Welcome to Our Winter Syllabus
2026
3rd September
Club Night
What I did on my summer holidays.
7th September
Workshop
10th September
Secret Life of Foxes
Kirsten Ferguson
Deadline for Summer Assignment
17th September
Within The Light
Searching for Light Within Landscape and Nature Photography
Neil MacGregor
24th September - via Zoom
From Barbie to Physics!
A walk (or run) through Mark's photography styles and techniques, where physics is / can be an important part!
As for Barbie… every talk title needs a little mystery :-)
Mark Hunter
Deadline for Bowie
1st October
Summer Assignment
Margaret Lothian
8th October
Print Talk
Peter Patterson
12th October
Workshop
15th October
George Birnie Memorial Lecture
A Life in Antarctica
Michael Gloistein
Deadline for First Bimonthly
22nd October
Bowie Competition
Karen Berry
Deadline for Print - Extra week needed because 3 weeks before judging falls on a Zoom meeting
29th October - via Zoom
Photography on the Darkside Home and Abroad
Peter takes us to places abroad such as New York, Berlin, Florence, Seville, Lisbon, and Munich. Also we’ll visit places outside London like Cambridge and Glasgow. Along the way he will be dropping in some hits and tips as well as some antidotes and a bit of history about the locations.
Peter Benson
Deadline for Creative
5th November
1st Bimonthly Competition
Dave Ferguson
12th November
Mastering Digital Mono
Libby Smith
Deadline for Monochrome
16th November
Workshop
19th November
Creative and Print Competitions
Brian Cathie
26th November - via Zoom
John, a former Sports Broadcaster and TV Newsreader, shares his photography with us, from the world of sport and beyond.
John Boyd
3rd December
Monochrome Competition
Cameron Scott
10th December
Monochrome Moods:
Glasgow and Beyond Through the Lens of a Newcomer
Shamil Khairov
14th December
Workshop
17th December
President's Night / 20-a-Piece
Deadline for Small Prints / Mobile
Small prints accepted before this date
2027
7th January - via Zoom
An Introduction to Street Photography:
Process and Practice
Michael McIlvaney
14th January
Small Prints / Mobile Competitions
Membership Vote
Deadline for Second Bimonthly
18th January
Workshop
21st January
GDPU League Match East Kilbride
Review of SPF Portfolios Competition
Marty McNaughton
28th January
Chasing Tractors
Immersive Project Photography
Rob Davies
Deadline for Borbasket / Anderson
4th February
Second Bimonthly
George Robertson
11th February
Winifred Brown Memorial Lecture
From Coast to Cairn.
A journey from the coast of the Moray Firth and its Dolphins and Gannets to the moors and mountains where we find the Mountain Hare, Ptarmigan and Dotterel, stopping at all points in between.
Andy Howard
18th February
Borbasket / Anderson
Deadline for Third Bimonthly
22nd February
Workshop
25th February - via Zoom
Whatever the Weather
Lizzie Shepard
4th March
Club Night
11th March
3rd Bimonthly Competition
Gordon Scott
18th March
Hen Harriers and other Iconic Raptors. Progress on a challenging Wildlife photography project.
Richard Bennett
Deadline for Annual Henderson
22nd March
Workshop
25th March - via Zoom
Travel and Documentary Photography
Our Approach
James Frost
Hazel Frost
1st April
Club Night
8th April
John Henderson Annual Digital Championship
John McVie
12th April
Workshop
15th April
Lighthouse
The Last Lighthouse Keepers of Scotland on large format film. Conor talks to us about his ongoing series where he captures portraits of Scotland’s former lighthouse keepers on location across Scotland whilst also aiming to capture their memories of the lighthouse stations where they once lived and worked.
Conor Gault
22rd April
Annual General Meeting
AGM + Presentation of Awards and Social Evening