One exciting feature of the upcoming PPS season is our new novice development programme. After last year’s pilot scheme, this year we’re offering a more structured support to members who identify as novice photographers. Check out our Novices page and see some more Before and After images from our current ‘novices’.
Meanwhile, you can get a taste of what we do at our current exhibition at Birnam Arts, which runs until Sun 08 Oct (closed Thu 05 Oct). Around half of the images on display are by members who have been in our pilot novice group! We have Meet the Artists days on: Fri 29 Sep; Tue 03 Oct; Fri 06 Oct.
We all like a good photo, do we not – but do the photos we take match what we feel when we take them? How can we convey ‘that moment’ better?
Many PPS Members have found that joining a club gives them greater insight into how to take and make a good photo.
Our exhibition in Birnam Arts has over 50 prints, with another 70+ digital images on display – and around half of these are by new members who have never exhibited before.
“Following my dream trip to Antarctica in December 22 I joined the Perthshire Photographic Society, which has greatly helped me to grow my photography skills through the support, guidance, and inspiration of other members” – Nicole
“Until now, I have never shown any of my photographs to anyone other than my family and friends. I do enjoy photography, and thanks to my PPS mentor, I now have the confidence to show some of my images” – Paul
You can catch their work at our current exhibition at Birnam Arts, which runs until 08 Oct.
On Wednesday 20 Sep you will be able to meet some of the artists with work on the wall in our exhibition at Birnam Arts.
Ian and John will again have a few co-artists available most of the day to show you round, answer questions, talk to you about photography, point you to the cafe, and more!
They’re just some of the 20 artists exhibiting prints between now and 08 Oct.
Watch out for other dates, with other artists to speak to, during the exhibition’s run. You can of course visit at other times too, whenever the gallery is open.
This Thursday at Birnam Arts you can visit our exhibition, and meet some of the artists with work on the wall.
Ian, John and Bob will be available most of the day to show you round, answer questions, talk to you about photography, point you to the cafe, and more!
They’re three of the 22 artists exhibiting prints between now and 08 Oct.
Perthshire Photographic Society is one of the oldest of its kind in Scotland, maybe even the UK. Lots of PPs members are very experienced photographers.
We have been closely involved with Birnam Arts for many years, running a biennial exhibition of work until Sun 08 Oct 23. The 2023 exhibition is in place, and was informally opened on Saturday with a gathering of almost 50 members and their significant others.
But this year, something is different. In 2023, many of our exhibitors are new to PPS, some are even new to photography, and are showing their work, in public, for the very first time. For many people it is quite a daunting challenge – to print your picture, get it framed and hang it on a gallery wall for strangers to look at. This year, more than half of our prints are by people who have never exhibited in public before. Come along. Take a look at the pictures and give your feedback.
The prints are just upstairs from the cafe, which is itself an ideal destination for light meals and snacks, and quick to get to from Perth now all the lanes on the A9 are fully open. Also accessible by train!
Perthshire Photographic Society’s biennial exhibition of members’ work will be running at Birnam Arts in Birnam, from 09 Sep – 08 Oct.
We’re asking members and supporters to help spread the word by picking up some printed publicity materials and arranging for them to be displayed somewhere visible to suit the timing of the show. .
We have both posters and flyers, available for collection during opening hours at e-Computers on Kinnoull Street, where ace photographer/ proprietor Chas has them stashed under the counter.
The A4 posters are intended for anywhere willing to put up something of this size – take a couple if you think you can can find a prominent location for them.
The A5 flyers are double-sided, suitable for putting out as a pile, handing out to those interested, or displaying both sides as a pair – take a dozen or two.
More news of the exhibition itself will follow over the coming weeks…..
Twenty-seven of us gathered for the annual end-of-season dinner, the first for a while, and this time at Cardo on South Street. Company, ambience, service, food – all wonderful. Twenty-five and a half are pictured, with one holding the camera, and half of Lizzie missing through an artifact of the pano-stitching.
There was also prizegiving, with forty certificates and eight trophies for our internal competitions, plus the Millennium Quaich for distinguished achievement. Congratulations to all the winners, the highly placed, the less-highly-placed, and everyone who supported all our activities through the season in all sorts of ways. This includes a great number of SIgnificant Others, some of whom joined us for the evening – lovely to see you all.
Big thanks, too, to Lizzie and Vicki for taking responsibility for the tea table in the breaks each week.
We’ll meet back again in October. In the meantime, our Facebook Group at Perth Photo Forum will continue over the summer as ‘an online place to learn from discussion of photography, by and for the people of Perth, Perthshire, Perth and Kinross, and surroundings’. So, not just for PPS members. And not just online – we also arrange a series of sociable photo walks. We’ll hope to see you out with your camera over the summer. Bon Voyages!
The stage is set, reports prepared, projector tested – now to welcome a good complement of members to participate in the Annual General Meeting, for a review of the season just finishing, and a look forward to the season to come in October.
We followed the traditional format, to hear reports from office-bearers providing an overview of such areas as Programme (above), Internal Competitions (below), and others. Also to appoint a new committee, who will continue to meet over the summer while making arrangements for next season.
Presiding over the committee, the president is appointed for a 2-year term, supported for the first year of that by the immediate past president.
This year saw such a handover, as Graham Robb (above) stepped back, and Ian Mackay (below) stepped forward.
This was our last meeting at the library for the current season – next week we meet in a restaurant, for a sociable feast and for prizegiving. We’ll take a break from accepting new members, and will re-open our membership form in time for the start of next season.
In the meantime, our Facebook Group at Perth Photo Forum will continue over the summer as ‘an online place to learn from discussion of photography, by and for the people of Perth, Perthshire, Perth and Kinross, and surroundings’. So, not just for PPS members. And not just online – we also arrange a series of sociable photo walks. We’ll hope to see you out with your camera over the summer. Bon Voyages!
