Annual Exhibition 2020

Our Annual Exhibition had to be cancelled this year because of the Coronavirus restrictions but a selection of photographs by our members can be seen here.

An ever changing landscape

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Maggie Jary - Taken during London Fashion Week last year. I saw this person approaching so simply asked if I could take her photo. I half expected a rejection but she was very obliging and then gave me this wonderful stare.

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Put your right leg out

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Banksia flowers

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Mair Braw Furrows

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Anne Christie - taken at Eyemouth Harbour

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Anne Christie - taken at St Abbs Head

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Anne Christie - taken on Tiree

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Anne Christie - taken on Tiree

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New York Police Department

Jeanette Conlan - This was taken several years ago but I have just applied a cartoon effect in Photoshop to the image

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Paul Anderson - I had to wait 2 hours for the right light but it was worth it

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Paul Anderson - I can never resist a spiral staircase photo and the one at Seaton Delaval is one of the best

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Late night blues

Paul Anderson - the late night sessions are always the best part of the Burton Agnes and Jazz Blues Festival

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Paul Anderson - the stones at Duddo are always worth a visit, especially when the light is right

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Family Portrait

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Michael Barron - Graffiti wall art at the rear of the Sage, Gateshead.

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Venice Waterway

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Kaayak Freestyler

Michael Barron - Competitor practising his stunts at Tees Barrage.

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Art Deco Staircase

Michael Barron - Spiral staircase at Fountainbridge public library, Edinburgh.

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Sunset over Scremerston

Kathy Orchard - Scremerston sunset last January

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Kathy Orchard - glass water lilies in the Water Lily House at Kew Gardens

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Linda Foley - taken at Chain Bridge Honey Farm

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Mermaids Necklace

Linda Foley - taken on Cocklawburn beach

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Linda Foley - taken on Berwick Quay Walls

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Linda Foley - taken on Berwick Quay Walls

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Past and Present

Jeanette Conlan - n image I took at Hay Farm with the Heavy Horses pulling a plough and the modern tractor in the distance overlayed with one of my textures in photoshop to create more of a painterly effect.

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Jeanette Conlan - A compilation of pedestrians on a crossing in New York with an image of a clock face and misted over with one of my cloud textures to create the effect seen

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Jeanette Conlan - Image of the tree was overlayed with textures. Brushes created by myself of flying crows and seedheads in foreground were added using Photoshop. Inspiration came from similar types of images by Glenys Garnett

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Jeanette Conlan - Picked from friend's garden and posed in a vase with window light only and overlayed with texture in photoshop to achieve this effect.

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Annie Watt - The Tweed at Coldstream

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Annie Watt - in my back garden last summer

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Daisy and the lost ball

Annie Watt - Daisy is digging up Cocklawburn beach

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Pamela Wright - A garden experiment for 2020 produced the most irrepressibly blousy tulip.

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Pamela Wright - Minutes before this shop was taken this fella was drinking chlorinated water from a swimming pool.

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Hanging Damselfly

Pamela Wright - n my way to photograph turtles in Florida this flew past me and settled in a hedge.

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Fire in the sky over Inner farne

Pamela Wright - Taken during wettest trip to Longstone ever. The return journey however treated us to the most colourful skies.

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Kato Paphos After Dark

Derek Hood - Kato Paphos Archaeological Park - Paphos - Cyprus: A blend of ancient Greek and Roman social and cultural life; an ancient city inhabited from Prehistoric through to the Middle Ages.

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Kato Paphos After Dark

Derek Hood - Kato Paphos Archaeological Park - Paphos - Cyprus: A blend of ancient Greek and Roman social and cultural life; an ancient city inhabited from Prehistoric through to the Middle Ages.

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Kato Paphos After Dark

Derek Hood - Kato Paphos Archaeological Park - Paphos - Cyprus: A blend of ancient Greek and Roman social and cultural life; an ancient city inhabited from Prehistoric through to the Middle Ages.

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Andy Colls - Taken in about 5m off the north side of Big Harker at the Farne Islands on 7 Nov 2015. The seals as they always are in October & November were very playful. Smiler as he was nicknamed stayed with me for about 5 minutes.

