Fort William Photographic Society

Programme of Events
2025/26

Potential new members are invited to join us as guests for up to 2 nights at £3.50 for a club night and £5 for a speaker. This will be reimbursed if you join.

Doors open at 7:00 for a 7:15 start unless otherwise stated.

Formal Programme 2025/26. Please return as new events will be added.

Sept 2nd: As a new addition to the FWPS website, all members will be able to have their own galleries of photographs and a link to their personal websites or social media pages. Tonight we want you to bring up to 12 photographs to share with us and to hand in as your submission. Tell us about the images and the story behind them, explain any challenges and why each image is special to you. If you can’t select your top 12 bring a MAXIMUM of 20 and we will help you make the selection. Bring the link/s you want added to your gallery written down for inclusion. (Organiser = Ewan)

Sept 16th: Antarctica in words and pictures. Visiting speakers Melvin and Louise Giles. (Organiser = Claire)

October 7th: Member’s evening sharing photographs of seascapes and cloudscapes. Please bring images that show a variety of content and techniques. Bring up to 12 images for discussion and critique. (Organiser = Nigel)

October 21st: Andy Askey. An evening of Cyanotypes. Photography without a camera.

November 4th: An evening of travel photography from around the world with Stuart Moralee.

Stuart will present some images from his travels over the last 50 years, mainly in the Himalayan countries (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet and China), but also in Antarctica and the Americas. Cultural issues regarding photography in these regions will also be discussed.

November 18th: Gillian Sloan from The Gallery in the Fort, Fort William High Street, will demonstrate some framing and mounting possibilities and talk about the services she offers. As we are aiming to hold an exhibition in 2026 this will be invaluable advice. (Organiser = Armando).

December: Social evening. Date 3rd December. Organise Andy.

January: no meetings.

February 3rd. From low to high. Seascape photography on Lewis and Harris islands in the Outer Hebrides. Club member Maksim will talk about amazing places for photography, new experiences and also show drone footage.

February 17th. Night street photography. A walk along the High Street with cameras. Organiser Roger. Weather looking good so meet inside the hall at 7pm and we will walk into town at 7:15 sharp returning to the hall at 8:45. Bring tripods if you wish to take longer exposures, light trails or avoid high ISOs.

March 3rd: Jack Maris Landscape photography. Guest Speaker from Applecross. See his website here. (Organiser = Claire).

March 17th. Guest speaker Phil Beale will give a presentation on drone photography. (Organiser = Nigel).

April 7th. Tim Parkin, who lives in Ballachulish, will be the visiting speaker this evening. Tim is a British landscape photographer, writer, and co-founder of On Landscape magazine, where he explores the art and practice of photographing the natural world. Alongside his photography and writing, he co-founded the Natural Landscape Photography Awards and serves as a judge for international competitions. Through all these projects, Parkin has become a respected and influential voice in contemporary landscape photography.

Title: Still Developing

“Photography has played a significant role in my life from being bought a Zenith-E film camera when I was 11 to rediscovering photography in my 30s as a way to recover from a back injury. Since then, photography has found a way to create a deeper engagement with the land and finally, enabled a move to Lochaber. I hope to talk about this journey and along on the way discuss my involvement in various competitions, how I found film photography (again) and the embryonic idea of a landscape photography magazine that has now been running for nearly two decades.”

(Organiser = Claire)

April 21st Member Arthur Campbell will share his photographs on the theme of Scottish landscapes, Small Isle sea life and macro photography.

May 5th AGM

May 19th An evening discovering the potential of AI to critique photographs. A fun, final evening to close the formal programme. Bring images – good and bad – to challenge AI. Will AI ever replace a judge?? Let’s find out. (Organiser Claire but open to any help from anyone with more some knowledge on this subject).

Informal summer programme begins:

June one date TBC

July one date TBC

August one date TBC

FWPS – Past Speakers & Programmes of Events