Mid Calder Camera Club
Season 2025-26

Wednesday 24th February - 7.30pm start

Robin Drysdale Trophy: Landscape Competition

Armadale, Blackridge and Mid Calder Camera Clubs

We will be hosting this year....the third time this trophy has been contested. It is a landscape only competition in memory of Robin Drysdale whose family donated the trophy to hold the competition in his memory. Mid Calder have been lucky to win the trophy the last two years with Margaret Lothian and Sam Hanlon having their names on the trophy. The judge is David Spinks. As we are hosting it would be good if some goodies could be brought along for catering for the people who will attend from our own and the other clubs.

And a reminder the next appraisal is March 11th and Jim would like all entries to be in by Wednesday 25th February so he can have time to make sure the judge has the images in time to appraise them. Prints are open and for the pdi choices one has to be a Natural Portrait.

Lights, Camera, Action

A practical night was on the syllabus last Wednesday night when members enjoyed playing with LED lights and a model. Gemma , the daughter of a former club member Craig endured a night of posing with various LED lights to great effect. Assisted mainly by Dougie C and Peter B various lighting effects were tried out to varying degrees of success but overall a great night was had by all members who attended. Big thanks to Gemma, Dougie and Peter and all other members who all cont

4 x 20

Appraisal 2 was judged for the first time since the big C word was around by Zoom. Appraiser Brian Mercer from Elgin cast his eye over the 74 images submitted and gave his opinion on members efforts. Four images gained top marks Richard M with 2 images and Margaret L and Russell W the others. The pdi section continued with a set subject of " Close up " where members showed varying interpretations of the challenge. A good number of other authors gained scores of 18 and 19 poin

Ladies Night

Members Caroline L and Sheila C joined forces for two completely different presentations at one of the club's 50:50 nights. First up was Sheila with a showing of images from Doha in the Middle East. Some fantastic buildings were expertly captured by Sheila along with other images of life in the City. After the break Caroline took the floor with a show of largely nature images from a summer trip to the Shetland Isles.

Mid Calder Camera Club Season 2025-26