Photography for the Falkirk Camera Club 60th Anniversary

On the 14 of October 2017, I took some images to replicate a group portrait of the Committee of the Falkirk Amateur Photographic Association (FAPA), taken in 1898.

The club as we know it today, was renamed Falkirk Camera Club (FCC) at its AGM of April 17th 1958, hence the preparations of 60th anniversary were in full swing.

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FAPA group portrait taken in 1958

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FCC committee members 2018

Falkirk Camera Club Friends and Members

Over the last few years I have done various workshops at the FCC and I still visit some of their clubnights to get inspired and feel the community spirit. It was therefore an honour to be asked to take these historic images.

The images were taken at Callendar House in Falkirk on exactly the same location at 60 years ago.

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For more information about the Falkirk Camera Club, visit their website via the link below:

Some Shots From The Local Area

With less editing jobs to do over the weekends and the weather improving, I am getting out a bit more by car, by foot or a combination of both. Sometimes with camera.

In the slideshow below in aspect ratio 16:9, you will find images taken in Falkirk, the surrounding countryside of Stirling, Carronbridge, North Third and Kilsyth.

The slideshow starts with two shots taken from a recreational area in Falkirk between Princes Park and Callander Park. A great place with good views over Falkirk and the Forth Valley and the countryside south of the town towards Shieldhill. The third image represents something where the United Kingdom is an example for The Netherlands as it generates 25% of it's energy consumption through renewable energy sources like wind and water power, heat-pumps and not surprisingly to a lesser extend solar energy. The fourth image is taken at North Third Reservoir. The overview landscape over Falkirk, Grangemouth refinery and in the distance the New Forth Road Bridge, is taken from the carpark at the Tak-Ma Doon Road between Carron Bridge and Kilsyth. In the last two images you see Stirling Castle and The Wallace Monument.

Some shots during walks from Falkirk:

Great walks from Lionthorn Falkirk via Glen Burn, up the hill towards Westerglen Transmitting Station.

Carron Valley:

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Bracklinn Falls in Callander, Stirlingshire

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F11, 10s, ISO100, see further details under the image below

The Loup of Fintry waterfall Stirlingshire

Loup of Fintry waterfall is on the River Endrick in the Carron Valley. It is 29m high in the Endrick River and feeds the Carron Reservoir. 

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Canon 5DS with old 70-200 f2.8L, to fit the 77mm ND filter. The 6 stops B+W Neutral Density filter allows for long shutter speeds during daylight to achieve a nice milky water flow. Focal length 70mm, F8, 3.2s, ISO50.

Loch Lomond:

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A bit further afield:

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Upper Glendevon Reservoir

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Laide in the North West of Scotland

The River Forth

The river starts at Loch Ard in the Trossachs, a mountainous area 19 miles west of Stirling. Just west of Stirling the river Teith joins the forth and at Stirling the river becomes tidal. It widens eastwards and becomes the estuary Forth or Firth of Forth and eventually ends in the North Sea.

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The start of the River Forth at Aberfoyle

All images by Vincent Hartman