Camera Clubs, as the location of members’ darkrooms, found their use in rapid decline. As the technology improved and prices fell a good quality digital camera came within reach of folks of even modest means and given their incorporation into the parallel fast-evolution of the mobile telephone the capture of digital images has become an everyday occurrence. Perhaps an even bigger impact on the life of camera clubs was the appearance of compact digital cameras and the availability of processing facilities along the High Street of every city in the land.
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The last years of the 20th century saw the introduction of the first digital SLR and within the space of about five years professional photographers had switched almost entirely from film to digital SLR cameras. No greater change in the activities of photography clubs across the UK has taken place than that arising from the arrival of digital technology. No competition is more keenly contested, and Inverness was the winning Club in 1999, 20. Clubs from around the Highlands and Islands are eligible to submit ten images from no fewer than five authors. The Inter-Club competition for the Highland Challenge Shield became established in I 999. In this case the highest cumulative scores for prints and/or slides over the preceding winter identifies the ten members invited to submit six images, taken during the summer break, for the title of PoTY. Ernie Cooke‘s name was given to the Club’s Photographer of the Year trophy in 2003. June Travail is remembered in the June Travail Trophy awarded since 2003 for the winning Portfolio of Slide Images competed for annually by all experienced members. During the closing years of the 20th Century the Club mourned the loss of two of its stalwarts of many years. Past-President Mark Logan has again attended to its publication. This preface adds a little to the history of events in recent years and Ross Martin has researched the awards made during the last ten years and these have been added to the original tabulations of the 50th anniversary booklet. That original booklet forms the larger part of this publication. This is a copy of the text in our 2008: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Booklet Most of the history of the Club was originally recorded in the 50 th Anniversary Booklets published in 1998.
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