Mid Calder Camera Club
Season 2025-26

Wednesday 18th March - 7.30pm start

SPF Summer Portfolio Competition

The club entered this Portfolio Competition last summer and tonight will be a viewing night for the best images in the competition including a number from members of the club. The SPF Portfolio Competition is now open for entries for this year. Information will be on the SPF website for those who would like to enter images.

The date for entry to the exhibition at Howden Park Centre is the 22nd March. Jim has labels for all the images framed so they can be attached that morning before they are hung. If you can give up some time to help to hang the framed images that would be great. Watch for Dougie's email with information for this.

It is also the same day that Dougie, our Chair has managed to get us press authorisation of the Livingston United ladies game that day. Those who have expressed their attendance will get an email from Dougie with more details. So it will be a busy day.

Congratulations to all the winners in the Appraisal...more details to follow but it is known that John Love has topped the Prints A League and Russell Walker the PDI A League.

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

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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