november meeting news
This evening we a departed from our usual format, in that we were entertained by Van Greaves FRPS, our guest speaker for the night.
Known by John Horton since the late 1960’s, Van is a professional photographer specialising in landscape photography – though of late he has diversified into photography of butterflies and birds. Since gaining his RPS fellowship in the 1990’s he has had number of books published that include “Moods of Shropshire & The Marches” and “Worcestershire & Elgar Country”.
The evening contained a number of ‘Audio Visual’ sequences including the ‘Venetian Carnival’, ‘Balloons over Cappadocia’ and various aspects of the British landscape. It should be noted that the main technique was the care taken with the composition of the image: layers, leading lines and so forth. A short Q & A session followed each AV presentation.
Should you want to see more of Van’s work go to his website here - vangreaves.com
The ‘Monthly Competition’ entitled ‘Minimalist’ was held.
The winners were:-
- 1st - 'No Key - No Exit' by John Horton
- 2nd - 'Space Oddity' by Joan Banks
- 3rd - 'Standing Sentinel' by Jan Lancaster
These images have been cropped to suit layout, Members receive full size versions with their monthly newsletter
NEXT MEETING
We will be discussing the Cloning tool within Photoshop.
You can view our current programme here - PROGRAMME 2015-2016