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I am the chair of Musselburgh Camera Club, and also a software engineer at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh.

11 Sep 2025 (Creative Lighting Workshop)

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We got our 2025/2026 season well and truly started with a creative lighting workshop. Steven began the evening with a discussion of the lighting equipment available to photographers. This web site has a good introduction to creative lighting techniques: https://shotkit.com/photography-lighting/. Taking photos in low light usually requires a long exposure, which can blur your photos with camera shake. Adding extra lighting is a good way to improve portraits and still life photos taken in a dark place. This time we concentrated on portraits. We’ll spend more time on still life photography at our second workshop on 13th November 2025. There are two basic kinds of lighting available:

  1. Flash. A flash creates an intense and very rapid burst of light. The burst is so rapid that it freezes any movement or camera shake. A disadvantage of a flash is that it can cast a shadow onto the background. Also, because the flash only fires briefly, it’s hard to see in advance where those shadows will be. Some flash units have a dim “modelling light” which shows up the shadows. Firing a flash straight into someone’s face can also cause “red eye”. If your camera has a built-in flash it will probably suffer from these problems. You can get a softer lighting and eliminate the “red eye” problem by attaching a flashgun to your camera and angling the flash upwards so it bounces it off a light ceiling. You can start to emulate a studio setup by adding “slave” flash units which synchronise with your main flash. Lighting your subject from the left and right side can give a softer effect with fewer shadows.
  2. Continuous lighting. Continuous lighting allows you to see how your subject is illuminated before you take the picture. You can add as many lights as you like. However, these lights tend to be dimmer than flash, so you’ll find yourself putting up with longer exposure times. We demonstrated several different kinds of continuous lights at our workshop. There were some bright, mains-powered bulbs, a battery-powered LED panel and a battery powered torch.

Members tried out 3 main lighting setups. Ed and I had set up some of the club’s studio lighting equipment. This equipment consisted of two main-powered flash units combined with some modelling lights, a diffuser umbrella and a “beauty dish”. The equipment triggered each time it detected a flash. This combination was good at taking well-lit portraits with soft lighting. Derek had brought two contrasting setups with continuous lighting. One setup demonstrated how a single light from the side can create dramatic, high contrast portraits. The other setup had two lights with red and blue gels, which created colourful special effects. Steven showed how the battery powered lights can be deployed and removed very quickly, when the LED panel and the torch were used to photograph a rabbit who didn’t like the bright lights.

Next week (18th September) we have our first speaker of the season. Graeme Barclay of Midlothian Camera Club will talk to us about Street Photography.

Welcome to the 2025-2026 season of Musselburgh Camera Club

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I would like to welcome everyone who came to our opening night on 4th September 2025, especially the new members. If you entered your email address on the club home page you should receive these blog entries that describe our meetings. You can also follow group activities by joining our member-only Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/25703565185901411. Ask our web master, Elaine Gilroy, for an invitation.

You will find our 2025-2026 programme on the club website: https://musselburghcameraclub.org.uk/programme-2025-2026/. There are also monthly outings and photoshoots which are listed on our activities page: https://musselburghcameraclub.org.uk/club-activities-2025-2026/, but you’ll find the most up to date information and chat about each activity on our Facebook pages.

The club web site contains a collection of tutorials on photography that our chair has added over the years:
https://musselburghcameraclub.org.uk/introduction-to-photography-presentations/

A list of the events coming up in the next few weeks has already been posted. Click this link to read that post: https://musselburghcameraclub.org.uk/2025/08/26/events-coming-up-in-the-next-few-weeks/

This coming Thursday, 11th September, we have our Creative Lighting Workshop. Please bring your camera and (if you have one) a flashgun. We’ll start the evening by showing a selection of different lighting equipment. If you have anything unusual you would like to show, please bring it with you. We will have 3 different portrait lighting setups that you can try for yourself. On this occasion we’ll be concentrating on taking portraits, so please bring along any costumes and props you think would look good.

Information on how to enter the club competitions can be found here (or you can just ask George Todd, our competition secretary). Competition images are normally emailed to George at georgetodd1957@me.com:

Competition Information
An introduction to the club competitions

Welcome again to the club. A year of exciting photographic activities lies ahead of us.

