Queen’s Park Camera Club

In 1909 a remarkable project was initiated by Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. His mission was to record - in full and vibrant color - the vast and diverse Russian Empire. Here, with his story, is a selection of his amazing century old full color pictures. Click on the image below to read more.

Keith Ingham excavated a portfolio of photographs not seen for 30 years which are now on show in Glasgow only a few hundred yards from where they were taken. These photographs of the Scotstoun and Whiteinch Gala of 1979 show a happy family and community occasion from a time that is receding into history.

The main event was the parade with stalls and displays in Victoria Park on the Saturday afternoon. Other events in the week leading up to it, including the primary school concert at Scotstoun West Parish Church, the table tennis tournament at the Neighbourhood Centre, an open day at the Cripple League workshop and the concert at Scotstoun East Parish Church, are also represented in the show.

A contemporary element to the show is created with new drawings by Steve McQueen, a Glasgow artist, of scenes and people around Scotstoun and Whiteinch today. The exhibition takes place at 1397 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow  [Junction Victoria Park Drive and Dumbarton Road]. Continues to 6 June, Thursday to Saturday, 3PM-6PM.

//Thanks Sandy Sharp for provided information

UK’s Best Photographer 2009
This exciting Nikon-sponsored competition gives you the chance to test your photographic skills and compete for a share of £13,500 of Nikon equipment. We need to recruit 50 photographers to take part in a series of challenges, with the overall winner taking home a superb Nikon D700 outfit, as well as having the opportunity to spend a day with a Nikon-touting professional photographer. Closing date is 3 July 2009. For more information, click here.

Fujifilm Extreme Challenge
Win a Fujifilm FinePix F200EXR – and then test it for the magazine in London. We’re looking for you to upload your best image based on the theme ‘Extreme’. The photographers who upload the four best images will be invited to London in July to collect their prizes and then test them for a feature in the magazine. Fancy a fantastic compact and a weekend in London? We’ll need your entries by June 19. For full details, click here.

Nick Holmes shows his exhibition “Sea Margins” in the Mussel’s Inn gallery in Glasgow 4 June - 1 July 2009. Welcome to the opening on Thursday 4th June 2009 (5PM - 8PM). The address is The Gallery @ Mussel Inn, 157 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 2UQ. For more information please visit Mussel’s Inn website at http://www.mussel-inn.com

Some images from the Awards Presentation and Social Evening, held in the clubrooms, to mark the end of another successful year of the club’s activities. All the awards were presented by the club’s President - Tom Doherty.

One of Iain McLean’s photographs has been chosen to be featured in the NUJ’s 2009 ‘Photography Matters’ exhibition in London. The panel - which included NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear, who made the final selection - were highly impressed with quality of images submitted. The exhibition debuted at the National Uninon Journalists Photography Matters Conference on May 18th, London.

Iain said:“My commission from Renfrewshire Council to record the creation of a bridge part for the town of Paisley took me to Bo’ness, near Grangemouth in Scotland. There I found Ricky Forrest, a Heavy End Moulder with Bo’ness Iron Company. During the commission I noticed this stunning light and positioned Ricky and a shovel in the frame to give an interesting portrait.”

On Sunday 10th May, a party of 21 club members took a boat trip to the Isle of May, at the mouth of the Firth of Forth.  After a week of appalling weather, the group assembled at Anstruther harbour to be greeted by the sun. We sailed from Anstruther in fine conditions and so it stayed as we enjoyed about 3½ hours ashore in the company of a wide range of Scottish seabirds and other wildlife.

Among the photo opportunities were colonies of puffin, gannets, razorbills, guillemots and shags.  The surrounding waters are inhabited by large numbers of grey seals, and the island itself proved to be a place of great interest with its jagged cliffs, rugged grasslands and its scattering of evidence of human occupation. All who went had an enjoyable – and productive - time. The day was rounded off nicely with fish suppers in Anstruther before heading home to view our photographic hauls.

Images (c) Alistair Watson & James Cadden

Iain McLean, who is a member of the club’s Contemporary Photo Group updated his personal website with images which are part of a club project recently completed covering the re-generation of the Pollokshaws area in Glasgow. Despite the area suffering it’s second mass demolition in the past 50 years, Iain tried to portray the area as he sees it - vibrant and colourful. All 30 A3 sized photographs will be exhibited in Pollokshaws Library from Saturday 30th of May until Saturday 13th of June. After the exhibition Iain will give all of the pictures away free to local residents. The people featured in the portraits will receive their own pictures, and the landscapes and detail shots will be posted on flat surfaces around the area with a note explaining to the viewer that he/she is welcome to take the print as a gift.

