Queen’s Park Camera Club

Queen’s Park Camera Club holds the annual exhibition in Shawlands Arcade (Glasgow) on Saturday, 30 August 2008. The best images taken by club members during last season will be shown in the shopping center. The exhibition will be on from 10AM till 4PM. The Shawlands Arcade shopping center is located in Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, G41 3RS. The map is here.

2007 exhibition in Shawlands Arcade

To help new club members to learn about the club’s life, QPCC committee decided to produce the Welcome Pack. It includes essential information about club’s activities, special interest groups and other information that new members will find useful. We would like to thank Kenny Shields, Sara Bannerman and Alistair Watson for their work on design and producing the Welcome Pack. Please click on the image below to download the electronic version (PDF, 1.5 Mb).

Click on the image to download PDF (1.5 Mb)

A brief history of Queen’s Park Camera Club is now available on the website. Please click here to read. Special thanks to Alistair Watson who is a member of Club’s Committee for the research and collected information.

Dear QPCC members, i’m pleased to announce that the new syllabus for 2008/2009 season has been uploaded to the website and is available here . The season starts on Thursday, 4th September 2008.

In the mid-1950s, Glasgow camera clubs - ’snapping’ everyday scenes of people and places - created a unique photographic survey of the city. A selection of their innovative work returns to the People’s Palace. For some, they are a trip down memory lane; for others, they offer a welcome opportunity to see the city in bygone days. Exhibition is open until Monday 29 September 2008. Free entry. Please click on the image below to visit glasgowmuseums.com website.

The big event takes place on Saturday 28th June at Queen’s Park. Prior to this the Carnival Procession will leave from Shawlands Academy. Moss Side Road at 12 mid-day to arrive at Queen’s Park at approximately 12.45pm. We feel sure that the South Side Festival caters for everyone. From the wee ones to the big yins. Just check out www.southsidefestival.co.uk web site for full activities.

QPCC members took part in the World Pin-hole Day. Thanks for going to all the trouble of taking and submitting the pics! Iain uploaded pictures on behalf of QPCC to the world pinhole day website gallery. Unfortunately we were only allowed to upload one pic per person so apologies in advance if you don’t like the pic picked. The gallery is at:

http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/

If you click on ‘April 27th 2008′ then find the ‘Group’ section in the participants box and look for Queens Park Camera Club here. Select QPCC then click on ‘Go’.

Images (c) Iain McLean, Michael MacLean, Rob Cunningham, Mike Greenwood.

The preview event of the Glasgow Group 50th anniversary exhibition will take place in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 31st May 2008, 12:30-2:30. The event will be opened by Alasdair Gray. All QPCC members are invited. Please come along. The exhibition will be displayed until 30th June 2008.

Members are invited to make up a team for a photo challenge that will be held on May 10. It will start at the club at 12 noon and finish in time for afternoon tea. The last two events have been very fun and sociable so we hope you can come along - even if it is only for the home-baking! You also get the chance to win a prize.

All you need to bring is one digital camera per team. A street atlas, pen and paper will also be useful. This year the challenge will be centred around the suburbs close to the camera club and should only last 2-3 hours plus time for judging and afternoon tea.

Add your name to the list on the wall at the club or contact Gordon Stevenson, Morag Brown or Kim Miller.

Team Wee Three

Members of Queen’s Park Camera Club were asked to tour the city during the Radiance event in November and capture their favourite images. All the pictures were submitted to the city council and the three winning amateur photographers invited to an awards ceremony in the City Chambers. Alistair Watson won the overall prize for his dramatic view of Glasgow Cathedral, as well as the award in the cathedral section. Sheila Clark won in the projects section for her image of The Dress and Michael MacLean picked up the people section award for his image of a man and child enjoying the festival. Please click here to read a full story published in Evening Times.

Image (c) Alistair Watson

We had an annual exhibition of prints in the camera club. Images were judged by Simon Allen EFIAP MPAGB. A list of commended, highly commended and winner images will be available on the website soon.

