Scottish Photographic Federation
Visions is a member of the SPF who arrange a variety of events we can take part in. See here for a link to the SPF home page
Useful websites
- Camera Price buster (great website for finding the best prices)
- DP Review (was probably the best of the camera test sites, but now closing down)
- Imaging Resource (has the best lens tests online)
- Camera size comparison (handy to see how big different cameras are, and you can attach different lenses)
- Thom Hogan (Nikon guru and photo industry critic)
- Cambridge in Colour (has very good educational articles)
- Classic Cases (www.classiccases.co.uk) a local maker of very nice leather camera cases and straps.
Inspirational websites
These have photography as their main purpose, not photographic gear!
- Lensculture (good website about contemporary photography)
- Jane Bown (on the Guardian site, she was one of Britain’s foremost portrait photographers)
- The Guardian photography pages (excellent stuff)
- FOAM Website of the photography gallery in Amsterdam
- Vivian Maier Amazing images by a woman who died before anyone saw her stunning street photography work.
- Charlie Waite One of Britain’s best landscape photographers
- Simon Baxter. Outstanding Woodland images.
- Darren Heath – Professional motorsport photographer. Amazing Formula One images, arty, colourful use of motion blur. Awarded Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic society.
- David Ward – Artistic landscape photographer, often discovering images that everyone else overlooks.