celestial bodies to view and photograph. I’ll give some guidance to help photograph the night sky and how to predict events like Northern Lights in Scotland. There is some videography and photography from abroad such as Iceland and Arctic Norway where I travelled to and hunted mind-blowing shows of the northern lights.”

08 November 2023

Member’s talk
Upstairs, in Sandeman Room

A conversation with David Hay

Desert Island Pics: We have asked David to pick a selection of images from his own collection, by well-known photographers, and from the PPS archives, What makes these pictures stand out from the crowd and what can we learn from them?

Hand-in: PKM Trophy

15 November 2023

Competition: Main Cup
Judged by Mary Gibson, DPAGB LRPS

22 November 2023

Speaker’s Night

Damian Shields – A Passion for Scottish Landscapes

Damian is one of Scotland’s best known and most highly regarded Landscape photographers. He has been highly placed in every Scottish Landscape Photographer competition for the last decade and is a veteran of more than 15 solo exhibitions from London to Aberfeldy. In between photographing stormy landscapes, he is deputy photo editor for The Herald and Times Group in Glasgow. Not to be missed.

29 November 2023

Member’s talk/ Workshop
Upstairs, in Sandeman Room

Member’s Presentations

Top of the bill for this week’s three talks we have David Hay, with Photographing Modern Architecture at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. It’s an extraordinary city, and we know from the other week that David has an eye for the shot.
Before him, we’ll hear from Graham Robb, on Pop-up Pics in Perthshire. Graham and John set up a mini studio in a pop-up shop in Aberfeldy, offering portrait photography.
And Martin Samson on Scottish Tower House Castles – photographing various tower houses, and regaling us with many tales and legends attached to them.
In the middle, Wol Gilbraith will get us ready to build the print stands we need for next week’s PKM Trophy mono print competition.

06 December 2023

Competition: PKM Trophy
Judged by Rob Davis

03 January 2024

Christmas holidays

Hand-in: Grant Cup

10 January 2024

Competition: Grant Cup; click for
– Scoring Slip
– Online Voting Form – will be available on 10 Jan 24
– Test voting form – practise your online voting here

Hand-in: Nan Borthwick Salver
Hand-in: Peter Rourke Salver

17 January 2024

Workshop
Ground floor, in the former cafe. Please note: this is a new venue for us. Enter the library via the usual West Car Park door, turn left and the room is along the corridor on the left.

Portraits with flash/ Still Life Photography/ Miniature Figure Scenes

This evening, we will have presentations from Graham Robb, Vicky McNamara and Tom Ryan, showing us three completely different types of photography! No need to bring your cameras in for this one; it will be demonstrations only. An evening to look forward to!

24 January 2024

Speaker’s Night

David Queenan – Mountains, seashores, and cities

David Queenan is a freelance graphic designer and landscape photographer based in Central Scotland. He is a winner of the Scottish Nature Photography award and runner-up in the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year. In addition to his well-known Landscape work David will also show some of his beautiful Urban and Architectural images.

31 January 2024

Competition: Nan Borthwick Salver
Competition: Peter Rourke Salver
Judged by Chas Sievewright

Hand-in: Colour Rosebowl

07 February 2024

External Competition: SPF Portfolio

We’ll take a look at the high-scoring images entered by clubs around Scotland in last year’s Portfolio competition. The images have been provided by the Scottish Photographic Federation. David Hay has kindly agreed to provide a commentary to accompany the photos. Hopefully, this evening will give you a good idea of the types of photos that we will be looking for when we submit our entry for this year’s Portfolio competition.

14 February 2024

Members’ Talks Night
Ground floor, in the former cafe. Enter the library via the usual West Car Park door, turn left and the room is along the corridor on the left.

We will have 3 presentations this evening: John Boyd will talk to us about printing photos. Should we do it ourselves or should we use a commercial printer? Raymond Leinster will discuss his involvement with a range of sporting organisations. He will highlight the considerations and best practices to be mindful of when engaging in sports photography. Tim Haynes will look at Practical Computational Photography. He will talk to us about post processing, in his own inimitable way!

