Queen’s Park Camera Club

Mike Greenwood who is a member of our camera club will give a talk on Thursday, 11 February 2010. Mike will look at the development of popular photography from 1860 to 1950’s.  He will illustrate the presentation with examples from his family albums and references to family history from internet and other sources and also share some interesting stories.

On Thursday 4th February 2010 the speaker is David Walker CPAGB, a member of Kilmacolm Camera Club. David’s talk is entitled ‘Glasgow’s Hidden Treasures’ and has been constructed over a number of years using slides he has taken during ‘Open Doors’ weekends.

Watch exclusive footage from the first 3D film of the aurora borealis and find out more about the expedition to capture the phenomenon. Click on here to watch a short video (~3 min).

Opening of Scottish Photographic Circle exhibition “Twenty Ten” will take place on Thursday 4 February 2010 (5PM - 8PM) at The Gallery @ Mussel Inn, 157 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 2UQ. It’s worth visiting!

The Scottish Photographers’s website was re-designed and is now online. Click on the logo below to visit.

Scottish Photographers is an informal network of independent minded photographers, which aims to encourage the practice of photography as a means of personal expression as well as an art form; there is currently a membership of over two hundred including amateurs, professionals, students and academics from Scotland and beyond.

Thursday’s presentation will be the 2009 SPF Portfolios of prints and projected images, recorded on disc. Laurie Campbell’s talk is re-scheduled for Thursday 18th March 2010.

Glasgow South Side photographers Denis Alyshev (showing his 3-D Images), Sara Bannerman, Paul Cunningham, Tom Doherty, Mike Greenwood, Michael MacLean, Iain McLean, Gordon McMann, Cameron McMurdo, Kenny Shields and Becky Wilson share the space this month.

The Gallery has now been open for two years and this month we are offering two separate free events. Welcome to join us on: Thursday 7 January for the Preview, between 5-8pm, Wine & Canapés and Thursday 21 January for Denis Alyshev’s 3-D Show at 7pm, followed by seafood dinner in the restaurant with a special VIP discount.

Read more and book tickets for the 3-D Show on www.mussel-inn.com/gallery

Backy Wilson who is a member of Queen’s Park Camera Club made a couple of 2010 calendars “The Underwater World” and “Captivating Scotland”. The underwater calendar is a collection of underwater images taken in various areas of the Red Sea and the Scottish one is a selection of  images taken mostly around Loch Lomond and Glencoe. The cost of the calendars is £10 plus p&p. 20% of the profit from the sale of each calendar will go to Yorkhill Children’s Foundation. Click on images below to order calendar from Becky’s website.

 

Monday night’s meeting was attended by 10 people who recieved an insiders view into the world of 3D computer animation. John McQuillan, a Programme Leader in Computer Animation at the University of the West of Scotland, made time for us and his enthusiasm was infectious. John illustrated his talk with clips from the earliest cartoons right up to modern 3D animated films and we were also treated to some fantastic work by some ex-pupils who have now moved on to employment with animation studios around the UK. Some technical questions from the floor ended the night and the feedback from those present was very positive. Our thanks goes to John as the CPG’s first ever visiting lecturer.

Doreen Boogert’s exhibition “From Scalpay to Zahara” at Mussel Inn Gallery (Glasgow) 3 Dec 2009 - 6 Jan 2010.

The gallery has been open for two years and we celebrate the anniversary with a fine art exhibition of monoprints. You are cordially invited to join us for a glass of wine and a few seafood canapés at the preview on Thursday 3 December, between 5 and 8pm, in the mezzanine of The Mussel Inn, 157 Hope Street, Glasgow G2 2UQ.

Prints will be available to purchase and take away on the night.

On Thursday 3rd December 2009 we welcome from Forres the outstanding landscape photographer Ian Cameron. He will be using medium format slides, and digital images. For a preview visit www.transientlight.co.uk

Images (c) Ian Cameron

As part of St Andrew’s Day, many of Scotland’s visitor attractions will open for free or offer a discounted entry price. Castles, museums, gardens and abbeys across Scotland from Orkney to Jedburgh will take part. Click on image below to read more.

