THURSDAY 18th March 2021
A visit from Thornbury Camera Club
It was with great pleasure that we welcomed eight members of Thornbury Camera Club to our regular Zoom meeting.
Andy Gillingham, secretary of their club, introduced the evening by telling us about their club and the members who would be showing us their work.
Dean Packer then took over and talked us through the images he had taken whilst travelling abroad for work. The majority of the images taken in places such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai were night time shots showing the skylines and the hustle and bustle of the city streets.
Andy Gillingham’s contribution was a mixture of images from various genres of photography. Landscapes taken in the Lake District were followed by both monochrome and coloured images taken on model shoots. His travel shots included photographs taken whilst on holiday in Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and here in the UK.
Janet Oxenham began by showing images she had taken during the 2020 lockdown. Like us all, she was limited to what she could photograph but her post processing added that extra ‘zing’ to the images of flowers she had captured. Her pre-covid photographs included the streets of Delhi, various Cathedrals and Cowes Week.
Steve Wells started his presentation with travel images, taking us to many places including the Lake District, Norway and Venice. During his lockdown, he set up a ‘home studio’ and took images of flowers, he experimented with backgrounds, photo-stacking, multiple exposures and combining images and he was very pleased with results.
Rob England wasn’t able to join the meeting but was happy for his images to be shown. His style of photography is ‘intentional’ and ‘inventive’, producing pictures in a very specific way. This was quite obvious in not only his studio portraiture but also his unique images of ordinary things around us.
Barbara Gibbons, who is also a member of Tyndale Photography Club, was next ‘on stage’. She has been taking photographs since a child and just loves to take images of anything and everything in front of her. She showed us beautifully captured local, holiday and nature images taken over the last eighteen months.
George Collett began his photography journey with wildlife images but soon discovered another passion ‘action photography’. The images he showed of the ‘Tour of Britain Cycle Race’ and both men and women at ‘The Tough Guy and Gal Challenge’ were a complete contrast to the fine images of gannets, woodpeckers and kingfishers.
Brian McBride, who enjoys combining craft and art in his photography, showed mostly monochrome images of varying subjects. He said he likes to create sets or collections of images which support each other and are on the same theme and his ‘sense of place’ and ‘Ephemeral’ folios definitely fitted this bill.
Brian Wetton gave the vote of thanks and said that some of the images and techniques shown tonight had probably inspired us all to ‘go and try something different’.