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Well done to Alan Stewart, our Syllabus Secretary for setting up an outstanding autumn session at Kilmaurs this year.

This period included a night of presentations by David Moulds, a winner of awards in the “Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year” competitions. David gave us a great show of landscape photography and then described his work in “Encaustic Fine Art,” selling his work on-line and at craft fairs.

The following week, we held our informal Small Prints Competition, judged by our own members collectively, and ably won by Kevin Thorne, our president, with a superb golf shot. All prints were provided with expert commentary by our own, Robert Spence.

Later, we ventured down to join Ayr Photographic Society for our annual friendly ‘Battle.’

Judged by Irvine’s Clive Watkins, this was a close-run affair. Kilmaurs members were quite apprehensive prior to the judging, especially as Ayr had recently taken the Scottish trophy at the Scottish Federation’s projected image competition. Well, satisfyingly, Kilmaurs just edged a win 335 points to 333 points, in a super show of photographic prints and images from both clubs

A great autumn season was capped off by the Rose Urie Competition and finally a tuition night where, Martin Clark and Ian Mortimer gave hands-on demonstrations of studio lighting.

An excellent series of events prior to the Xmas break.

Jim Stevenson retained the trophy in our first League competition of the 2024/5 season. His winning digital image, was this superb shot of a tiny blue tit taking a drop of water from a tap, its beak open and its little tongue catching the water. Congratulations, Jim!!

A couple of other successful digital images are also shown here too, both sharing second place in the digital category – thee were “Male Kingfisher” by Dale Powell – one of Dale’s specialist subjects, and the atmospheric “Dawn Raider” by Martin Clark. Well done to both!!

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Our Exhibition of Prints has now been set up in the main corridor of University Hospital Crosshouse, Kilmarnock. A great selection of 45 framed prints has been provided by club members. The display certainly brightens up the corridor, provides the club with a bit of exposure in the local community, and gives members a chance to sell their prints at reasonable prices. The exhibition runs until the 13^th December 2024. It is really worth a look if you are in the area.

Our eagerly awaited first competition of the year, the Quig Quaich Competition, attracted a wide range of entries across the six topics.   

In the “Watercraft” section, the majority of the images came from a club outing to the white-water canoeing centre at Pinkston, with other images from various river and canal locations around the UK. 

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Over the summer we’ve managed to get some members out there with cameras. Action, architecture, landscapes and wildlife were all exposed in our summer challenges. Our earliest photo opportunity was a trip to Pinkston Water Park, in Glasgow to capture kayakers doing their white-water stuff. Further club outings took our members near and far to places like Bowling Harbour, Balmaha, Kilwinning Abbey, Glencoe, Culzean Castle Park, and Loudoun Old Kirk.

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