17 April 2025 (Best Image on the Night)

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Our last regular meeting of the season was our annual knockout, where members bring along a selection of their images and we all vote to choose our favourites. This year members could bring along digital images or prints, and 17 prints and 32 images were submitted.

We began with the prints. There was a varied selection, both mounted and unmounted. There was a beautiful print of a hare, some landscape images, a car, a black and white garden sculpture, some cute pictures of a dog, a rabbit and a little boy, some unusual shots of buildings and reflections, plus a lot of innovative abstract prints, such as a print of some smarties distorted by water droplets, or a print of the shadow pattern cast by a curtain. The images were voted off in a series of head-to-head rounds until only two remained. The final round was a face-off between George’s print of a pony with a comb-over hair style and Hovo’s lovely print of yachts in the harbour at night. In the end, George’s pony image won the most votes.

We moved on to the digital images. There were some great wildlife images, several cityscapes, some golfing images, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and more cute animal pictures. Having 32 images made the head-to-head rounds easier. Images were voted off until only 4 remained. Members then voted for their favourite to determine the final placings, and the result was:

  • 4th place
    • A seascape of waves breaking around groyne number 5 (Mike Clark)
  • 3rd place
    • A siskin resting on a branch (Jennifer Davidson)
  • 2nd place
    • A colourful frog (Derek Muller)
  • 1st Place
    • A cute owl looking out from a mossy resting place (Jennifer Davidson)

We done to George and Jennifer, who both won a pack of mini Easter eggs!

  • Thank you to everyone who volunteered to help move our summer library exhibition. We need one more volunteer to fill the 17th May slot (setting up the exhibition at Gullane). If you are able to help that day please email Ed or Steven.
  • Next Thursday (24th April) we have our club AGM and prize-giving. We will be meeting in room G3 at 7pm and will move next door into G2 for refreshments after the meeting. Please bring along your ideas for next year’s set subject themes. More information will be mailed out soon.

10 April 2025 (Stephen Ball: Scotland Behind the Lens)

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This week we were pleased to welcome Stephen Ball to Musselburgh as our last speaker of the 2024/25 season to give us one of his signature talks on landscape photography: Scotland Behind the Lens. Stephen is originally from London but moved to Scotland in the 1990s. He started his career as a theatre lighting designer and technician before moving into photography, and has recently won several landscape photography awards. You can read more on his “Scotland Captured” web site.

Stephen used to use a Nikon D7100 but has recently switched to a Nikon Z7, which gives a better image quality. His standard kit consists of a tripod, a collection of kit lenses and a set of Lee filters (neutral density, graduated and polarizer). Stephen explained that he likes to get his images right in camera. He uses Adobe Lightroom only for minor adjustments, such as cropping or adjusting the colour saturation. He will occasionally adjust the highlights when there are bright lights in the scene (such as the spotlights on the Queensferry Crossing). He likes to visit places very early in the morning or late at night when there are fewer people around. When Stephen photographs a landscape, he sets his camera on a tripod and takes the time to look at the scene and think about the composition. He avoids the temptation to take a large number of quick snaps, and the tripod helps him slow down. He adjusts the exposure manually and likes to choose a low ISO (such as 64 or 100) and small aperture (such as f/16 or f/22) to get the best image quality with the maximum depth of field. If there are many focal points in a scene, he will increase the depth of field by focus stacking. Stephen avoids using a wide angle lens to capture a panorama because it distorts the edge of the scene. Instead, he builds a panorama from several overlapping shots made in portrait orientation. He has also started experimenting with shots cropped to a square format.

Besides photographing Scottish landscapes, Stephen also likes to photograph the Edinburgh Tattoo, arranged through his membership of the Beautiful Edinburgh Facebook group. He explained how he uses different camera settings for these images. He selects a higher ISO setting for these darker scenes, and normally begins the evening with an aperture around f/11 to get a good depth of field, but when it gets darker he changes to “Auto ISO” and uses wide apertures like f/4.

