Award winning photographer, Olive Dean finds creative insights in her beautifully tended garden. Working with natural UV from the sun she creates lumenographs, cyanotypes, cyanolumens and chemigrams.
Member Spotlight – Olive Dean
Summer Outings 2019
The Sunday Summer Outings this year will be :-
- 28th July – Lauriston Castle area.
- 25th August – St Abbs and Cove – meet Cove Harbour Carpark 11am.
- 29th September – Culross – meet Culross Car Park 11am.
Each outing will meet at 11am in the main car park.
Lauriston Castle is reached by the LRT Davidson’s Mains Buses: 21, 41
and Silverknowes Terminus Buses: 16, 27, 29, 37
In August and September we will car pool so if you need a lift or a willing to give someone a lift please let us know.
Lunch venue recommendations for these areas are sought!
WPPD 2019
Pinhole day 2019 photowalk – links and images.
Thanks to everyone who made it out on Sunday, great weather and company for producing a wide variety of pinhole images.
Add your image from the day to pinholeday.org. Work must be submitted to them by 31st May to be included in the 2019 on-line exhibition. (Select Edinburgh LoFi in the gallery group option.)
Images added can be found in the Edinburgh LoFi Gallery
Email images in for our website at any time, we all want to see the cameras made and how the images made turned out. DIY instructions, tips and tricks used welcome.
See Ali’s and Donald’s images and cameras on their blogs.
And from Graeme via Flickr –
Pinhole Day 28th April 2019
This years pinhole photo walk will take us around historic Musselburgh.
We will meet outside the Brunton auditorium (Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AA) at 10:30am and meander through the historic and modern parts, also taking in the river and shore. The LRT buses 26, 30 and 44 stop just outside the Brunton.
We will have a stop for coffee at 11:30am and then go on to lunch about 1:30pm.
Everyone is welcome and we will have plenty of spare cameras and advice for first time pinhole photographers. Please email if you have any questions.
Check out our other pinhole photography posts for inspiration and DIYs.
Donate a postcard to #TAE19
Call for Artists – Twitter Art Exhibit: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND #TAE19
OPEN TO ALL PROFESSIONAL & AMATEUR ARTISTS WORLDWIDE WORKING IN 2D MEDIUMS
Visit their site to register and donate.
Benefiting Art in Healthcare https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/
Opening daySaturday 11th May 2019 5:30pm-8:30pm at
Out of the Blue Drill Hall. The show runs from May 11th to May 13th, 2019 and thereafter sales will continue online
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Monday 29th April 2019 – to be included in the exhibition.
12th April to be included in the TAE19 Catalogue.
Almanac – Opening Reception
We will be having a little drinks reception to introduce the exhibition.
From 5:30pm 6th March.
Almanac Exhibition
Events gone by in past years herald those forthcoming in the new. Edinburgh LoFi’s new members exhibition – Almanac – uses traditional, alternative and lomographic photographic processes to record the weather, tides, star paths, seasonal events of the past calendar and personal journeys.
2nd March (Saturday) to 29th March (Friday) 2019
Art and Design Department,
Central Library,
George IV Bridge,
Edinburgh
http://edinburghlofi.com/news/exhibitions/almanac/
The exhibition at the Art and Design Library contains work by:
Alan Borthwick
Sheila Borthwick
Olive Dean
Brittonie Fletcher
Mandy Kerr
Ali Millar
Graeme Pow
Elaine Robson
Roddy Shippin
John Sumpter
and “Uncredited”.
The Edinburgh LoFi group was started nine years ago at the Beyond Words photography bookshop to promote and explore film photography at its most amazing. The group is now run collectively.
Almanac
We are pleased to announce the dates for our next group exhibition –
Saturday 2nd March to Friday 29th March 2019
at the
Art and Design Library, Edinburgh Central Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
December Print Swap
We will be having a festive print swap at our next meeting on December 11th. Bring one photographic print no bigger than A4 to be randomly swapped on the evening. An anonymising envelope will be provided.
Also find out the results of the “loo-men” experiments!
Dundee and Tentsmuir
Wonderful weather for our final Summer Sunday photography outing of 2018.
We started under the Tay Bridge –
Before crossing to see the new V&A and having our usual modest lunch in Dundee city center!
We rounded off the day by visiting Tentsmuir Forest and Beach for some seawater cyanotypes and exploration.
Our next regular 2nd Tuesday monthly meeting is on the 9th of October, everyone welcome. Bring your Russian Cameras and prints as it it Red October all month.