My PhotographyBackground notes about the authorof the EdinPhoto web site:Peter Stubbs |
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Early Photography - Yorkshire |
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School Photo My interest in photography began while I was living in Bradford, Yorkshire. and attending St Bede's Grammar School. The school had its own darkroom and a Photographic Society run by the Chemistry Teacher, Mr McFee. At the time, I was particularly interested in making black and white prints of: - railways - other transport - school friends and school events |
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More School Photos Please click on the thumbnail image below to see some of the photos that I took at the school. I used to sell copies of them., about postcard size, to others in the class for 4d each. That just covered the cost of the materials used. |
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Update I returned to visit St Bede's Grammar School in June 2013 - almost fifty years after I left the school. Please click here to read about this return visit and see a few photos taken then. |
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Move to Edinburgh |
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I moved from Yorkshire to Edinburgh in 1963 and joined Edinburgh Photographic Society. I have used the Society's colour and black & white darkrooms over many years. Most of my photography for about the next 20 years was on colour slide film, photographing, family, holidays, landscape and railways. Since about 1990 I have taken more interest in documentary photography. I joined the EPS Creative Group* then joined the EPS Digital Imaging Group. These two groups merged in 2012 to become the EPS Creative Digital Group. * = formerly the EPS Colour Group |
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Documentary Projects |
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I am continuing a number of documentary projects in my spare time, including: - Edinburgh at Work - Scotland at Work - Edinburgh's Shops - Citroen 2CV Cars. - Scottish Railway Stations Some photos from these projects are included on this web site.
For almost all the photographs for these projects, I have used Fuji Velvia slide film. I have a large collection of these slides, and have made 50cm x 40cm colour prints from several of them. However, the photos for my Scottish Stations project are black and white. These were were taken on Agfa 25ASA or Ilford 50ASA film; some are on Kodak High Speed infra-red film. |
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Why take the Photos? |
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Up to 1990s My main reasons for taking photos at this time were: - for the family album, and - for Edinburgh Photographic Society competitions. I found the competitions to be a challenge. Some required photos to be taken on particular themes, causing me to take photos that I would not otherwise have taken. It was interesting to see how a theme could be interpreted in many different ways. Since 1990 I continued to enter EPS competitions and began to send my colour prints and slides away to International and other Open Competitions for a few years - a challenge again, though I didn't win many medals! However, my reason for taking many of the photos changed. Now, my main reasons for taking photos are: - to try to capture images that I think will be interesting to look back on in the future. - to take photos that might be of interest to people viewing the EdinPhoto web site. Web Sites, Papers and Magazines As well as adding my photos to the EdinPhoto web site - when I have found the time to do that - and occasionally sending photos for publication in the Edinburgh Evening News Picture Gallery feature, I've received emails from many people around the world asking if they can use my images for different purposes. I've often been surprised by where the requests have come from: - a group of Australian Electricity Pylon enthusiasts interested in my photo of a Pylon in the mountains in Queensland - a group of Ukrainian Bus Shelter enthusiasts, interested in some of my photos of Edinburgh bus shelters. - Several editors of specialist magazines that I never knew existed. |
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Other Uses Here are the ways that some of my photos have been used: - Exhibitions + Collections
City Art Centre ('Castle to Palace'), Museum
of Edinburgh (Newhaven Heritage Museum), Central Library (Edinburg
Room Collection), - Art Work As a CD cover, basis for an oil painting and a, tapestry - Books NB Distillery, Edinburgh Old Town (Malcolm Cant), others - Magazines Standard Life Magazine, Scots Magazine, others - Bus Timetables First Buses - Posters and Notice Boards London Poster, Portobello Promenade Notice Board - Christmas Cards Metropolitan Police, Amsterdam Bank, Charities - First Day Cover Scottish Parliament - Food & Drink Coffee Packaging, Shortbread Tin - Cab of a Truck James CC Ferguson Transport |
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Please keep scrolling down to see a few examples of how some of the photos have been used. |
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Magazines |
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Princes Street |
Leith Docks |
Tanfield Office |
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Bus Timetables |
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Melrose Abbey |
Bo'ness Bandstand |
Salisbury Crags in Holyrood |
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Christmas Cards |
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NB Distillery Yard |
View
from Grassmarket of |
Snowman near |
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Crib in West Princes Street Gardens |
Police near Bank of England |
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Highland Cattle |
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Christmas Card |
Christmas Card |
Advertisement |
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Shortbread Tin |
Haulage Contractor's truck |
Haulage Contractor's truck |
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Research and Publication |
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Research My research into the History of Photography in Edinburgh, and creation of this web site www.edinphoto.org.uk has been carried out in my spare time. The research began in the mid-1990s. Initially, I wrote a few articles for: - Edinburgh Photographic Society Bulletin - Scottish Photographic Federation Bulletin - other photographic Bulletin. Booklets I then compiled some of my research into booklets:
