President's Welcome - 9th September

Ken Lindsay kicked off the season with a fantastic President's welcome and gave an overview of the syllabus and guest speakers that will be featuring this year. With the perils of Covid still looming, we were unable to present the trophy winners with their trophies in the hall. Ken visited each prizewinner in person to present them with their trophy and took photos which were shown to all on the first night.

So far this season we have already enjoyed a wide range of events:

- Guest speaker Andrea Hargreaves presented a bespoke package of 'The art of metamorphosis' to Eastwood members. A very original and creative display of images, Andrea went through her creative process and unique style.

- Valuable post processing skills and advice was presented from Keith Beard, Colin McLatchie, Alistair Cassidy and Peter De Marco.

- External outing to Paisley Watermill Hotel.

- Informal Critique for newer members and the Summer Challenge competition.

- Very informative infrared photography presented by David Hendry with some fantastic technical and interesting background information and some further Lightroom workflow tips from Chris Everett.

We are pleased to report that we have a few new members this season and hope they will enjoy proceedings at the club, whether that be on Zoom or once we get to return to the hall to meet in person.

So we now look ahead for the start of the upcoming competitions and challenges for 2021 - 22. Good luck to all and bring it on!!!!

Results of the GDPU League 2021

Eastwood Photographic Society         269 points

Carluke Camera Club                           261 points

Strathaven Camera Club                     253 points

Queens Park Camera Club                  248 points

Alba Camera Club                                 239 points

East Kilbride Camera Club                   234 points

Eastwood came top of the GDPU League with a convincing victory, 8 points clear of second place Carluke.

Malcolm Martin scored the top 20 points with Peek-a-Two and Keith Beard also scored 20 for Lion Ant. 

A further five images from 4 different authors scored 19 points . Some of the winning images are shown below.

Division 1

Winner - Ken Lindsay

Runner up - Keith Beard

Division 2

Winner  - Paul Deacon

Runner up - Paul Millar

Congratulations to Ken, Keith, Paul and Paul for their results and outstanding images throughout the season. Commiserations to James and Grant on their demotion to Division 2.

Both divisions continue to be highly competitive with large competition entries from all members. We had great success in running sessions via Zoom this season.  

Hope to see you all soon in the next season.