Wonderful photo – opportunity
The Aviva Tour of Britain international cycle race will be travelling through East Lothian on Wednesday 9th September. The start is in Holyrood Park and the stage runs over the Lammermuirs to finish at Blyth in Northumberland. Full details are on the Tour website. http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk
To help celebrate Edinburgh Living Landscape, an initiative that creates attractive and biodiverse green areas across the city, you are invited to take part in our first photography competition. All you need to do is submit a photo of one of the city’s floral meadows or natural grasslands by 11 September 2015 and you could win some great prizes, including annual membership to the Scottish Wildlife Trust, exclusive prizes from Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 6 month membership to Edinburgh Leisure, a professional photography session and tickets to the Usher Hall Sunday Classics series. Your photos can by of anything that highlights the beauty of these natural green spaces or how they can be enjoyed.
Entries will be shortlisted by a panel of judges. The finalists will then be put forward for a public vote on the Edinburgh Outdoors facebook page. You can view some of our images and find your nearest Edinburgh Living Landscape site using the map on www.edinburgh.gov.uk/livinglandscape
Download the competition guidelines, including terms and conditions below.
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Third Prize:
All shortlisted finalists will be offered the opportunity to take part in a professional photography session. This will involve a 30 minute workshop on photography techniques and 1.5 hour walk through a natural setting to take photos and practice techniques.
Edinburgh Living Landscape is a partnership project that creates, restores and connects green areas of the city to make attractive and biodiverse landscapes. This means that there have been changes to how some of our outdoors spaces look. The project involves a range of measures such as:
Award-winning photographer, Tom Langlands, is hosting a Wildlife Photography Workshop at the Seabird Centre and Gosford Estate on Saturday 29 August. The cost for this full day event is £65 – please click on the link below for details. This is a brilliant chance to learn some top tips and have a great day out.
http://seabird.org/what’s-on/photography-workshop/15/190
Also, we have just launched the 10th Scottish Seabird Centre Nature Photography Awards. There are a whole host of categories to enter, including two new categories for our anniversary year. Please click on the link below for details.
http://seabird.org/what’s-on/nature-photography-awards/15/50
http://www.scottishairshow.com/whats-on/air-display
Hi All hope you are all getting great images over the summer. Another opportunity for great shots will be the Scottish Air Show which has a great line up. It will be our last chance to see the Vulcan in action. im hoping to go. I was wondering if we could get enough interest we could have a club outing? for more info see the link above.
Mike
Hi All,
Due to my tripod legs breaking i am selling my Ball head.
It is a Hahnel BH-40 which is 1 year old and in mint condition.
RRP is £30 but i am after £15 for camera club members before i advertise it elsewhere. i can bring it to rosslyn tomorrow if anybody wants a shot.
If interested call mike on 07722887278
thanks Mike
Laurie Campbell Workshop
Hi All now the weather is getting better (fingers crossed). its time to organise the Safari park trip. Who would be interested this weekend. If we get numbers i will set a day and time.
respond and list your name with preference for day.
Cheers
Mike
Hi All,
laurie campbel has been in touch. is anybody up for this workshop?
I am. Can anybody organise it and get 6 of us together?
Cheers
mike
Hi Mike,
Just been going over past emails and wondered if you received the one forwarded below from mid-March…….?
If not, I’d hate you to think that I hadn’t bothered!
Sometimes, I’ve had instances where emails weren’t received because they were rejected by ‘spam filters’ due to attachments / image files but in this case I’ve removed them.
Best,
Laurie
Laurie Campbell Photography
Hestia, Paxton,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1TE
Scotland, UK
email: laurie@lauriecampbell.com
Tel:+44(0)1289 386 736
From: Laurie Campbell
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:14 PM
To: Mike Clark
Subject: Re: Show 6/3/15
Hello again Mike,
Sorry again for the delay in getting back to you but now that I’ve had a little time, I’ve prepared the following overview on what I can offer in the way of nature photography workshops.