Stephen took us on a tour of Scotland pictured through his lens, starting with popular locations like the Crawick Multiverse, Stobo Japanese Gardens and Leaderfoot Viaduct in southern Scotland and locations closer to home such as Dalkeith Country Park, Seacliff Beach, Preston Mill, North Berwick and Bass Rock. He also showed us iconic scenes in Edinburgh, from the picturesque Dean Village to citywide views from Calton Hill. Stephen also showed us how he obtained some unusual shots of the Forth bridges in the early morning mist, and he found the platform at Dalmeny Station gives an unusual view peering down the length of the rail bridge. He then took us further afield, showing beautiful scenes from all over Scotland, including an autumn scene at Loch Dunmore, some misty shots of Loch Ard, frosty images of Rannoch Moor and mountain scenes at Buachaille Etive Mor, Glencoe and Sligachan, Isle of Skye. Many of Stephen’s images had been taken only a week or two ago, showing us what we could expect to see if we were to travel to these places right now. Stephen finished his highland shots with a recent image he had captured after a long climb to the Old Man of Storr, where the view was so breathtaking that Stephen almost forgot to take any photographs! Thank you, Stephen, for inspiring us with so many beautiful shots of Scotland.

  • Next week we have a our “Best Image of the Night” evening. This is a fun, informal evening where we discuss and vote for our favourite images on the night. Please bring up to 3 images, either in JPEG format on a USB stick, or as prints, or a mixture of both. Prints can be any size (as long as they are large enough to see from the room) and don’t have to be mounted, although mounted prints are fine as well. I look forward to seeing what you bring.

27 March 2025 (Set Subject Round 3 – Cycling)

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Our 2024-25 set subject tournament concluded this week with round 3 on the theme of “cycling”. The competition was judged by Jennifer Davidson, who won last year’s competition. 13 members entered 36 images altogether. Although “cycling” is quite a narrow subject, members had interpreted the subject in creative ways. There were images of racing cyclists, commuting cyclists and delivery cyclists carrying various loads. George Todd, in particular, had captured a cyclist moving what looked like a haystack! Carol Edmond had a well-timed shot of a jumping BMX cyclist. There were also images of parked bicycles placed against a background, and some creative abstracts made from close-ups of bicycle parts, such as Jim Innes’ image of a spinning bicycle wheel. Steven Beard took the “cycling” theme to the extreme with an image of the inside of a washing machine! Jennifer gave a detailed critique of each image. Cycling was the main theme, so the cyclist or the bicycle needed to be the dominant subject in the frame. She liked to see shots which showed detail on the cyclist but also gave a good sense of movement. Panning with a slightly longer exposure time helps to blur the background and blur the wheels, but you need to follow the cyclist accurately to keep them sharp. She also considered the eye contact and facial expression of the cyclists. Jennifer noticed a few artefacts on the images that might have been added by Photoshop and a few bright or coloured distractions near the edge that could be cropped out. Some of the close-up shots were spoiled by distractions in the background, and Jennifer suggested a change in viewing position or depth of field might have helped. The top scorers were (in reverse order):

  • 5th place (49 points)
    • Mike Clark
    • John West
  • 4th place (50 points)
    • Steven Beard
    • Elaine Gilroy
    • Derek Muller
  • 3rd place (53 points)
    • Joe Fowler
  • 2nd place (54 points)
    • Jim Innes
  • 1st place (56 points)
    • George Todd

The top images were:

  • Moving a Heavy Load (George Todd) – 20 points
  • Out on His Own (George Todd) – 20 points
  • Flat Out (Joe Fowler) – 19 points
  • Vietnamese Cyclist (Malcolm Roberts) – 19 points
  • The School Run (Jim Innes) – 19 points
  • Team Time Trial (Joe Fowler) – 18 points
  • Neil The Cyclist (Steven Beard) – 18 points
  • Over The Bridge (Mike Clark) – 18 points
  • Spinning Slow (Jim Innes) – 18 points
  • Just Eat (Derek Muller) – 18 points

Well done to George Todd, who won this round with both of the 20 point images. George would normally win the right to judge next year’s competition, except he already won the first round and will be judging that one next year. George nominated Jim Innes, who came second. After consulting the final spreadsheet I can reveal that the final result from all three competitions is:

  • 1st place
    • George Todd (57 + 56 = 113)
  • 2nd place
    • Malcolm Roberts (53 + 53 = 106)
  • 3rd place
    • Derek Muller (55 + 50 = 105)
    • John West (51 + 54= 105)
    • Jennifer Davidson (53 + 52 = 105)
    • Joe Fowler (52 + 53 = 105)
  • 4th place
    • Jim Innes (50 + 54 = 104)
  • 5th place
    • Steven Beard (51 + 50 = 101)
  • 6th place
    • Melanie Gallacher (51 + 49 = 100)
    • Karen Woodcock (51 + 49 = 100)

Congratulations to George for winning the set subject trophy with a massive 113 points, and commiserations to Malcolm for being pipped at the post.

