Programme of Events 2007-2008
We meet each season from September through April, with the summer months off to give us a chance to take some photos! Meetings are every Tuesday from 7:30pm until around 9:30pm. We meet at the Helensburgh Lawn Tennis Club - see the Find Us section for more details.
Our events co-ordinator, Guy Phillips, has setup a great season for 2007 - 2008. There's a wide variety of activities, including competitions, tutorials, interesting talks and slideshows, and of course some social events.
Below are the details of the 2007-2008 season calendar. It has been split into two halves - please select the appropriate tab.
- September - December 2007
- January - April 2008
| Date | Title | Details | Entries |
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| Sep 18 | Opening Night Various Club Members |
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| Sep 25 | Quiz Night Guy & Kim Phillips |
Guy and Kim have come up with a quiz at short notice, due to a cancellation. | |
| Oct 2 | Royal Navy Photography Ian Arthur |
A popular evening with the return of Warrant Officer Ian Arthur, part of the Navy's press relations unit. Ian's own site |
Entries for Pixart Trophy |
| Oct 9 | Marine Photography Peter Clarke |
Peter's own site | |
| Oct 16 | SPF Slide Portfolio plus Helensburgh CAG Kathleen Siddle |
Helensburgh Conservation Area Group update from Kathleen. | Entries for Landscape Competition (new) |
| Oct 23 | Pixart Trophy Judging Jim Dyas |
Details of Pixart Trophy. | |
| Oct 30 | Bermuda Slides John Russell |
Practical Still Life session was cancelled. | |
| Nov 6 | Landscape Competition Judging Campbell Skinner |
Details of Landscape Competition. | Digital entries for Frank Walton Competition |
| Nov 13 | Practical Portrait Session |
This has been cancelled - Q&A session instead. | Entries for McArthur Stanton |
| Nov 20 | Club Print Knockout Competition |
Bring along up to 4 prints each. 'Sudden death' knockout voting until we find a winner. | |
| Nov 27 | GDPU Digital Salon |
AV presentation of accepted and winning entries. | |
| Dec 4 | McArthur Stanton Competition Judging |
The theme this year is bridges. | |
| Dec 11 | Landscape Photography Duncan McEwan |
Duncan is a freelance photographer specialising in Scottish landscape photography - see more at his website. | |
| Dec 18 | International Slide Competition |
Showing of slides from Dingwall 2007 competition. | Entries for Occuleye Competition |
| Date | Title | Details | Entries |
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| Jan 8 | Underwater Photography Gavin Anderson |
Gavin has taken some amazing underwater shots of various reefs, wrecks and marine life. See more at his site. |
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| Jan 15 | Occuleye Competition Judging Sandy Wallace |
Sponsored by local opticians Occuleye, here are the competition details. | |
| Jan 22 | Club AV Presentations Jim Shimmins & others |
Jim has organised an evening of audio-visial presentations on various topics by club members. |
Entries for Creighton Memorial Competition |
| Jan 29 | History of photography and Other Topics Andy Green |
Andy, formerly of Kodak, talks on an eclectic mix of topics, including the history of photgraphy, how the first photograph was sent over the internet, and much more... |
First date for LLTL entries |
| Feb 5 | SPF Print Portfolio |
AV presentation of Scottish Photographic Federation entries. | Entries for Williamson & CGL Creative Competitions |
| Feb 12 | Creighton Competition Judging TBD |
The Creighton Memorial Competition is open to monochrome entries only. | Final date for LLTL entries |
| Feb 26 | Williamson Cup Judging CGL Creative Judging Graham Johnston |
A busy night, with judging of two competitions. The CGL creative competition is for digitally manipulated images. | Entries for Eddie Aird Competition |
| Mar 4 | LLTLCompetition Judging Friends of Loch Lomond Q&A Session Guy Phillips |
Any questions you'd like answered in the second half, please send to Guy. | Entries for Clydebank CC Competition |
| Mar 11 | Print Battle with Clydebank CC Alastair Knox |
Our annual duel against our friends along the water. | |
| Mar 18 | Eddie Aird Competition Judging Charlie Moore |
The last competition of the season. | |
| Mar 25 | Somthing Different Angus Campbell |
Greenock-based photographer Angus shows us some of his work, and talks about how we can break out of the usual camera club habits. | |
| Apr 1 | Annual General Meeting |
Please send items you'd like to raise to Jim Shimmins at least 2 weeks before the meeting. | |
| Apr 9 | Annual Exhibition |
A chance to display the best work of the season. | |
| Apr 15 | Annual Dinner |
Members and partners get together at the golf club for some good food and prize giving. |