On Thursday 27th March John West will give his slide/talk presentation on the buildings of Glasgow, ‘Above my head’. Highly recommended by some of our members who have seen the show at another venue!

On Thursday 20th March Leo Palmer FRPS FPSA EFIAP APAGB will speak at Queen’s Park Camera Club. Leo has been a member of Hexham and District Photographic Society for over 30 years, originally working with monochrome and colour darkroom printing and now concentrating on digital imaging. His work, largely produced as a result of extensive travelling, has won him his many distinctions and we are pleased that he will bring both prints and digital images to the club during a short Scottish tour.

You can visit Leo’s website at www.leopalmerphotography.co.uk

The selection of 3D pictures taken by Denis Alyshev in Japan, Russia, France, Switzerland and Scotland will be shown in the camera club on Thursday, 13 March 2008. Pictures will be projected on a silver screen in true colours, 3D polarised spectacles will be provided. Show starts at 7:45PM.

The Scottish Photographic Circle Exhibition Prints 2008 will be shown at Queen’s Park CC on Thursday 28th February with a commentary by Douglas Harris. The Circle’s Centenary exhibition (shown at the club last season) is displayed in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall until 24th March.

Michael James who is a member of QPCC has his pictures exhibited in Bar 10, Glasgow. It’s a collaboration with Knautia from Bristol, the Tale of Two Cities (TOTC) 11, is on show for the next couple of weeks. Have a look down there when you can! Tale of Two Cities is a project on Flickr in which people from two different cities create film based double exposures of their respective cities. One agrees to take the initial pictures, on film at half exposure, then rewind the film and send to their partner in the project, to complete the exposures. Neither knows what the other has taken, and the mixing of exposures are random, with frames often going out of sync with each other. And yet the results are often very striking, resulting in a surprising unity of purpose, and displaying the commonality btween different cities and different artists. TOTC #11, which these images come from, was the first Tale of Two Cities project to be filmed in black and white, and a lot of people were wondering how it would turn out, but in fact, it was the best of the projects so far.

 
Tale of Two Cities of Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbandoubleexposed/

On Thursday 24th January we are delighted to welcome to the club Duncan McEwan, a regular and popular speaker at Queen’s Park. He will be showing the third in his series of beautiful slides of Scottish landscapes - ‘Scotland: land of light’.

Duncan has agreed to our choice of this lecture as the first Eric Watt Memorial Lecture. Eric was a very active and well-liked member of Queen’s Park and after his recent death the club was honoured to receive a legacy. It was decided to use this for the provision of speakers.

Pollok Park was gifted by the Maxwell family in 1969 “for the enjoyment of the citizens of Glasgow” and the “enhancement of the beauty of the neighbourhood”. In 2007 Pollok Park was voted Britain’ s Best Park. In the November 2007 Greenspace Scotland Bulletin, the then Manager of the Park, Tony Boyle, is quoted as follows: “What we have here is unbelievable: outdoor activities, a stately home, and the finest art collection in Europe. And the wonderful thing is it is free!”

Glasgow City Council proposes to give a 21 years lease covering the North Wood of Pollok Park (aerial map is here) to Adventure Forest Ltd to develop a “GO APE ” theme park. This development will restrict the use and enjoyment of a large area of the park to ordinary users, walkers etc. The total area of activity / noise spread etc we have described as huge - it is about half of North Wood by Go Ape’s own maps and evidence from other Go Ape sites.

We had a very interesting meeting of the Contemporary Photography Group on 14 Jaunary 2008 in the Clubrooms. The 11 people who attended were treated to a selection of images from Sandy Sharp who, in 2003, widely exhibited his set of pictures featuring the changes in the former site of Ravenscraig Steelworks. The structure of the project, style of photography and the way the exhibition was funded were all discussed widely. We have also decided to attempt to produce a small selection of images for World Pinhole Day which is on April 27, 2008. Feel free to join in! Our next meeting will (hopefully) be in March.

Have a look at the following sites for inspiration:

http://www.pinholeday.org

http://www.pinholephotography.org (Justin Quinnell’s site - Great!)

http://www.pinhole.com