  • This is the last competition of the season, and George needs to engrave the trophies for the AGM. If you won a trophy last year please return it to George as soon as possible.
  • Don’t forget to send your dancer images to Derek, and let him know if you would like to take part in the “Acting Out” opportunity on 15-16th May.
  • Also, don’t forget to register and let Ed and Stephen know if you would like to go with other MCC members to the Hopetoun Horse Trials on 24th May.
  • Next week we have our last Members Evening of the season. The main theme this time will be “editing”. If you have improved some of your shots with editing techniques, please bring along some “before” and “after” images and tell us how you did it. But as it’s the last Members Evening of the season, it’s also an opportunity to bring along anything else you would like to show members. See you there.

20 February 2025 (Joe Gilhooley: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It)

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The club was delighted to welcome Joe Gilhooley from Loanhead, Midlothian to talk about his work. Joe’s interest in digital photography began in 2010, when he wanted to record his daughter growing up. He purchased a Canon DSLR and took the camera on family trips. He developed a liking for landscape photography but fell into the usual trap of coming home with 400 scattergun images of the same scene. He now recommends pretending you have a roll of film and only capturing the small number of images you think are worth keeping. Joe has 3 Canon DSLR camera bodies, a Sony compact camera, and a selection of 9 lenses. He always uses a tripod for landscape photography and recommends using the camera in “mirror up” mode with a remote shutter release to prevent camera shake. Joe’s love of landscape photography won him the “Scots Magazine Photographer of the Year” award in 2017 and 2019. Joe joined the Royal Photographic Society in 2020 and achieved an LRPS qualification in 2021 and is working towards the ARPS qualification. You can see more of Joe’s work on his web site:

http://www.joegilhooley.co.uk/

Joe started by showing us the 10 images he had submitted to win his LRPS qualification, which included a night view of the Forth Bridges, a night view of Edinburgh from Calton Hill, star trails over the Belhaven Bridge and a clever still life which simulated colours being painted onto a bowl of fruit. Joe likes to take his landscape images during the blue hour: the hour just before sunrise or just after sunset when sky is still bright enough to give a blue background. Joe watches the weather forecast and will often drive to a location at short notice to arrive in time for the perfect conditions. Calm conditions at sunrise are ideal for capturing still reflections and morning mist. Joe took us on a journey across Scotland, showing us a wide variety of excellent images of castles, gardens, monuments, lochs, mountains and iconic viewpoints. His subjects included landscapes, cityscapes, wildlife, star trails and fireworks. In 2022, Joe successfully applied for a press contract to photograph the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which gave him the opportunity to capture some beautiful images of the event. Joe had also offered his services to several football clubs, and had obtained a press pass to capture images of key moments during their games. Joe finished by showing us some of his sports photography images. Joe uses two camera bodies for his sports photography. One body has a 400mm lens attached, which he uses to capture distant action. The other has a 70-200mm lens, which he uses when the action gets closer. He uses fast (f2.8) lenses and a very high ISO to achieve the fast shutter speeds required for sports photography. A monopod helps to support the weight of his heavy 400mm lens.

It was a fascinating evening where Joe gave us hints about good places and times to take photographs and encouraged us not to be afraid to contact organisations like sports clubs and local newspapers who may need a local photographer.

  • We are having our “Sense of Speed” club photoshoot this Saturday, 22nd February at 10:30am in Lewisvale Park, Musselburgh, EH21 7AR. Bring your camera to practice photographing bicycles, dogs and people moving against a background. For best results bring a lens with a large maximum aperture, such as f2.8.