This Thursday, 12th November 2009, our speaker is the professional photographer Robert Burns. Robert, who was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, is well known for his high quality monochrome prints, particularly his portraits of artists and musicians. He is a member of Scottish Photographers www.scottish-photographers.com and of The Glasgow Group www.glasgowgroup.co.uk, and has visited Queen’s Park on previous occasions. Robert has indicated that he would like to see some work by QPCC members, so feel free to bring anything along on which you would like his opinion!

As a late teenager working as a clerk in a Glasgow shipping office David bought a camera and photographed Glasgow at the same time as the late Oscar Marzarolli. David is now a well established independent documentary film maker whose career in film started when he worked with Oscar and Martin Singleton in their film company OGAM. These images were never printed until 2006 when he commissioned Robert Burns to make the first 25 images for a very successful exhibition in the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy. This exhibition includes the original 25 images and another 20 images printed for the first time. David’s documentary films are shown regulatly on BBC Scotland television, notably his sensitive film about a Glasgow Hospice and “The Big Noise” about the formation of the children’s orchestra in the Raploch Housing Estate in Stirling.

Private View Friday 13th November 2009 6PM-8PM at the RGI Kelly Gallery, 118 Douglas Street.

When Margaret Watkins left New York in 1928 to visit her aunts in Glasgow she disappeared from the history of photography. She had been a prominent photographer in the USA and had exhibited internationally. Although her early work has been exhibited in New York and Glasgow this exhibition includes a selection of work made in Glasgow between 1928 and 1938. The work which she made after coming to Glasgow is now printed for the first time, forty years after her death. It has been printed archivally on traditional fibre paper using chemicals no longer freely available.

Robert Burns was commissioned to edit and print the work by the owner Joseph Mulholland.  After deciding on a suitable paper Robert formulated a warm print developer which he thought would suit the images. Robert will be our guest speaker at QPCC in December 2009.

Private View at the Hidden Lane Gallery, Argyle Street, Glasgow,
Friday, 6 November 2009 @ 6.00PM to 9.00PM

On Thursday October 29th Lindsay Robertson will give his talk, ‘Photographing the Landscape’. Lindsay is the photographer who managed to bring the recent Ansel Adams exhibition to Edinburgh and exhibited his own work alongside. To appreciate what we have in store, visit his website at www.lindsayrobertson.com Lindsay will have with him digital images, a selection of fairly large prints, and an Ansel Adams original.

This is the annual Eric Watt Memorial Lecture. Appropriately, Eric was well known for his high quality monochrome prints.

On Thursday 22nd October the speaker will be Nadin Dunnigan LRPS CPAGB LMPA. Nadin is a professional photographer specialising in contemporary wedding and lifestyle photography, and she is also a member of Bathgate Photography Club. Although her talk is entitled ‘German Travels’ we understand that it is not a travelogue! You can find more information about Nadin at www.nadindunnigan-photography.co.uk

Opening on Monday, 12th October 2009 6-8pm, Long Gallery, Tron Theatre. Exhibition runs 13th October– 13th November.

‘Sonnets from Scotland’ is a photographic journey throughout the landscapes of Scotland, showing recognisable locations such as Skye and Glencoe re-interpreted.

The series attempts to question the depiction of Scottish landscapes and our relationships to them, by introducing a human element into these images. Boyd presents Scotland reduced to a series of cinematic set pieces, questioning a traditional collective Scottish longing for an idealised picturesque representation of the landscape.

In depicting these romanticised setting with the addition of a lone figure, Boyd’s work recalls that of Anselm Kiefer’s ‘Besetzungen’ series which sought to question nationalist impulses, and the 19th century paintings of Casper David Friedrich which sought to promote them. The exhibition is also influenced by Scottish photographers such as Hamish McMillan Brown, who depicted Scotland in the style of the sublime using nature to create vast dramatic spaces often dominated by natural features, reflecting 18th century attitudes to wilderness.

‘Sonnets from Scotland’ draws its name from an early collection of the Scots Makar (poet laureate) Edwin Morgan’s poems, someone who has had a great influence on Boyd’s work.

The exhibition will also include a recent shot taken from Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in London, to be auctioned for Yorkhill Children’s Hospice.