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This week Keswick Photographic Society’s members were entertained by one of their own members.  Ade Gidney who has a considerable reputation for, and much success with, landscape photography presented a series of wonderfully printed landscape images in the first half of the evening.

 

These prints were panels of 10 and then 21, which had won Ade his LRPS (Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society) and then his Landscape Fellowship (FRPS) respectively.

 

A Fellowship is the highest RPS distinction and requires a detailed statement of intent to accompany and explain the rationale for the series of images, which, in Ade’s case concentrated on the effect of changing light on mountain-scape compositions through the seasons.

 

In order to achieve these Ade regularly camped out on the fells to get the best light from sunset and sunrise vistas.

 

The second half of the evening was devoted to projected landscape images, all of which were taken within the British Isles and which focused of the impact of light on the land.  This was a very accomplished presentation of some quite inspirational photographs.

Our meeting on the 30^th November was a presentation via Zoom by Colleen Slater who is based in Brighton. Colleen is a macrophotography specialist and she took us through the development of her interest which first started when she began to photograph flowers deliberately placed under water. These flowers continue to photosynthesise and as a result produce bubbles of oxygen which when photographed close up with varied backgrounds produce some beautiful unique images.

 

She then moved on to macrophotography of flowers and was able to give us various tips and tricks used when out in the field. Whilst photographing flowers Colleen began to be aware of a fascinating variety of insects which sparked her interest in imaging them close up.

 

In contrast, as part of a project with a local photographic group Colleen began to take macro images along Brighton promenade and beach. This resulted in a completely different set of macro photographs of objects in this urban environment

 

as well as a fascinating series of the textures that can be seen when you take the time to look.

 

We were joined for this Zoom meeting by members of Kendal Photography and all found this a fascinating and inspiring evening.

Richard Jakobson