13 February 2025 (Camera Settings Evening)

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This week we had an evening devoted to a discussion on camera settings. Steven began the evening with a general presentation on camera settings. The notes from the presentation can be downloaded from the following page:

Introduction to Camera Settings

Steven was intending to demonstrate the effect of the different settings live, but unfortunately the HDMI link from his camera to the club projector didn’t work. 😦 But members experimented with different exposure modes by photographing light and dark objects against a black or white background. The ability to focus on an erratic object was testing using a chaotic pendulum, and the flash modes were compared by photographing a cat toy being waved around in the air. There wasn’t enough time to cover all the possibilities, but if you are interested in learning more about autofocus modes, here is on online tutorial:

https://www.naturettl.com/understanding-autofocus-points-and-modes/

Here are a couple of tutorials explaining what you can do with the “slow sync” flash modes that we tried during the evening:

https://www.iphotography.com/blog/slow-sync-flash-photography/

https://www.theschoolofphotography.com/tutorials/slow-sync-flash

Derek finished the evening by giving a demonstration on depth of field. A collection of little men were placed at different distances from a background, and members tried photographing them with different aperture settings.

  • Next week Joe Gilhooley will be giving us a talk entitled “If I Can Do It, You Can Do It“. You can find some of Joe’s work on his web site:

http://www.joegilhooley.co.uk/index.html

See you there.

06 February 2025 (Audio Visual Evening)

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This week members of Musselburgh Camera Club travelled to Beeslack Community High School to meet with members of Beeslack Penicuik Camera Club for our annual audio visual evening. Beeslack’s usual room was occupied by a Taekwondo class, so we started the evening in a small classroom.

Musselburgh started with an introduction to ICM photography in Butterdean Wood, created by Steven Beard, based on the club photoshoot from July 2024. Then, Beeslack’s presented a history of coal mining in Scotland, based on information and materials picked up from a club visit to the National Mining Museum, supplemented by club photographs and drone shots. There was a change of mood with the third presentation, when Derek Muller showed a video entitled “Birds Having Lunch” featuring some great shots of wild birds feeding. The change of mood continued when Beeslack showed another beautiful and calming creation by Brian Nicolson, featuring photographs of trees and woodland enhanced and blended with art filters from paint.NET. Musselburgh followed with a presentation compiled from photographs taken by club members on a photoshoot to the Balgone Sunflower Trail. This was followed by Beeslack’s presentation on the history of East Lothian, which used to be known as Haddingtonshire. The presentation took us on a journey through time, from the battles for dominance between the tribes of ancient Scotland and the construction of castles, to the witch trials and the impact of all this history on the modern landscape of East Lothian. Melanie Gallacher followed with a musical video in celebration of her daughter, and then Beeslack finished with an inspiring collection of long exposures of a fire dancer, set to Stravinsky’s The Firebird. And on that note we finished the evening and retired to Beeslack’s usual room for tea and biscuits. Thank you Beeslack for hosting us.

  • Next week (Thursday 13th) we have another flexible Members Evening. I propose that we have a session on camera skills. Please bring your camera (plus a macro lens and a flash if you have one). If you have any interesting small objects to photograph, bring those along as well. I’m especially interested in moving objects (such as a pendulum or a dancing robot), if you have any.
  • I am planning to demonstrate the settings on my Nikon camera. It would be good to have volunteers to cover Canon, Sony and Panasonic cameras as well.

See you next week.

30 January 2025 (Set Subject Round 1 – Buildings)

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Our last meeting in January was the first round of our 3-part set subject competition, on the theme of “Buildings”. Mike Clark had kindly volunteered to judge this competition. 

There were 42 entries from 14 members.  Mike described what he liked about each image and also gave some suggestions for improvement. He particularly liked images where the photographer had thought outside the box to post something unusual, such as Karen Woodcock’s unusual view of a building that made it look like a face looking down or Gavin Marshall’s “Witches Cottage” decorated for Halloween. Mike commented on the composition of each image. There were some compositions where there was a path that was cut off at the edge of the frame and it would have been be nice to have see more of that path. He also pointed out some distracting objects that were cut in half at the edge.  Mike recommended that we try to compose an image so there is a separation between the components. Could a different viewpoint have separated those overlapping chimneys or towers, for example? He also commented on some converging verticals and recommended that long buildings that dominate the horizon be photographed straight on, so they will look more natural on a straight horizon.  Overall, members had submitted some good quality and innovate images, and there were a lot of high marks. The top scorers were (in reverse order):

  • 5th place (50 points)
    • Carol Edmond
    • Jim Innes
  • 4th place (51 points)
    • Steven Beard
    • Gavin Marshall
    • John West
    • Karen Woodcock
    • Melanie Gallacher
  • 3rd place (53 points)
    • Malcolm Roberts
    • Jennifer Davidson
  • 2nd place (55 points)
    • Derek Muller
  • 1st place (57 points)
    • George Todd