21 February 2024

Competition: Colour Rosebowl
Judged by Piers Hemy

28 February 2024

Speaker’s Night

Omar Shamma – The Polar Regions: The Last Wilderness

Omar will speak of his recent visits to Spitzbergen and Antarctica.

Hand-in: Dall Cup
Hand-in: Simpson Cup

06 March 2024

Competition: Dall Cup; click for
– Scoring Slip
– Online Voting Form
– Test voting form – practise your online voting here

Competition: Simpson Cup; click for
– Scoring Slip
– Online Voting Form
– Test voting form – practise your online voting here

13 March 2024

Members’ Talks Night
Ground floor, in the former cafe. Enter the library via the usual West Car Park door, turn left and the room is along the corridor on the left.

Novice Night

This evening will give our new and/or novice members a platform to share the progress they’ve made in their photography through our Cultivating Novice Photographers programme

20 March 2024

AGM for 2023-24.

An agenda for the AGM has been sent to all members. After the AGM is complete, we plan on holding a ‘Bring and Share’ session. Please bring in some prints or digital images and we will split into small groups and talk about your images. There will be an experienced member in each group to lead the discusssions.

27 March 2024

End of season dinner and prize-giving. 7pm for 7.30pm. Details will be sent out via a newsletter.

Invitation to Non-members

Hi, if you have an interest in photography, why don’t you come along to the first two evenings this season, with no commitment, and see whether the Society is an organisation that you might like to join. Make yourself known to one of the committee members and we will look after you. Also please note that we are offering tickets to non-members, for a small charge, for two of our evenings when we have two of the UK’s top photographers visiting us – Mark Hamblin and Alex Nail. See below for details – 30th October 2019 and 5th February 2020.

Programme

All meetings are at 7.30pm in the A K Bell Library, York Pl, Perth PH2 8EP.
The Soutar Lecture Theatre is the venue on all nights except those marked ‘Sandeman’ when we will meet in the Sandeman Room upstairs (same entrance) but may then split up into other areas of the Library First floor. See the ‘Finding us’ page for full venue information. Meetings conclude around 9.30 – 9.45pm

Oct 9 President’s Night and Welcome. Soutar Theatre (downstairs). President Malcolm Lind will introduce himself and will welcome you all to a new season at Perthshire Photographic Society. During the evening, committee members will also introduce themselves and will provide you with information about this season’s programme and competitions. Registration will take place during these first few meetings and membership cards will be issued. Please remember to bring a cheque book or cash to pay for your membership! Please see our Information Page

Oct 16  Workshop evening – Sandeman Room (upstairs) – Image critique. The main aim of this first workshop is for us all to meet each other and to make new members feel very welcome. We will split into 5 or 6 groups and will look at a number of images during the evening. Each table will have one of our more experienced members who will act as a coordinator. We would ask each of you to bring with you 3 images, either as prints or on a laptop/tablet. Groups will move around the tables during the evening and we will offer advice on what makes a good image. If you don’t wish to bring in any of your photos, that’s okay! We want you to enjoy the evening!

Oct 23 – Bernard Longley ARPS and Keith Fisher ARPS DPAGB. ‘How to Prepare an Audiovisual Presentation.’  Bernard and Keith, visiting us from Lancashire, are experts and judges in the field of audiovisual work and they will show us how to put together an effective audiovisual presentation. They visited Dundee PS five years ago and their presentation has encouraged members there to get involved in video production. During this tour of Scotland, Bernard and Keith will also be visiting Dundee PS and Milngavie & Bearsden Camera Club. So, if you wish to do well in our audiovisual showcase in March, you had better be here this evening!

