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Keswick Photographic Society can’t have ever had a more wide-ranging talk than this week’s from Jonny Gios who is a Jack of all trades and master of most.

He covered virtually the whole gamut of contemporary Cumbrian photography – primarily landscape, but showing people and places, wildlife, aviation, sport and photojournalism along with some drone photography and comments on videography.

He was able to give us an insight into the life of  a semi-professional freelancer, from getting and planning jobs to technical aspects of their execution, post-processing and selling, but (as a regular camera club judge) he then critiqued his own images, giving us his thoughts on how he would improve them given another chance.

He touched on some of the challenges and his plans for future projects including elite sports photography and the dream of photographing Manchester City as  proud Mancunian.

Simon Roberts

Last week’s meeting of Keswick Photographic Society consisted of a friendly assessment of members own photographs which fitted the set subjects of Sports Photography or Photo-journalism. Our judge was fellow member, Bob Givens, a highly experienced sports photographer. The evening started with a wide variety of sports being featured; from lacrosse to fell-running, foot volleyball to rugby, high jumping to speedway, Cumbrian wrestling to football. The standard of the images was high and singled out for particular praise were David Woodthorpe’s speedway shot, “To Stay Clean Stay Ahead”:

Annie Given’s high jumper “Doubled Over”:

and Alan Walker’s “A Born Survivor“

After the tea break Robert commented on a number of photographs that qualified as Photo-journalism, a genre that excludes “set-up” situations or significant manipulation of images after the event. Again, there was a wide variety of subjects, from porters in the Himalayas to a memorable sequence of images of derelict and forgotten corners in the more forbidding parts of inner city Glasgow.

Standout images in this section included Almar Marta’s “The Junk Surgeon:

Richard Petty’s “Home Sweet Home”:

and Richard Jakobson’s “Two Up, One Down”:

One of the attractions of these meetings is their non-competitive nature, there is no scoring, and everybody’s images get commented upon with pointers as how they might be improved. In all fifteen  members provided images for review and this level of participation together with Bob’s expertise and insightful comments made for an interesting and satisfying evening.

All the submitted images can be viewed on our gallery page

2025-2026 Competition Images

Tony Marsh