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The association Grains de Beauté - Promotion aims, in France as well as abroad, to develop the promotion and the distribution of original photographic work notably by the members of the association by means of public exhibitions, reproductions and publications. The association will look for, collect and put at the disposal of member artists material, financial, logistical and other types of aid necessary for the creation and distribution of photographic work and organise communal action with regards to editors or distributors of photographic work. Participating in all exhibitions, shows, events, and all operations connected to the aims, here outlined, and more generally to promote photography and art in all its forms.

Sandy Sharp who is an independent photographer and president of Scottish Photogrphers published his new book “Winter Landscapes”. Please click on the image below to browse pages. You can even order a printed copy!

When the giant Ravenscraig Steelworks was closed and dismantled in 1992 there came into being one of ‘the largest brown field sites in Europe’.

These monochrome landscape photographs were made in a few short winter days in 1999, at the end of yet another century. Although there are hints of the former industrial site there are also resonances with other times and places, with another world. Indeed the exhibiton of a larger body of work shown in Motherwell Heritage Centre in 2003 and in Street Level Photoworks in 2004, was entitled ‘Another World’.

Sandy Sharp

Anne Crabbe FRPS is our speaker this Thursday, 26th March 2009. She is traveling from her home in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, to judge and speak at Edinburgh PS on Wednesday before joining us at Queen’s Park Camera Club on Thursday. Anne is a member of the RPS Contemporary Group and of Scottish Photographers. For ease of transportation she has copied her prints for digital presentation and we can look forward to seeing some very interesting work. For a preview visit www.annecrabbe.co.uk

A change has been made to the published programme for Thursday 12th March. David Anderson is unable to be with us, but we can look forward to welcoming Mike McDonell who will give an illustrated talk on ‘The Red Kite Project’.

On Sunday 1st March 2009 club members enjoyed an outing to the Loch Lomond Bird of Prey Centre. 13 members attended, for the most part it stayed dry, and the centre were very helpful in ensuring we got as many good photo opportunities as possible. Those who attended all had a very productive session and we now look forward to seeing some fine ornithological portraits in the near future. Members will have a chance to enjoy and to share some of these images at the Projected Image Group meeting on 24th March 2009.

Image (c) Alistair Watson

Good news! At the Projected Image Championship at Airdrie (on Sunday, 15 Feb 2009) QPCC made the final (top 8 of 27 participants). This was quite an achievement for the Club - the first time in several years that we have made the final against fairly stiff opposition. The eventual winners were Dundee Photographic Society, with runners-up Dumfries. Our average score was 11.2 out of 15, which represents a very good standard. Thanks and congratulations to all members who made their work available to the club for this event and to the ACE Group whose work in planning our entries and selections made our success possible. This follows our successful foray into the SPF Print Championship in November and gives us an excellent platform to build upon for future events.

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Be inspired by photography spanning three centuries - this week Ray McKenzie, Vice-convenor of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography will give an illustrated talk. Ray is no stranger to Queen’s Park Camera Club. He has spoken at a meeting of the Scottish Photographic Circle in our rooms, and more recently has researched the work of our own late Eric Watt for an article on Eric newly published in the January 2009 edition of the Society’s magazine.

Anne Sutcliffe FRPS AFIAP will be travelling from Solihull next week to visit four Scottish Camera Clubs. She will speak and show her prints at Queen’s Park on Thursday 12th February. You can enjoy a visit to www.annesutcliffe.com for a preview. Anne is sponsored by Fotospeed - there’s a link on her website.

On Sunday (1 February 2009) afternoon 17 of the club’s members met up for a ‘wander’ by the city cathedral and into the necropolis. The venue was challenging given the bitterly cold conditions, yet quite a number of those who attended stuck it out until darkness began to fall before heading down to the warmer climate of a local coffee house. It should be interesting to see what images emerge from the visit. It is anticipated that members might bring along their shots to show at the next projected image group evening. It should make for an interesting session.”

Robert Burns is exhibiting images made at the Appleby Jazz Festival between 2004 and 2006.  All the images were made on a 49 year old Rolleiflex 2.8F camera and printed digitally. The exhibition will be on during the Southport “Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend” from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th February 2009.

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