Publication Two of these booklets were published, both for limited audiences: - the second for Edinburgh Photographic Society - the last for Royal Photographic Society. I still have the other two, but they have not been published. Publication Soon after compiling these booklets, I realised that I would be able to reach a wider audience (and update the content more easily) if I created a web site to hold all the research. So I created www.edinphoto.org.uk and launched it in 2001. The site went 'live' in 2001. I selected the name, EdinPhoto, because 'Edin Photo' was the name that staff at Royal Bank of Scotland had written on papers for an Edinburgh Photographic Exhibition Account when they opened it for me as Treasurer of the EPS International Exhibition. I was amused to see that Royal Bank of Scotland continued to use this name, when the account was operating. For several years, they sent envelopes to my home, addressed to Edin Photo, containing correspondence beginning 'Dear Mr Photo ...". EdinPhoto Web Site The scope of the site, at first, was 'The History of Photography in Edinburgh', but within months the scope expanded. Now, in 2013, the site also covers other Edinburgh topics including: - Old photos and engravings - Recent photos and News - Recollections - Postcards - Transport - Maps. The Future Where next from here - from October 2013? There is plenty to keep me fully occupied: - I still have large collections of old photos and recent photos, and lots of information, waiting to be added to the web site. - I have a large backlog of emails to reply to, and they are still arriving daily, as fast as I am able to cope with them. - I'm still taking my photos, particularly documentary photos, showing some of the changes that are happening in Edinburgh. |
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Recent and Forthcoming Talks |
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Prints and 35mm Slides For many years, I gave talks to photographic societies and local history groups, usually illustrated by prints and projected 35mm slides. Digital Images From 2008 onwards, as more societies have acquired digital projectors, I've been basing my talks around the images on the EdinPhoto web site, usually compiling long pages of images from the web site, to scroll down during the talks. |
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Scope of the Talks If you click on the links for most of the talks below, you'll be able to see the scope of these talks. Many of the pages are very long, so they may be slow to load and you'll need to do a lot of scrolling if you wish to read the whole page. You may find some quite large areas of blank space as you scroll down the pages. I've added the 'space' to the pages so that individual images can be viewed in isolation, without distraction when images are viewed on the large screens used for most of these talks. Some of the comments on these pages may appear a little cryptic (without the additional commentary that I would normally give when delivering the talks) but I hope most of the text and pictures on these pages will make sense to you as you scroll down the pages. |
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2007 |
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North West Heritage Group |
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People at Work in Edinburgh |
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I also gave talks to other societies in 2007 and earlier years, from around 1970 onwards. Many of these talks were to Edinburgh Photographic Societies and to other photographic societies around Scotland. |
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2008 |
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15 Apr 2008 |
1.
Edinburgh at Work
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18 Jul |
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1 Oct |
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10 Nov |
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3 Dec |
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2009 |
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5 Jan |
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10 Feb |
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24 Feb |
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30 Mar |
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29 Sep |
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15 Oct |
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2010 |
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22 Feb |
Edinburgh University |
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22 Feb |
Edinburgh University |
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10 May |
Edinburgh
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2011 |
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27 Jan |
Edinburgh University
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31 Jan |
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21 Feb |
Edinburgh University |
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22 Feb |
Edinburgh University |
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6 Apr |
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9 Jun |
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26 Sep |
Edinburgh
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2012 |
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22 Feb |
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1 Mar |
Edinburgh University |
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8 Mar |
Edinburgh University |
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11 Sep |
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14 Sep |
Lothian Postcard Club |
Transport Postcards |
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21 Jan |
Edinburgh Themes |
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4 Feb |
History of Edinburgh Old Town and the Royal Mile, in Pictures |
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4 Mar |
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5 Mar |
Edinburgh University |
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7 Mar |
Edinburgh University |
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24 Apr |
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13 Nov |
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19 Nov |
