Mid Calder Camera Club
Season 2025-26

Wednesday 4th March - 7.30pm start

Preparation night for Howden Park Centre Exhibition

The Robin Drysdale Trophy is with Mid Calder for the third year in a row....thanks to Sam Hanlon (again) and his landscape skills. His winning image was pretty amazing... and we did have a few other nice images in the mix that did well. This week we are getting images ready, mounting and framing, for our Exhibition at Howden Park Centre. Always an exciting event for us. So bring images you want to be included and frames if you have them. There are a few frames that Howden Park Centre provide for us to use, so let Dougie or Gordon know if you need some.

The following week , March 11th is our last appraisal of the session and we will find out who are top of the various leagues. 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