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Club opening night coming up on 13th August 2026

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The summer has gone by so quickly! A reminder that our club opening night will be on Thursday, 13th August 2026, 3 weeks earlier than last year, starting at 7pm in room G3 of the Fisherrow Centre.

NOTE: There is a new parking arrangement at the Fisherrow Centre. If you park your car in the grounds you need to scan the QR code at the reception desk and enter your number plate. Parking is free during Fisherrow opening hours, as long as you register.

This year we have some extra activities in addition to the usual filling in application forms and chatting over tea and biscuits. George and Derek would like to collect potential competition images early this year, to give our club a chance to enter the 2026/2027 SPF club competitions and to give us a wider selection for inter-club competitions. So, if you have any images that you think could help the club, please bring them along (or email them to George in advance). It will also be an opportunity to get some critique on potential competition images from our more experienced members.

And, talking of bringing along images, this year we will also be collecting images that are well-matched to particular months of the year (e.g. snow scenes for January or festival images for August). If we can collect some good images, Nicola has offered to produce a club calendar.

This year, we will have a challenge running through the whole season. Each member will be able to select a theme, idea or concept. The idea is to create a batch of images based on that theme that work together to tell a story. At the end of the season we will get together to show what we created. The challenge is optional, but it could add another level of fun to the season. Derek will explain further on the night.

The club has a new A3 printer, thanks to another generous grant from the Registers of Scotland. Mike will be setting up and testing the printer. If you joined the printing group last year and have an image that Mike could test on the printer you are welcome to bring it along on a USB stick or SD card, but there’s no guarantee you’ll get a good result yet until Mike has finished his testing and setting up. There will be another printing opportunity on 1st October 2026.

On our second night (20th August 2026) we will be joined by Penicuik Photography Club and and Haddington Camera Club for an inter-club Exhibition Night, where we will show our images of North Berwick taken with a 50mm focal length. We will be able to chat about the images and vote for our favourites. If you haven’t already done so, please e-mail Derek the images you would like to be entered.

I look forward to seeing you all on 13th August 2026.

05 February 2026 (Quiz Night)

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This week the club had its annual quiz night, hosted by quiz-master Jim Innes, who was on last year’s winning team. Jim had devised 50 questions on various subjects, ranging from photography and science to history, sport and pop culture. Did you know that the “P” within “JPEG” stands for “Photographic”, or that the “K” in “CMYK” means “Key”? We also learned that Henry Fox Talbot’s photographic printing process was demonstrated only 5 years before the first Penny Black stamp was issued, and that a standard golf hole is only 4.25 inches in diameter. Club members split into 4 teams of 3 or 4, who marked their answers on a handy score sheet provided by Jim. After Jim had revealed the answers and the scores had been added up, the final result was:

  • 1st place (35 points) – The Blue Team (Ed Robertson, John Fowler, Rick Riley and George Smith).
  • 2nd place (25 points) – The Red Team (Kevin Johnston, Janet Ferrier, Mary Riley and Steven Beard)
  • 3rd place (23 points) – The Yellow Team (Jennifer Davidson, Charlie Baird and Gavin Marshall)
  • 4th place (21 points) – The Purple Team (George Todd, Mike Clark and Derek Muller)

Well done to the Blue Team, who won some chocolate and the right to host next year’s quiz. Although the 4-person teams did have a little bit of an advantage over the 3-person teams, the Blue Team was still way ahead of the rest of us. Rick Riley offered to be next year’s quiz-master. Well done again, and thanks to Jim for compiling a very entertaining and enlightening quiz.

Next week, 12th February, we will be hosting Penicuik Photography Club at the Fisherrow Centre for our joint audio visual evening. We’ll be starting at 7pm in room G3 as usual.

14 December 2023 (Quiz Night)

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This week the club had its annual quiz night. 80 questions were devised by Ed Robertson, the winner of last year’s quiz. We began with questions about photography, followed by questions on history, geography, travel, culture, chemistry and biology. Do you know how many Hawaiian islands there are in total, the name of the river flowing through Lisbon, the name of the lead singer of The Who, or the heaviest organ in the human body? Well, neither did we. :) Club members competed in 3 teams of 4 lead by a scribe who compiled the answers and added the scores. The final result was:

  • 3rd place (51 points) – Team Jim.
  • 2nd place (55 points) – Team Liz.
  • 1st place (68 points) – Team Gavin.

Well done to Team Gavin! There will now be some negotiations to decide which member of the team (Gavin, Steven, Mike or Marian) will set next year’s quiz questions.

Don’t forget to submit your 3 JPEG images for our first set subject competition (on the subject of “Macro”) to George Todd.

Next week, Thursday 21st December, we have our Christmas social. We will meet in the bar at the Ravelston House in Musselburgh from 7pm and dinner will start at 7:30pm. It would be helpful if you could bring the exact money to pay your bill (£22, or £19 for OAPs). Directions can be found on the hotel’s web site. Don’t forget to register your number plate if you park in the car park.

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I wish all Musselburgh Camera Club members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!