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Wreck of the SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm

Andy Colls - Taken August 2015 deeep on the wreck of the SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, part of the German Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow. The wreck is upside down and the picture is of Noel Talbot in one of the gun turrets. Sadly Noel died in April of Covid19

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Andy Colls - Taken June 2012 in about 30m of water at the bow gun of the wreck of an armed Japanese merchant ship at the island of Chuuk, Micronesia in what is known as Truk Lagoon. There are numerous wrecks in the lagoon which was a Japanese anchorage du

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Andy Colls - Taken in July 2014 several miles off Isla de Majeures, Mexico where every year for about 6 weeks whale sharks, which are the worlds largest fish, gather in shoals of up to 70 to feed on eggs laid by fish.

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Mating Humpbacks

Andy Colls - Taken in Feb 2019 about 70miles north east of the Dominican Republic at a reef called Silverbanks. Humpback whales pass through from January to April every year. The picture is of a mating couple known as a Valentines.

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Off the Cape, South Africa

Andy Colls - Taken in May 2007 about 20 miles offshore from the Cape, South Africa. The water changes from the cold green colour to warm blue at about 15 miles offshore. The blue water brings in grey whales, tuna and other oceanic fish including blue shar

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Eye of a Tiger Shark

Andy Colls - Taken in the Bahamas on a reef nicknamed Tiger Bay in 2006. The depth is shallow at 6-8m so the sexually immature female tiger sharks are docile. This is the eye of one taken with at 38mm lens and demonstrates just how close the sharks come

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Andrew Green - I am always looking for different views of the local area. This was taken on the north side of the pier, just at the right time as the two people walked into the picture towards the lighthouse

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On the home straight

Andrew Green - Whilst on a business trip to Japan, one of my colleagues suggested going to the Tokyo Derby. A great day out with 120,000 other people, but I did lose 100 yen (about 70p) on a horse that only had 3 legs!

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Andrew Green - Photographing insects is one of my photographic interests, seeing these creatures in close up opens up a whole new world

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Bamburgh castle Sunrise

Andrew Green - December 31st 2016, sunrise over Bamburgh Castle taken from Spittal

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Chris Jary - This is near Kielder water. I like the thought of these two trees growing old together and keeping watch over the landscape.

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Rent a bike, steal a scooter

Chris Jary - I saw this in Berlin. By moving position I could get the bear on the scooter and the cyclist just appeared at the right time.

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Cappuccino in the shadows

Chris Jary - I took this in Newcastle near the university. A group of Chinese students were having a break. This girl was in the shade and I liked the position of her hands.

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A moment in time

Chris Jary - This one is from Manchester. I remember taking an image for the shapes and then saw a man approaching so I waited until he was in the right place.

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Sapphire Glacial Cave

Barbara Bogacka - This cave is at the edge of Breiðamerkurjökull. The picture is taken from inside towards the entrance to the cave. We can see various hollows and the complicated forms of the walls as well layers of volcanic ash.

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Barbara Bogacka = This is a fragment of a wall in another tunnel of Blue Dragon cave. Here the ice is very compacted and less transparent. Still, we can see traces of volcanic ash.

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Barbara Bogacka - A detail of a wall in Sapphire Ice Cave in Breiðamerkurjökull. Depending on the light direction, small cavities in the walls sometimes look like eyes.

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Blue Dragon Glacial Cave

Barbara Bogacka- This is one of several tunnels of the Blue Dragon glacial cave in Skeiðarárjökull, one of the outlet glaciers of Vatnajökull, the ice cap in South-East of Iceland.

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Maggie Jary - The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is a labyrinth of concrete blocks. Here I have superimposed two images. The second one was rotated 180 degree and by doing this all the exits are blocked, creating no escape for the prisoners held there.

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The Full Spectrum

Maggie Jary - A 90m long pedestrian tunnel links Kings Cross and St Pancras stations to public spaces outside. It features an LED integrated lightwall capable of emanating the full RGB spectrum and creates a moving light show with no shadows.

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Maggie Jary - This is a composite of two images. The white background was part of an art installation. I photographed an old sepia photograph of my father and combined it with the background. For me it represents the fading memory of my father.

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