On 11th March Keswick Photographic Society held its audiovisual presentation evening. This is an annual event where members project a slideshow of a selection of their images accompanied by a musical soundtrack. There is no particular theme chosen so there is often a wide range of genres.
To start off this year our chairman, Tony Marsh, demonstrated the amazing diversity of colours and forms of the butterflies and moths found in Borneo. This was accompanied by a suitably exotic soundtrack of “Indo-Jazz”.
Alan Walker then showed us a selection of images taken over 20 years ago on a winter trip to Yellowstone National Park, USA.
This was followed in a similar vein by Julie Walker who convinced us of her love of the North American landscape with a series of images taken over two decades of visits to the continent. The accompanying soundtracks were very nostalgic to those of us of a certain age, with extracts from “Maverick”, “The Virginian”, “The Magnificent Seven”.
Nearer to home, Richard Jakobson had also collected photographs for over ten years. In this case, of the wildlife to be found in Clints Quarry, a disused limestone quarry in West Cumbria. Orchids and kestrels and dragonflies were a main feature here.
After our break we enjoyed a double offering from Mike Kidd. Firstly, he gave us his take on the dancing traditions of the Masai tribes in Africa with suitably “uplifting” music (they jump a lot!).
In complete contrast he then showed a collection of portraits of the “Goths” at Whitby. Here photographers have ample opportunity to take images of Goths in all their various costumes and make up.
A tranquil end to the evening was provided by Keith Snell with his landscapes taken on trips to the Hebrides. These included “standard” landscapes of the islands but also demonstrated again, his skill at creating more artistic interpretations.
Richard Jakobson