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3 Mar |
Edinburgh University |
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20 Mar |
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27 Nov |
National Trust for Scotland |
Edinburgh's Industrial Past |
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3 Dec |
Edinburgh Photographic Society |
Edinburgh Themes 2 |
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4 Feb |
Colinton Literary Society |
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9 Feb |
Broughton History Society |
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8 May |
Lothian Postcard Club |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... Items on a Postcard |
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7 Oct |
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland |
Edinburgh at Work |
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18 Nov |
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland |
Edinburgh at Work
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Edinburgh Districts |
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23 Nov |
Water of Leith Conservation Trust |
Edinburgh at Work
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Edinburgh Districts |
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2 Dec |
Craigleith Probus Club |
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7 Mar |
Currie & District |
People at Work in Edinburgh |
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18 Mar |
Senior Men's Group |
People at Work in Edinburgh |
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2 Sep |
Friends of National Mining Museum of Scotland |
Same images as I showed to 'National Trust for Scotland in 2014. All 'Worker Themes. |
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1 Dec |
All Year Ramblers Club |
Pictures: AYR Club walks, 2016, + Time-lapse videos of Edinburgh Not shown. Meeting adjourned 'til early-2017 |
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2 Mar |
All Year Ramblers Club |
Videos: AYR Club walks, 2016 + Time-lapse videos of Edinburgh |
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12 Sep |
Midlothian Camera Club |
Same images as I showed to 'National Trust for Scotland in 2014. All 'Worker Themes. OR Scotland - iPad Photography A selection of photos + videos from my iPad |
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20 Nov |
Edinburgh Photographic Society - Creative Digital Group | Scotland - Photos and Videos taken with my iPad |
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5 Dec |
All Year Ramblers Club |
Pictures: AYR Club walks, 2017 + short videos |
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2018 |
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30 Jan |
Scottish Philatelic Society |
Numbers on Postcards A display of Postcards |
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20 Mar |
Leith Local History Society |
Work Around Edinburgh - 1990s and perhaps some recent photos and videos taken with my iPad |
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21 Mar |
Edinburgh Photographic Society |
Videos
Clouds over Edinburgh Tram to Haymarket Waverley Station - time lapse insects Murmurations |
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Dec |
All Year Ramblers Club |
Videos
Pentland Ramble, 2016 video Rest and Be Thankful Ramble, 2018 video Time Lapse video - Waverley Station Edinburgh Castle + Gardens video |
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7 Mar |
Rotary Club of Edinburgh |
Edinburgh at Work slides from 1990s +
AND Short videos |
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20 Feb |
Blackhall Probus Club |
Lost Industries of
Edinburgh: + perhaps a couple of short time-lapse videos |
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9 Apr |
Penicuik Probus Club |
Forgotten Industries of Edinburgh + perhaps a couple of short time-lapse videos |
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Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland
(another return visit) |
(Subject to be
decided) |
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Friends of Corstorphine Hill |
Same images as I showed to 'National Trust for Scotland in 2014. All 'Worker Themes. |
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Corstorphine Literary & Geographical Society |
Edinburgh at Work |
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South Side Community Centre |
The Royal Mile |
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Edinburgh Photographic Society
- Creative Digital Group |
Edinburgh
- A selections
of photos - A few short videos |
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Edinburgh Photographic Society
(possibly 2021 to 2022 |
Edinburgh
- A selections
of photos - A few short different videos |
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Other possible talks: - Portobello Probus Association (Edin. at Work): if a digital projector becomes available. - Craigleith Probus Association (Edin. at Work): if a digital projector becomes available. - Drummond Community High School - perhaps - Old Town Association - perhaps - Sheltered Housing Association - perhaps - Big Hearts Community - SW Edinburgh reminiscence group - perhaps - North Berwick Probus Club - perhaps |
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Other possible subjects for talks: - Changing Edinburgh: Street, Shops, Transport, etc.- similar to Edinburgh Themes', Jan 21, 2013 - Edinburgh Themes: Clouds, Escalators + Lifts + Steps, Graffiti, Shops, Toilets, Transport, etc. - Photography: Subjects, Cameras and Lenses, Photoshop, ... - Photography with an iPad: Edinburgh + Scotland - Time-Lapse Photography: Scotland |
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Photography Distinctions Peter Stubbs |
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AFIAP (Artiste de la Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) - 1997 Awarded for Prints and Slides exhibited in International Exhibitions. Please see the links at the bottom of this page. |
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ARPS (Associate of the Royal Photographic Society) - 1998 Awarded for Colour Prints in two categories: (1) Visual Art and (2) Documentary sections. |
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FRPS (Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society) - 2005
Awarded for research into the history
of photography in Edinburgh |
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My Photos - All Subjects |