The top images were:

  • Corbiere Lighthouse (George Todd) – 20 points
  • Dawn (Jennifer Davidson) – 20 points
  • V and A Dundee (Melanie Gallacher) – 20 points
  • Toronto (George Todd) – 19 points
  • Old to New, Boston (Derek Muller) – 19 points
  • Are you looking down on me? (Karen Woodcock) – 19 points
  • Natural History Museum 1 (Malcolm Roberts) – 18 points
  • Himeji Castle Member (Malcolm Roberts) – 18 points
  • Botanical Gardens (Steven Beard) – 18 points
  • Baltimore Lighthouse (Steven Beard) – 18 points
  • KotelInicheskaya (George Todd) – 18 points
  • Reflective Towers (John West) – 18 points
  • Hospice of Soutra (Carol Edmond) – 18 points
  • Jedburgh Abbey Sunny Day (Jim Innes) – 18 points
  • Small Buildings (Derek Muller) – 18 points
  • Taj Mahal Sunrise (Derek Muller) – 18 points
  • Clifftop Buildings (Jennifer Davidson) – 18 points

Well done to George Todd, who wins the right to judge next year’s competition. And well done to everyone who entered. This is just the first round out of 3, and the overall winner is the one who has the highest marks from their best two rounds. So the competition is still open, and there are a lot of members following closely behind the leading pack.

16 January 2025 (Gordon Rae: Wild at Heart – A Photographer’s Journey)

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This week we were delighted to welcome award-winning wildlife photographer Gordon Rae to Musselburgh to talk to us about “Wild at Heart – A Photographer’s Journey”. Gordon had last visited a year ago when he judged our human portrait competition and gave us a short talk on the “Birds of Iceland”. Gordon explained that he had started as a farmer in South West Scotland with an interest in landscape photography. A local magazine liked his landscape photographs and signed him up. His career in photography took off when he began photographing the local wildlife, joined Dumfries Camera Club and began giving tours for other photographers. He now gives 10 tours a year. Gordon uses a Nikon camera with a 200-400mm lens and 1.4x teleconverter. He likes to take his shots from close to the ground, which makes it easier to get a narrow depth of field. He also likes to use space in his shots to show the creatures in their environment. You can find some of Gordon’s work on his web site:

https://www.gordonraephotography.co.uk/index.html

Gordon began by showing the wildlife photographed in his local area, including birds and hedgehogs in his garden. Gordon travels around his farm on a quad bike and uses it as a tool to get close to wildlife. His strategy is not to use a hide, but to keep repeating the same actions until the wild animals get used to him and realise he is not a threat. The local hares will let him get close as long as he doesn’t get off the bike. As well as great shots of hares, dippers and kingfishers, there were some unusual dark squirrels and a fantastic shot of a grumpy sparrowhawk. Gordon then took us further afield and showed some fabulous shots of ospreys, grouse and mountain hares taken in Scotland.

In the second half of the talk. Gordon described his adventures on a bear-watching trip to Silver Salmon Creek in Alaska. The journey there was an adventure in itself, with the site only accessible by a small aircraft which landed on the beach! Visitors to Silver Salmon Creek Lodge live and move within the habitat of the bears and need to be constantly on watch. Gordon described some hair-raising encounters with the bears. He witnessed a mother defending her cubs, a bear running towards him to pounce on a salmon, and a bear that came so close that other photographers had turned their cameras on him! The results were some truly breath-taking images. Gordon finished his talk by showing us photographs he captured on a trip to Churchill in Manitoba, Canada. After arriving in the autumn, he witnessed how quickly the Hudson Bay can freeze. This time polar bears were his main subject, although he also captured some images of the local foxes. The polar bears were photographed from the giant tundra vehicle, and the driver was happy to position the vehicle to capture the bears against a more interesting background. Gordon left us all inspired to improve our wildlife photography.

  • Next Thursday we will use our Members Evening slot to have another studio portrait session. We can practise some of the advice we learned from last week’s portrait competition. It will be similar to last year’s studio night, except this time we’ll concentrate on the lighting. Derek will bring along his studio lights, and we can move the lighting around and see how it affects the final result.
  • Please bring your camera on Thursday, plus a tripod and a flashgun if you want to experiment with those.