Back for 2nd year at Crieff Hydro for the Confederation of Passenger Transport Scotland annual conference.

Two day event with some fascinating speakers including Dr Antonia Terzi designer of the Superbus – not a bus, not a streeeeetch limo, not a formula one car but perhaps something taken from them all. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7wEaG2u-BY) Designed to run on ordinary roads to pick passengers up(16 each with own entry doors), then onto current fast roads then onto specifically designed roads so the vehicles can travel at speeds up to 250kph at just 250mm off the ground.

Shoot for another Edinburgh Convention Bureau Ambassadors evening event on 31 August this time at the Roslin Institute just outside Edinburgh.

Delighted to have covered the World Congress of Epidemiology at Edinburgh International Conference Centre this year – conference and social events.

Thanks to all at In Conference Edinburgh – the professional conference organiser for IEA

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Was pleased to get the assignment to cover this years conference in Edinburgh.

DDL – Drug Delivery to the Lungs has been a long standing event at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre and is organised by a voluntary committe from various companies and The Aerosol Society.

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DDL   The Aerosol Society

I covered this, the 3rd of the EuropaBio conference at the 5 star Sheraton Grand & Spa in Edinburgh with a drinks reception at Edinburgh Castle.

350 delegates pretty well filled the main room. Lighting on the stage was a challenge to say the least (none) but was able to direct the flash directly to a near white ceiling which resulted in light coming from above the speakers and with the bounce card out it worked out OK.

See here for some short interviews filmed on the first day and here for some interesting stuff on the way tyres may be made in the future.

I’m well pleased that ECB (Edinburgh Convention Bureau) chose one of my pictures for the front cover of their new Blueprint – the essential guide to hotel and conference venues as well as conference support services in Edinburgh. The guide is distributed to conference buyers and organisers around the world.

This and other Edinburgh images are available on my gallery.

Blueprint conference guide for Edinburgh

2nd year covering this event for Cancer Research Scotland and cross party MSPs, clinicians, medical specialists and patient representives to help direct the Scottish Government in all fields of cancer treatment and aftercare. This years conference was at the Stirling Management Centre

Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, again gave the opening talk and took questions.

Nicola Sturgeon, MSP, gives opening speech.

I think for future conferences I am going to ask the sound guys to be more unobstrusive with their mics! Lighting not great either but bounced the flash of a near white ceiling so all OK.

With assistance from the Edinburgh Convention Bureau, the Potato Council (GB) and World Potato Congress Inc have signed the deal to host the 2012 international conference for the ‘spud’.

Booked to cover PR photography for the ‘signing’ at the Royal Highland Show, I wanted to add the Edinburgh Brand to the background and collected the pop-ups to add an identity for Edinburgh as host city.

Potato Congress confirmed for Edinburgh 2012

Allan Parker World Potato Congress President, Allan Stevenson Potato Council Chairman and Douglas Harley, World Potato Congress Board member give the thumbs up!

Two blocks of seats of bloggers and tweeters in the auditorium were putting out live titbits from the UKSG’s annual conference in Edinburgh last week (12-14 April)

Indeed Twitter was used by some in the audiennce and even those not actually there to pose questions to speakers and panels.

As someone who was ‘avoiding ‘ Twitter, I now have to rethink this. Within minutes my online eCommerce gallery for the 3 day conference going live, the URI was Tweeted by a delegate (thanks Tom Roper), then on Friendfeed and then on Tweetmeme (??). I only found this out as I subscribe to Google Alerts with various photography terms.

I have just contracted with UKSG which originally stood for the United Kingdom Serials Group.

UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of scholarly and professional information.

The conference in April 2010 is for 700 delegates and is being held over 3 days at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.