Macro, Still life, Portraits, street seem to have been the themes in March, alternating with travel photos from around the globe.
From Visions FB page March 2019
Blog
From Visions FB page Feb 2019
February saw an outing to photograph squirrels and birds, indoor fun with light bulbs going up in smoke, splashing strawberries and portraits. Earlier we had a cold outdoor shoot doing light trails on the AWPR followed by warming coffee courtesy of Steve at Kippie Lodge.
From Visions FB page January 2019
A hugely varied collection despite being one of the darker and colder months. Some nice collections from Derek Gray, interestingly lit portraits by Kevin Dawson and Martin Harrower, travel photos from Japan from Annette Murty, Spain from Graeme Youngson, club nights from Pamela, etc etc. Click on any of the images to see a slideshow with the photographer’s name underneath.
December 2018 FB images
December was the month when we had a fire spinning outing to the beach, reported earlier. Below a selection of some of the many images posted on Facebook.
-
Trevor Stuchbury -
Susan Gordon -
Sharron Forsythe -
Rob Romani -
Martin Harrower -
Kevin Dawson -
Lynda Gordon -
Derek Gray -
Kevin Dawson -
Graeme Youngson -
Graeme Youngson -
Anna Horne -
Annette Murty -
David Davidson -
Alan Meek -
David Davidson -
Lynda Gordon -
David Davidson -
Graeme Youngson -
Alan Meek -
Anna Horne -
Alan Meek
Fire Spinning II December 6
A chilly starlit thursday night at the beach saw another fire event with Kevin as the main firebrand, ably assisted by Alan, Michele and Anna.
Burning wire wool, torches for letter writing and sparklers were used. Interesting to see the different versions of the same event, even the colours are sometimes dramatically different.
Kevin Dawson 
Anna Horne 
Anna Horne 
Anna Horne 
David Davidson 
Kirsty Russell 
Michele Emsley 
David Davidson 
David Davidson 
Karen Burgoyne 
Michele Emsley 
Sharron Forsythe 
Rob Romani 
Michele Emsley 
Michele Emsley
Trevor Stuchbury 
Martin Harrower 
Karen Burgoyne 
Eileen Rodgers 
Eileen Rodgers
Polarised!
Thursday 22 November we had a workshop on `Photography using Cross Polarisation organised by Michele Emslie. As you can see this involves using an LCD screen as the light source. This emits polarised light, in other words the light generated by the screen comes out in  a narrow angle. We all had polarising filters on our cameras and by rotating these we can block most of the light from the screen so it appears black or a dark magenta (Apple Retina screens).
At the top our light source (the Led’s in the laptop screen). Then the polarising filter (the Liquid Cristal Display), at the bottom the polarising filter on the camera rotated by 90 degrees so the screen appear dark.If we then put a transparent  object in front of the screen that has some degree of polarising capability (because of internal stress or molecular structure) the polarised light gets rotated and not blocked anymore by the polarising filter on the camera. Clear plastic things like cups, cutlery, CD case, safety specs all do this to varying degrees, as you can see from the images captured on the night. The different colours are related to the thickness and the stress in the plastic, the light gets rotated more when the plastic is thicker, as it has to travel a longer path.
This image by Alan Meek shows that the laptop screen appears black, because he has his polarising filter at 90 degrees to the light emitted by the laptop screen. The forks rotate the light a bit so some of it is not blocked by the filter.A few images of club members in action, we had to turn the lights off in the room to avoid reflections and spoiling the colours, hence it was a bit dark apart from the laptops lighting up the room.
The women’s section: Susan, Kirsty and Eileen.
Team Murty
Alan Meek at work, with (L2R) Michele, David and Martin in the background.
Michele checking if Trevor is following the instructions?
Mike from Team Murty at the controls.
Trevor fine tuning his set up. You can see that the screen is dark but the plastic cup is bright, as I took this shot with a polarising filter on my camera.
Kirsty Russell took this shot after drinking most of the Pimm’s. 😉
Another still life of the Pimm’s jug, this one by Susan. Obviously no Pimm’s left at all now!
David Drage made these plastic chess pieces specially for the event!!
Crossing forks and crossed polarisers by David Drage.
In sharp focus by Trevor Stuchbury.
Forked specs by Trevor.
Triangular composition by Alan Meek.
Clearly empty by Susan Gordon.We all enjoyed this evening and since this is easy to do once you know how, I’m hoping to see more of these images from our Visionaires. Â Many thanks to Michele Emslie for organising the evening.
From The FB page October 2018
October shots have an autumn theme, red squirels by Hugh Smith and Alan Meek, Madasgaskar talk by Lynda Gordon ( a few of those here). Wildlife, weddings and a few shots from our pole dancing shoot at the club.
From the FB page September 2018
September brought us the talent evening shoot, macro photos, street photography, the V&A Dundee and landscape shots.
Malcolm Wilson
Susan Gordon
Rob Romani
Sharron Forsyth
Tony Jones
Steve Roberts
Steve Roberts
From the Visions FB page August 2018
August saw a number of outdoor excursions to the Sawmill at Finzean, the Bridges over the Dee, Kincorth nature reserve. Below a small selection plucked from FaceBook
