The Otley and District Photographic Society held its 58th Annual Photo-graphic Exhibition at Otley Civic Centre from Saturday to yesterday.

Central to the exhibition were some 300 prints and transparencies which were the members' entries in the twelve categories of their own annual competition.

The Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of the exhibition were accompanied, and illuminated, by a series of lectures from visiting experts.

Much of the informal discussion on the Saturday concerned the question of whether recent advances in digital photography were sounding the death knell for rolls of film, developing tanks and the darkroom.

Although the common view was "not yet", the pictures here were taken with a digital camera kindly supplied by exhibition supporter CCD Images of Otley - and by a visitor who had never used one before.

The 30-strong club meets weekly.

All smiles: Otley's Mayor Gerard Francis, who awarded the prizes, is seen with the winners of the three main categories, Denis Murgatroyd, Peter Sanderson and Ron Dickenson together with competition judge, Gordon Quinn