Nov 6 – Faye and Trevor Yerbury. This evening we are delighted to welcome two photographers who are highly respected both in Scotland and internationally. Trevor Yerbury has received many accolades during his career as a portrait photographer and he has exhibited his work all over the world. He is passionate that his work is simple and elegant with a classic, sophisticated look. Faye Yerbury has received many awards for her portraiture, wedding and avant-garde work, and for her classical nudes. She has also held exhibitions in many parts of the world. You can find out more about Faye and Trevor here: https://www.yerburystudio.com/about/?doing_wp_cron=1562073987.7022271156311035156250 • HAND IN for FOUR-WAY BATTLE (See details on competitions page)

Nov 13  Workshop evening – Sandeman. Portraits/Still Lifes. One of the main aims of this evening is to allow members to work together and to give you the chance to get to know each other. If you have ever wondered how to make your portraits or still lifes stand out, you should not only rely on good technique, but you should always aim to be creative as well. This workshop is designed to allow your imagination to take flight and to allow you to create something quite memorable on the night! The format for this evening is completely different to that of our previous portrait/still life workshops. You will work in small groups and will be presented with a challenge! Some props will be available. You may wish to bring your own. The work that you produce will be presented at the end of the evening. The only thing that you need to bring with you is a phone camera or a small compact camera. And your imagination!

Nov 20  Main Cup Competition – 3 digital files. Your choice of subject. (See Competitions Page)
• HAND IN for PKM TROPHY  (See details on Competitions Page)

Nov 27 Four Way Battle Competition between Perth, Dundee, St Andrews and Glenrothes, hosted by Perth

Dec 4  Workshop evening – Sandeman. Practical Skills – Malcolm Lind will lead a station on multiple exposures and blending images, Mike Bell, Wol Gibraith and Graham Robb will run Lightroom stations (Graham’s station will be on monochrome) and Jimmy Herd and Davie Moran will demonstrate mount cutting for printed images. Bring images with you on USB sticks or SD cards. More details on our Facebook page.

Dec 11  PKM Competition – Up to 3 monochrome prints. Your choice of subject. (For definition of ‘monochrome’ see Competitions Page)
• HAND IN for GRANT CUP  (See details on Competitions Page)

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BREAK

Jan 8  Grant Cup Competition – Up to 3 digital files. The theme for this year is “Isolation”. (See details on Competitions Page). We will be judging this competition ourselves and so you might find it useful to have a pen and paper with you to make notes as we show the images.
• HAND IN for NAN BORTHWICK SALVER and PETER ROURKE SALVER  (See details on Competitions Page)

Jan 15  Members’ Night – Sandeman.  This evening we are giving you the chance to show us some of your photos! It’s meant to be a relaxed and enjoyable evening, with no formal talk or script required. Digital images will be shown on a large monitor and you are also welcome to bring along prints. These have been really successful evenings during the past two years! If you would like to be involved, please contact the programme secretary David Moran (daviemoran1@gmail.com). There is also a second Members’ Night on 11th March. This evening we are pleased to welcome Jimmy Herd who will show us some slides (remember those!), Sandie Smith talking about travel photography and Graham Robb showing us his expertise at taking photos at football matches. Malcolm Lind will round off the evening by discussing entries for the Birnam exhibition which takes place during September 2020 and which has the theme ‘Unexpected’. This promises to be a really interesting evening!

Jan 22 – Niall Benvie. ‘Greater Than 2 Seconds.’ Niall Benvie has worked in environmental communications for many years as a photographer, designer and writer. He has published 6 books and is a columnist for ‘Outdoor Photography’ magazine. He believes that the biggest challenge that photographers face today is retaining the audience’s attention for more than a couple of seconds. Even extraordinary images of, for example, diving kingfishers or shows of northern lights, barely earn a second glance. Niall’s presentation looks at some of the innovative techniques that he uses to catch the viewer’s eye and to hold their attention. This presentation should appeal to photographers of all genres who are looking to improve their photography. You can see some of Niall’s work here: https://niallbenvie.photoshelter.com/index

• HAND IN for COLOUR ROSE BOWL  (See details on Competitions Page)

