Dear Fellow Member CLUB AUCTION As you will no doubt be aware, there’s a delicate balancing act in ensuring the club maintains a reasonable financial surplus from year to year whilst at the same time, putting on interesting and varied events throughout the season. Some of these events involve guest speakers and judges and there’s an associated cost with this. Membership fees at BPS are purposefully held at the lower range of fees that are charged at photographic clubs in Sco

Next Tuesday we welcome Donald Ford back to the club. Those who were there for his visit last year will know it is a great fun evening. Donald is a former international footballer and cricketer, and now a renowned golf course photographer. He will be looking at your images, either prints or digital, and offering his constructive and informed feedback on them. This is not a competition, but rather a much more informal appraisal night. Please bring along a couple of prints,

Today is the hand in date for the Main Project, and I already have 13 submissions, with a vast range of subject matter, so it promises to be a fun competition for the judge to consider. We have a new judge for BPS this year - Harry Scott - who I am sure you will all enjoy listening to, so I would encourage anyone who is undecided to have a go at putting a project in. Given that we have a Committee meeting tomorrow night, I am unlikely to get these sorted out until Thursday,

This Tuesday we have our annual image exchange with Carnoustie Photo Group - now aptly named the Twenty20 - a name not stolen from limited overs cricket at all. In the past we have looked through the images sent to us by Carnoustie PG, discussed them and made some 'on the hoof' edits, before reporting the findings back to them the following month. This season is a little different, as they have provided us with 20 images of real quality, and it really might be quite a short

On Tuesday evening we've decided to tackle the choosing of Brechin's images for the Angus Cup and John Senior Trophy a little differently, and hopefully in a way that will be far more fun! We also have a 10 in 10 talk from Iain McLachlan to look forward to. Andy went some way to explain the job of the judge on Tuesday night, but for many reasons it might be beneficial to know a bit more about the process. The SPF and PAGB publish guidance for judges, which you might be inte