Queen’s Park Camera Club

On the night of Thursday 10 June 2010 the QPCC have offered to hold a special open evening for twenty Southside Happenings readers.   Resident expert in stereoscopic photography, Denis Alyshev, who will show images from his travels in Russia, Japan and Scotland all in amazing 3-D and we can browse through the exhibition of members work. Click here to read more.

Art in the Park is a pop up exhibition housed within the Victorian Glasshouses, in Queens Park, Glasgow. Now in its second year, the show will run over the weekend of the 22/23 May 2010. The exhibition forms part of the the Southside Festival, which attracts thousands of people into the park. Queen’s Park Camera Club is taking part in this event.

A festival of community and the street
In and around Westmoreland St, Govanhill. Download a Festival Programme (PDF).

Friday 30 April - Sunday 2 May

Opens Friday 30 April, 6.30pm, with tea and cakes, 126 Calder St. Performances and artworks from 7pm

Continues over Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May
Exhibitions, workshops, music, installations, bike powered scaletrix, gardening, May Day Ceilidh, interactive street spy game, outdoor film screening and much more.

Part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

A quick update on the final Contemporary Group meeting of the year which was held in the club rooms last night.

We were really tested on this one - recreate an iconic photograph. Thanks to everyone who took the time and trouble to take part in this challenging event. We were treated to some of the funniest and most interesting images I have ever seen at the club, so it was a pity that we only had 5 club members participate. The iconic Christine Keeler picture was tackled in completely opposite fashion by Cameron McMurdo and Bob Wark, Paul Cunningham continued his journey down the creative black and white road with an interpretation of an Edward Weston pepper, my own picture was of a Scottish version of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Joe Munro, aided by his skillful wife Marion, produced the most amazing interpretation of the John & Yoko ‘bed’ image. After the laughter had died down following the viewing of the pictures we had a good chat about the respective backgrounds of the shots and everyone discussed their own technique in producing these new iconic images.

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Boab2: Created by Bob Wark. Iconic image of Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley
C. Keeler: Created by Cameron McMurdo. Iconic image of Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley
John and Yoko: Created by Joe and Marion Munro (edible subject). Iconic Image of John and Yoko Lennon by Bettmann
Lunar 002: Created by Iain McLean. Iconic image of Apollo11 landing by NASA
Pepper #1: Created by Paul Cunningham. Iconic image of Pepper #30 by Edward Weston

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So, by popular demand, this theme will run again next year. Hopefully next time we will have enough shots to compile a small set which we can then try and get published.//Iain McLean

This Thursday, 15 April 2010, is the Annual Exhibition of Prints with Richard Bingham, ARPS, AFIAP as judge.

Last week we had the Annual Projected Images Exhibition. Andy Murray won the Best Image Award and the Best Set of Images in the Basic Section. Iain McLean won the Best Image and the Best Set of Images in the Open Section. Congratulations!!!

An experienced Scottish Pro photographer has had his gear stolen from Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh, UK. If you are offered any of this gear or maybe spot it in the small ads or on Ebay you may want to give Martin a call. Details below.

Equipment List Black Camera Bag Incident Number 516
Taken from location of photography at Newhaven Harbour 27/3/10
Reported 27/3/10 SA 63OSA Elaine Allan Drylaw Police Station

• Digital Bag - LowePro Commercial AW Black
• D3 / serial no:2023880
• 70 - 200 / serial no: 371505
• D700 / serial no: 2122402
• 24 - 70 / serial no: 201377
• sb 800 / serial no: 2836420
• sb800 / serial no: 2283720 (cabled)
• Quantum 1+ P709
• 45mm PC-E serial No: 201333
• 2 X Pocket Wizard Plus
• 1 X pocket Wizard Plus Transmitter
• SC29 Flash Cable
• Voigtlander 40mm Ultron / 9811745

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On Thursday, 8 April 2010, is Annual Exhibition of Projected Images. Judge is Simon Allen, MPAGB, EFIAP.

Our speaker this Thursday, 1st April 2010, is George Wilkie, a photojournalist based in Glasgow where he also lectures in photography. He will show a selection of his prints.

Susan Castillo has her first solo show in The Gallery@Mussel Inn, opening on Thursday 1 April. The exhibition is dedicated to her father who passed away a year ago, and aims to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Susan Castillo Deep, Photography 1 April - 5 May 2010 The Gallery@Mussel Inn 157 Hope Street Glasgow G2 2UQ Open Mon-Thur 12noon-2.30 and 5-10pm Fri-Sat 12noon-10pm Sun 5-10pm This will be one of the last photographic exhibitions at Mussel Inn. The Gallery is moving on to a new venue.

John Wells FRPS is travelling from Lincoln this week to speak at three Scottish Camera Clubs. He will be at Queen’s Park Camera Club on Thursday 25th March 2010 and will show a selection of large prints.
John is a member of Gamma photoforum (based in Bradford) and lectures throughout the UK. He is sponsored by Permajet. Visit www.johnswells.co.uk to see some of his varied and creative work.

On Thursday 18th March 2010 Zul Bhatia, Manager at RSPB Lochwinnoch and member of Paisley Colour Photographic Club, will present ‘The Wildlife of Tanzania’. You will find more information about Zul at www.naturetrek.co.uk

US National Archive, a government organization, made a large part of their photographic artifacts available online on Flickr website. It was interesting to discover that all images can be used without any written permission since the copyright law is no longer applied to them. The archive contains thousands of photos including 220 landscapes taken by Ansel Adams and photos of Civil Was taken by Mathew Brady. Click on the image below to visit the US National Archive photostream on Flickr.

We have managed to secure a twinning arrangement with the Camera Club of Ottawa, which will probably take effect sometime around the end of this season. No details have been worked out yet, but, the committee will discuss this further at the March meeting and we will be firming things up soon afterwards.

Members are invited to contribute ideas as to what sort of things we might exchange with them.

If you would like to find out more about the Ottawa Camera Club, their website is www.cameraclubottawa.ca

//Tom Doherty

Iain’s pictures were published in April edition of Practical Photography magazine. The article features images taken at last years Tiree Wave Classic windsurfing event on the beautiful island of Tiree. Click on the image to see a full size page.

The speaker this Thursday, 25th February 2010, is Roy M. Smith DPAGB. Roy is a member of Ayr Photographic Society and is named on the SPF Roll of Honour. He is no stranger to Queen’s Park, having most recently given excellent judgment at one of last year’s competitions. This week he brings his slide presentation with the enigmatic title ‘ABC to XYZ’.

Queen’s Park Camera Club is now on Facebook! Click on the image below to visit the QPCC page. If you are not a facebook user then you will need to register in order to see this page, send messages, publish news, upload your images etc. Please contact the QPCC group admin if you have any questions or problems with registration.

The January meeting of the Contemporary Photography Group took place last night at the club and was well attended.
We were treated to stories of Twin Otter plane landings in Egypt, idyllic holidays in the Canadian wilderness, chasing birds on a Scottish Highland trip, kooky Japanese dogs not to mention an overdue meeting of old friends as well as a stressful and doomed career as a football photographer. Each picture had a story to tell and they were as diverse as they were interesting.
Bob ran a short powerpoint on the creation of the iconic Christine Keeler photograph and, with a quick change to the advertised schedule, Mike Greenwood amazed us with pictures of his Dad and Uncle sailing off the British coast in the 1930’s. Nobody present had seen the shots before and they provided an insight into the days before the internet, mobile phone and computer games distracted us.
Denis provided a warming cup of tea and biscuits at half time - thanks to all who attended.
// Iain McLean