Our latest competition was under the theme of “Vivid Colour”

We had a great selection of entries which can be seen by clicking on this link:

Vivid Colour Competition

Congratulations to Abigail Greig on being announced the winner.

by Abigail Greig

Manfred Nelson was in 2nd place:

by Manfred Nelson

and we had a 3 way tie for 3rd place

by Malcolm Wilson

by Zander Thomson

by John Rutherford

Thanks to all those who entered.

Well done to Kirsty Russell who won the 1st ever “Visions Photo Of The Year Contest”

A worthy winner with 81 points out of a total of 96.

Kirsty wins a full years free membership of the club.

by Kirsty Russell

Honourable mentions go to Emily Magrath who grabbed 2nd place.

by Emily Magrath

3rd place was shared between these 2 fantastic shots:

by Donna Sim

by Mel Stephens

As we are coming up to the clubs 1st birthday, this is the perfect time to launch our “Photo Of The Year.

We have 32 entries.

Which one is your favourite?

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Feel free to leave any comments.

To celebrate the coming 1st birthday Vision Photography club, I thought I’d celebrate individual members.
So in the next few weeks I will be casting the spotlight of just some of them.

In this first part, lets look and celebrate the photos of one of our founding members….

BRIAN BATTENSBY. 
A keen wildlife enthusiast, he often takes photographs of the local birds, so its fitting that the first pic he submitted to this website was this:

by Brian Battensby

Brian also as a keen sense of humour. Check out this self portrait:

by Brian Battensby

Brian has also organised a few club outings. The first of which was a great trip up to Dufftown where we visited the Glenfiddoch Distellery, Balvenie Castle and took the old diesel train to Keith and back:

By Brian Battensby

Brian has proven to be an integral part of the Visions Photography Club and has  gotten us work photographing theatre groups, canoeing events and farmer’s markets. Which in turn gives our members experience and earned the club some donations from thankful organisations.

You can see more of Brian’s work at his dedicated website:

Brianbat Photography.

And why not check out the work and websites of our other members.
The links can be found here.

The results of our “Nature” competition have been announced.

We would like to congratulate Pamela Stuart and Steve for coming in joint 3rd with their amazing photos.

by Steve

by Pamela Stuart

Amazingly 2nd place was also tied.
Well done to Darren Wright and Toby Arminshaw.

by Darren Wright

by Toby Arminshaw

But there was a clear winner.
We are proud to announce that Dod Morrison is the “Nature” Champion.
Well done Dod.

by Dod Morrison

You can see the other entrants to the “Nature” competition here.

Happy New Year to you all I hope 2012 brings many great oppertunities for great photos.

However let me update you all on what we have been doing during the festive period.

Firstly we had our first Urban Night shoot on a very cold December evening.
However the freezing temperatures did not stop us from capturing, what I think is amongst the strongest photos we have produced.

by Steve Roberts

click here to see more 

We were really pleased to be asked to do some photography for the Oz On Ice panto.
This was a great challenge but I feel we rose to the task.

by John Rutherford

More photos from the event can be found at the official FLICKR page, click here to see them.

Our next club challenge was to take photos over the festive break.

by Roger Barnett

More images from the challenge can be found by clicking here. 

Finally, the deadline for entries to our “Nature” competition came upon us.

by Pamela Stuart

 To see all the entrants (and feel free to comment on them and indeed any photos on the site) please click here.

The winner of the “Nature” competition will be announced at our next meeting on the 19th of January.

We have printed our own calender for 2012 which is available to the public to buy for £10 and for members of the club for £5.

All photographs in the calender has been taken by club members.

The Visions 2012 Calender

This is a limited print run. Once they are gone….they are gone.

John Rutherford
Club President