During July 19 - 22 2025, Aberdeen hosted the Tall Ships Race. 49 sailing ships arrived in Aberdeen harbour ranging in size from small sailing yachts to large 3 and 4 master barques. They provide an opportunity for young people to experience life on a large ocean-going sailing ship. We spoke to a couple of... Continue Reading →
Quarterly Competition – Architecture – 26 June 2025
Mark Reeves was our judge for this event. He gave an excellent presentation on his architectural photography at the beginning of the competition. His website can be found here: https://markreevesphotography.co.uk/home Several of his striking images had very dark skies. Not surprisingly, quite a few of us produced similar photos. In these, boring grey skies had... Continue Reading →
18 Months in India – A presentation by Kevin Fidler
I met Kevin Fidler on a David Ward photo workshop in the Picos de Europa. He is an ex police Detective Inspector turned keen amateur photographer. After the trip we linked up on Facebook. About a year or so ago, he started posting amazing photos he was taking in India. It wasn't clear to me... Continue Reading →
Quarterly Competition – People
Visions run a quarterly competition with a different theme each time. Photos must have been taken in the 3 months prior. So no going through the archives to find a shot from 50 years ago! This Spring the theme was "People". The voting was done online by the members in the usual way without being... Continue Reading →
Visions at the beach – Fire and Light
On Thursday 6th March 2025 we organised an evening with fire spinning and light painting run by former club members Alan Meek and Kevin Dawson. For some years they have specialised in creating things that don't look like much when you are there, but turn into amazing things when you look at the long exposure... Continue Reading →
The Polaroid SX70 – and a little bit about the history of Instant Photography.
Until digital photography came along, photography involved a long delay between pressing the shutter and seeing the results. We had to wait for the development of the film and printing the results or wait for the slides to come back from the lab. And there was no way to see what you had photographed immediately... Continue Reading →