Please see below a message we have received from Beeslack Camera Club advertising their evening with Colin Prior on Thursday, 3rd November 2016. Musselburgh Camera Club members will be able to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the public. Thursday, 3rd November is also our Colour Print Competition night.

Also please remember to send your 3 images for this year’s Digital Projected Images to George Todd (georgetodd1957@me.com) by this Thursday, 8th September. Our competitions start earlier than usual this year.

I hope to see you this Thursday, when we can talk about the club competitions. If you don’t know how to resize your digital images, bring them along on Thursday and we’ll resize them on the night.

All the best,

Steven.

Dear friends

Beeslack Penicuik Camera Club warmly invites you to an evening with renowned landscape photographer Colin Prior, on the 3^rd of November 2016 at Penicuik North Kirk from 7.30pm.

Tickets for this event will go on general release in the next couple of weeks, however, we are opening our invite to fellow camera clubs first to give you a degree of priority. Audience numbers will be limited to 200, and although tickets will be available at the door on the night, our ticket sales are based on a first come first served basis.

Tickets can be purchased online via our secure payment facility at www.bpcc.photography/events

We look forward to welcoming you at this exciting event.

Kind regards

Stephen Ball, LRPS

Vice President

Email: vice.president@bpcc.photography

Web: www.bpcc.photography | Facebook: / beeslackpenicuikcameraclub.co.uk

Address: Edinburgh Road, Penicuik, Midlothian. EH26 0QF

There are a number of events happening this weekend which members might be interested in (especially as we have a “transport” competition coming up soon):

1. Mike Clark is organising a trip to the 2016 Scottish Air Show in Ayrshire on Saturday 3rd September. Please contact Mike if you are interested.
2. Simon Wilkinson has drawn my attention to the 2016 Bo’ness Hill Climb event, which takes place this Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September, which includes a classic car show.
3. There is a Roman battle re-enactment taking place at Hadrians Wall on Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September.
4. A kite festival is taking place at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune on Saturday 3rd  and Sunday 4th September.

It’s all happening at once this weekend. See you at the club opening night this evening.

Steven

Our club sessions restart in just one week! I look forward to seeing everyone again, and perhaps welcoming some new members along? If you missed our exhibition at the Riding of the Marches last month, there will be another chance to see it on opening night.

Our competitions start earlier than usual this year. The submission date for the Digital Projected Images competition is 8th September 2016, just 2 weeks away. Time to select your images.

We don’t yet have enough images to be able to enter this year’s SPF Digital Championship. If you haven’t yet sent George your two best digital images please do so. We need a minimum bank of 20 images from 10 members.

See you next Thursday.

Steven.

Last year George Smith and myself had a great day at the Scottish airshow in Ayr. its happening again on Sunday 3rd September. Is anybody interested in going.

Mike Clark

Every 21 years Musselburgh has a week of civic celebrations to commemorate the founding of the Burgh. The Camera Club is participating in the form of an exhibition of photographs of Musselburgh Life showing as part of a huge exhibition by  Musselburgh organisations in the Burgh Primary School, Kilwinning Street, Musselburgh EH21 7EE. The exhibition  will be open from 2 to 9pm Monday 25th to Thursday 28th July, 2 to 5pm Friday 29th and Sunday 31st July, closed on Saturday 30th July.

The website for more information about all the ROM celebrations is http://www.rom2016.co.uk.

1 place available on puffin shoot this Saturday  contact me if interested cost approx £20

Mike

The competition meeting with Kirkcaldy will be at the Hayfield Community Centre, Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy KY2 5DG   01592 640592 at 7:30pm. We have explained that some of our members are away ( Joe, George and John Knox, Liz ) but I hope that others will make the trip over the water. They take great photographs and are a friendly bunch. You can check up on progress with the Forth Crossing !

Who fancies photographing Puffins on Fidra and Craigleith at the end of the month (sat 30th). price to be confirmed-boat trip from North Berwick. Please let me know asap

thanks

Mike

This Thursday, 14th April 2016, we will view and select the images to be included in our exhibition for the 2016 Musselburgh Riding Of The Marches. Please bring along a CD or a USB data stick containing up to 10 of your best or most interesting images of Musselburgh or Fisherrow. The size of the exhibition space has not been finalized yet, but it’s likely we will need up to 40 images. We can show the images in the same way we did for the Pechakucha night and select the best by public vote as we did for the knockout competition.

We also need to prepare our entry for the 2016 SPF Digital Championship. The closing date hasn’t been announced on the SPF web site yet, but we need to have the images ready to go when the upload page opens. Please send your two all time best digital images to George Todd before the AGM.

Information about the Laurie Campbell nature workshops at Edinburgh Zoo can be found here:

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/photography

For those asking me about the “AAOGlimpse” program I used last week to show photographs as a 3-D surface, it can be obtained from this web page:

http://203.15.109.22/local/www/ks/AAOGlimpse.html

This free software was developed by my colleague Keith Shortridge at the Australian Astronomical Observatory. Please acknowledge Keith if you use images generated by this program.

Some members have been asking me about what is going to happen at our next club meeting on 7th April, entitled “Photoshop Advice”. The evening will begin with a presentation about digital photography and its relationship with Photoshop, aided and abetted by a number of props :). Come along if you are curious to know how a digital camera works, and how to get the best from it (even if you don’t use Photoshop). The presentation should (I hope) be useful for both beginners and more advanced users. I am planning to show some Photoshop demonstrations at the end, but this won’t be a 90 minute long workshop. I will be happy to run some Photoshop workshops during the summer for club members who would like to find out more about specific topics, or would like to try some of the techniques on their own images.

By the way, we need volunteers to make the tea this Thursday. Please can whoever arrives first set up the mugs and put the kettle on. If you are planning to bring some milk please let me know, otherwise I’ll bring some myself.

See you on Thursday.

Steven.