Jan 29 Nan Borthwick and Peter Rourke Competitions. These are print competitions. (See details on Competitions Page)

Feb 12 Colour Rosebowl Competition (Sandeman) – Up to 3 colour prints. Your choice of subject. (See details on Competitions Page)

Feb 19 – Stan Farrow.  ‘Ebay, Cardboard and Milk Bottles – the Making of an Exhibition.’ This is an intriguing title for what promises to be an intriguing evening! Many of you will have met Stan Farrow before, either when he last visited us in 2014 or at photo societies in Dundee or St Andrews. He is hosting an exhibition of his work at the Discovery Point Café Gallery in Dundee from 13th July until 17th October 2019. Stan is a creative digital photographer and he often uses software to create digital art with layers of texture. As his title suggests, this talk will be about how he prepared for his latest exhibition. He will be showing us lots of prints from the exhibition and may also use some projected images. Here is more of Stan’s work: https://stanfarrowphotography.co.uk/f255452460

Feb 26  Scottish Photographic Federation Portfolio 2019 evening. The SPF Annual Portfolios is a competition featuring Monochrome Prints, Colour Prints and Digital Images. The competition is open to clubs and individuals and takes place in May each year. The event is judged by three judges and the highest scoring entries form the ‘Annual Portfolio of Accepted Prints and Projected Images’ for the year. Portfolio shows of the accepted entries are then made up on a disc for clubs to show on a club night. So, this evening we will be showing you those projected images and prints that came top in the competition in 2019. Along with the images you will see the scores that they were awarded, the title of the photo, the name of the photographer and the name of the club that they represented. Once again, David Hay has very kindly agreed to host this evening. You won’t want to miss his authoritative, witty and entertaining commentary that accompanies the images!

• HAND IN for DALL CUP (SELFIE COMPETITION)  (See details on Competitions Page) (or email in by Feb 29th)

• HAND IN for SIMPSON CUP (AUDIOVISUAL COMPETITION) (See details on Competitions Page) (or email in by Feb 29th)

Mar 4 Selfie Competition (Dall Cup) and Audiovisual Showcase. (description based on last year – subject to change) This evening will be split into two different activities.
We start with a Selfie Competition. A ‘selfie’ is a picture of yourself taken by yourself using a handheld camera/phone camera. Selfie sticks are allowed, but tripods and remote controls are not allowed. You can enter up to 3 photos, for digital projection, but please rate them in order of importance e.g. A, B, C etc, in case we have to restrict the number of photos that we show. More information is available here: Competitions Page. The audience will be the judges and will vote for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places, Highly Commended and Commended. The Dall Cup will be awarded to the winner of this competition.
The second part of the evening will be an Audiovisual Competition. You are invited to submit an audiovisual presentation of up to 5 minutes duration. Full details of the rules are on the internal competitions page and you must abide by these rules. The Simpson Cup will be awarded to the winner of this competition .

Mar 11  Members’ Night – Sandeman.  This is your chance to show us some of your photos! It’s meant to be a relaxed and enjoyable evening in the Sandeman Room, with no formal talk or script required. Digital images will be shown on a large monitor and you are also welcome to bring along prints. This evening we welcome David Stanghon who will show us some of his work, including macro photography, and Kate Slattery, who will show us some of her photos. Duncan McNab will demonstrate how he puts together his audiovisual presentations and Raymond Leinster will talk about his two main photographic interests, wildlife photography and cycling event photography. Once again, this promises to be a very entertaining evening! The programme for the evening has been coordinated by programme secretary David Moran (daviemoran1@gmail.com).

Mar 18 AGM / Member talk. POSTPONED. In an effort to combat coronavirus, the AGM is postponed until further notice. The first part of the evening will be devoted to our Annual General Meeting. There should be time later for a member presentation, or an auction of equipment, if required.

Mar 25  End of Season Dinner with prize-giving. All PPS members and partners are welcome. POSTPONED. In an effort to combat coronavirus, this dinner is postponed until further notice.