We've been fortunate this year to be given the opportunity to try some action photography at Brechin City Football Club. Graeme Youngson, the football club photographer, gave a fascinating talk on what he does on match days and showed some of his best shots. His other main photographic interest is in street photography and he shared some great examples and useful advice. The members who decided to have a go thoroughly enjoyed the chance to be on the touch line at a home matc

There was a wide range of subjects for this year's Main Project, the last club competition of the session. Stewart Dodd BEM LRPS from Dundee was the judge and he came to Brechin to deliver his comments and verdict to members in the hall. Stewart's thoughtful and carefully considered comments gave encouragement and food for thought. The winner this year was Chamila Brieske, her second Main Project win, with a vivid collection of colourful characters for a project entitled 'Mas

The Mini Panel this year was a different challenge. Instead of creating a triptych, which has been required for the last few years, members were invited to submit a panel of four images, a quadriptych. The members who rose to the challenge produced a very wide range of themes and layouts giving our judge, Linda Golightly, a tricky task when considering which panels should be the winners. Linda joined us by Zoom and gave an excellent critique of every image and the final pane

Roy Robertson FRPS Hon came to Brechin to present his thoughts on each of the submissions in all three Image of the Year Competitions, Colour Print, Mono Print and Digital Image. Roy had the difficult task of judging a wide range of subjects and selecting the winners. Winner of Colour Print of the Year was Manuel Brieske. Winner of the Digital Image of the Year was James Anderson. Winner of the Mono Print of the Year was Anne May. All placed and commended images can be seen i

We were pleased to welcome back a good friend and former member of BPS, Andy Hayes, to judge the prints for the fourth round of the Annual Image Competition. It was an exciting evening as the points were close from three previous rounds and several members were in a position to win in both divisions. As usual there was a wide range of images and the quality was high, giving Andy a difficult task in selecting the winners. His comments and advice on how improvements could be ma