Well Christmas crept up on us. Tomorrow night sees the Christmas buffet for those who are attending, but we don't have another club night until the 9th January. On that night we have the always entertaining knockout competition - but we are seriously lacking entries this year. There's still loads of time to get two digital images to Ben for this, so please don't hesitate to have a go. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! note - the good news is that fro

This week we have a members' night, which is largely open to discuss anything photography that might be on your mind. Ken is going to give a brief overview of what the recently released ON1 Photo RAW software can do, and why you might fancy it as a more affordable alternative to photoshop. Ben also has some images from the two club outings at House of Dun and Scurdie Ness (although the latter was sooooo cold, frozen fingers were struggling with cameras!) Scurdie Ness Lightho

Tuesday 12th is the night for submission of images for the annual knockout competition. For new members, this is a fun contest held usually on the first night back after new year, where the audience becomes the judge, and images are pitted against each other until we are left with one winner. Please submit two PDIs (projected digital images) to Ben at bpscomps@gmail.com. Tuesday is listed as the deadline, because it's the last club night of the year, but realistically, anyt

Congratulations to all our winners on Tuesday and many thanks to Mike Hall for coming all the way from Torphins to judge the competition. Many lovely entries from all here's a list of the winning images as shown above in the slideshow. Division 1 Ian Hastie "From The Earth"-1st Place James Anderson "Larch at Sunrise" - 2nd Place George Clubb "Hanging On" - 3rd Equal Jean Wigglesworth "Limestone Pavement" - 3rd Equal Division 2 Ben Freeman "Alone at the Asylum"-1st Place Anne

This coming Sunday we have our second outing of the year, at Scurdie Ness. For those who like their engineering and history, Scurdie Ness Lighthouse was built by David and Thomas Stevenson, and commissioned in 1870, and is an excellent example of a Stevenson lighthouse - always excellent focal points for photographs. While still in use, the house and grounds are privately owned, but there are many photo opportunities around the perimeter of it, and along the rocky headland