I’m assuming that weekends are best for most Club Members but if weekdays are possible, then do let me know and I’ll get back to you with further dates. Meantime, possible weekends are as follows:
21st / 22nd March
4th / 5th April
2nd / 3rd May
About workshops. I’ve been teaching photography since before I turned professional 30 years ago and I’ve long since learnt that everyone attends photographic workshops for different reasons – they are interested in learning how to photograph different subjects, need help in different areas etc. So I deal with this by offering one-to-one help by going round the group throughout the day. For this reason, and to be fair to everyone, then I suggest a maximum group size of six.
Group numbers can affect costs and so smaller groups are possible, but would obviously be slightly more expensive (per person) so my rates are as follows:
Two participants £150.00 each
Three participants £100.00 each
Four participants £75.00 each
Five participants £60.00 each
Six participants £50.00 each
This would be for a full 9.00am – 5.00pm day, but then if the weather is fine, and anyone wishes to stay a little longer, then I would pleased to extend this.
As with all my workshop days, the emphasis is showing guests how to get the best from the equipment that they already happen to own, rather than specifying a list of ‘must have’ items which can make some feeling a little uncertain. Items such as tripods are important but then I always have mine available should anyone need to borrow one. Similarly, I have a range of reflectors, diffusers and filters with a range of adaptor rings so that they can be fitted to most people’s lenses. What I wouldn’t want is for anyone to rush out any purchase anything specially for the workshop! Indeed, they should have a better idea of what they might need (if anything) afterwards so I can give advice on that subject too.
About locations / subjects. These vary enormously but a combination that has worked very well and which I have staged several times for visiting groups has been to spend a morning at Burnmouth and then the afternoon at Eyemouth Harbour. There is a great range of subjects between the two locations, starting with mostly static subjects at Burnmouth, including still life macro subjects, of rock formations, plants and shorelife through to landscapes. And then at Eyemouth there are the more challenging birds (gulls, eider ducks, cormorants etc) and grey seals in the harbour so there is a natural progression to the day.
If a smaller group only wanted to photograph one type of subject for the whole day, such as birds or macro, then this would be possible and I would come up with a bespoke itinerary to suit.
Meantime the attached ‘contact-sheets’ shows samples of just a few images from Eyemouth that are perfectly possible to achieve in a single day.
There are other possibilities, including:
The Scottish Deer Centre, by Cupar, Fife – birds of prey and access insides of enclosures to work with subjects such as fallow deer and foxes – samples attached. This spring / summer – cost: (including refreshments, lunch, entry to Park, hire of falconer £90.00 each for six or £135.00 for four.
St Abbs Head – seabirds (obviously) but fantastic plants, insects and landscapes – samples attached. Later this spring – cost: as for Burnmouth / Eyemouth day.
Gannets feeding – Sailing around (but not landing) on the Bass Rock on a trip designed for action photographs of gannets feeding – samples attached. July / August – cost TBA.
Do just feel free to call me anytime on the number below should you wish to discuss – and I don’t mind fielding questions from interested members too.
Regards & thanks,
Laurie
Laurie Campbell Photography
Hestia, Paxton,
Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1TE
Scotland, UK
email: laurie@lauriecampbell.com
Tel:+44(0)1289 386 736
From: Mike Clark
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 10:31 PM
Subject: Show 6/3/15
Hi Laurie,
Really enjoyed your show and images. I along with some of my friends in Musselburgh Camera Club are very interested in workshops with you. Can you supply me with a link to what you have on offer?
Kind regards
Mike Clark
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Info re trip coming soon.
Charge your batteries
Mike
The dates that are available are 18th and 25th June from 6pm to 8pm when there will be no normal visitors.
The charge will be £10 per person with a minimum total overall of £100. Each photographer will have to sign an agreement
on arrival assigning joint copyright of the images and a restriction on how the images may be used.
I need to know which is the best date with a minimum of ten to keep the cost down.
I will get a copy of the agreement as soon as possible.
Regards
gavin
Musselburgh Camera Club 
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