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

The final meeting of 2025 was in the hall and was a fun Knockout Competition. Some members had submitted two entries each on the theme of 'Images That Bring a Smile to Your Face'. This produced a very wide variety of images making the voting, by a show of hands in the hall, really difficult at times. The winner was '96 Today' by Amanda Dickson. Second "Portrait Workshop' by Norman Mackenzie. 3rd equal was 'Playing with Mud' by Haz Fairweather. 3rd equal 'Millie in the Snow' b

Ashley Frankiln, who gave us a fascinating talk on Zoom last session and will be giving another talk at the end of January, delivered his verdict and comments on the Annual Image Competition Round 3 submissions. He was very thorough in his critique of each image giving constructive points to help us improve our images. First place in Division 2 was 'Fibie' by Laura Ferguson Second place in Division 2 was 'Sunset on the South Esk' by Amanda Dickson Third in Division 2 was 'Pil