On Tuesday night, Steve Whittaker ARPS returned to the club to discuss our entries for the Main Project, and his feedback was as constructive and thought provoking as always. This season was a close run thing, but Steve finally chose Ian Bain's project entitled Claymore Blacksmiths as his winning project, with Jennifer Moffat's Toys and Games a very close second. Kevin Thomson's New York set and Ben Freeman's Rattray Coastguard Cottages images were 3rd equal. Claymore Black

Tonight we are delighted to welcome back Steve Whittaker to the club to offer his feedback on our Main Project submissions. A slightly disappointing entry this year (perhaps due to the amount of other competitions on the go), but nevertheless a lot of pictures for Steve to talk about, and the quality of the entries is terrific. Steve's feedback is always really constructive and helpful, so even if you didn't enter, come along tonight and I'm sure you will learn something pos

Perhaps slightly less exciting than the recent South Africa v England Twenty20 series, but no less entertaining, this week we welcome members of Carnoustie Photo Group to join in our discussion of the images we exchanged earlier in the season. This year we have sought to make the process more meaningful, by exchanging RAW/unedited JPEG images, which has given much more scope to be creative with the editing process. Hayley and I were at Carnoustie Photo Group last Thursday to

Thank you to everyone who came along to the judging of the Print of the Year competition tonight. The standard of photography gets better and better. We are very grateful to Roy Robertson HonFRPS for judging for us again, and providing such in depth feedback - there was a lot to learn from his comments on all the images tonight I thought. I have asked Roy for a copy of his scoresheet, so will let you have the scores ASAP, but the winners were as follows: - Colour Print of t

Tomorrow night is the penultimate judging night of the year, with the flagship Colour and Mono Print of the Year competitions being decided. We are delighted to be welcoming Roy Robertson HonFRPS to the club again to give his verdict on our prints, and to choose the winners. There is no question that the quality of images improves year after year, and it promises to be a fascinating evening, with one of the country's top judges. Last year both trophies were won by Hayley-Jan