The time is almost here! The 2017/2018 Musselburgh Camera Club session begins this Thursday, 7th September at 7:30pm at the Fisherrow Centre. See you there.

I hope you are all have a good summer of photography. Here are some suggestions for places to visit if you are struggling to find subjects for next season’s “set subject” competitions:

• The National Mining Museum have added a Headframe Tour to their repertoire, offering great views over the surrounding countryside. The pithead and engines also might be the place to find some “circles and squares” subjects.
• Prestongrange Museum is also a good place to find mining equipment and railway engines.
• Here are some good places to find woodland scenery:
  • River Esk Walkway
  • Butterdean Wood
  • Pressmennan Wood
  • Seton Dean Wood
  • The woodland walk along the Yester Path from Gifford to Yester Castle.
• The Air show at the National Museum of Flight takes place on 22nd July 2017. This might be a good opportunity to capture movement.

Finally, a couple of other items which might be of interest

• The BBC Countryfile Photo Competition is open until 21st July 2017
• 17th August 2017: Okello Dunkley has advertised a Low light photography workshop in Edinburgh

Cheers,

Steven.

Our 2017 library exhibition starts today in Longniddry library. Thank you to John Knox and Gus Langlands for starting it off, and to all the other members who have volunteered to help transfer it from library to library over the coming months.   Click here for a full set of exhibition dates.

Also, a reminder that the subjects for next year’s “set subject” competitions are:

• Circles and Squares (judged by Mike Clark)
• Movement (judged by Joe Fowler)
• Woodland (judged by Ken Sharp)

Have a great summer of photography!

A space is available to photograph either badger or kingfisher from a hide in kirkudbright on June 6th. Cost will be £60-90. Please let me know asap if you can go.

Mike Clark

The Musselburgh Camera Club AGM and presentation of trophies will take place at 7:30pm this Thursday, 27th April 2017 in our usual room at the Fisherrow Community Centre. Please come along and have your say in the running of the club. We will be choosing the subjects for next year’s set subject competitions at this meeting, so start thinking of ideas. The agenda for this meeting will be:

1. Apologies
2. Statement by Jane Cummings, Fisherrow Community Centre manager
3. Minutes of AGM held on 21st April 2016
4. Matters arising
5. Chairman’s opening remarks
6. Secretary’s report
7. Treasurer’s report
8. Competition Secretary’s report
9. Election of Office bearers
10. Election of new Committee members
11. Set subject competition
12. Any otter business
13. Presentation of trophies to winners of club competitions

There will be refreshments after the meeting. I will be emailing the formal documents for this meeting directly to all members in the next few days, but I am missing email addresses for some new members. If you joined during the year and would like a copy of the documents, please email me at StevenMBeard@aol.com. I will bring some printed copies with me, just in case.

A reminder that we will not be meeting in the Fisherrow Centre this Thursday, 13th April 2017. Instead, we will be meeting up for an outdoor photoshoot. I suggest we meet at 7pm outside the Harbour Cafe at Fisherrow Harbour (behind the Shell Garage), as shown on the following map. Unfortunately, the cafe will be closed by 7pm, but the Ravelston House Hotel is around the corner if you arrive early and need refreshment. There is car parking in front of the harbour and along the road next to the promenade,

The sun sets at 8:15pm tomorrow, and it is forecast to be cloudy but not raining. We should have some good light at the start, but bring a tripod if you’d like to continue after sunset or try some long exposure shots of the sea. High tide is at 4:30pm and low tide at 10:45pm, so the tide will be fairly low and going out. There are boats and birds to photograph in the harbour, views of Musselburgh and the Forth, and there may also be interesting debris on the beach.

I hope to see you there.

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Musselburgh Camera Club achieved a third place in the Borders Digital Challenge competition last weekend; just one mark below Dumfries Camera Club and three marks below the winners, Morpeth Camera Club. A excellent result considering the strength of some of the competition.

We have obtained a CD of the competition, therefore on Thursday 6th April we will show all the images entered.