This Friday at KPS ...

Kingswood Photographic Society is absolutely delighted to welcome Jon Baker MFIAP, EFIAP/p and Sue Baker EFIAP, BPE 3*, as their speakers on Friday 29^th April.  Sue & Jon will be showing their prints and talking about ‘There and Back Again.

Jon says: “I have been taking photographs since the mid 1970's. I joined the now defunct Telford Photographic Society and not long after the Royal Photographic Society. In 1984 I became a "double" Associate of the Royal with two different sets of colour slides. Not long after in 1988, I gained a Fellowship of the Royal with a series of mono infra red images.

In 1989 I joined Wrekin Arts Photo Club and soon started entering exhibitions at National and International level. In 1994 I started producing slides from digital images. I worked my way through the FIAP (Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique) exhibition table, culminating in 2009 with the EFIAP/Platinum award. However, the proudest moment in my photographic career was in 2003 when I became only the 9th person in Great Britain to be awarded the prestigious Master FIAP award. This was with a series of images taken in Cwmorthin and Rhosydd.”

Sue says: “I have been an outdoor person all my life and I love mountains and wild places.  As my husband Jon has always been interested in photography and with my love of landscapes and weather meant that we could share our interests.

When Jon had a new camera in the early 1990’s, I acquired his old one.  He persuaded me to join the Photographic Club with him and we have been attending ever since.

I have seen and photographed lots of places from the Gobi Desert to the Wrekin, and never tire of seeing new places and trying to capture the atmosphere and interest in the camera.

We have been known to spend nights on mountain tops just to get that ‘Dawn Light’.

Hopefully, I can still get to some of the more inaccessible places for a while longer and capture the sights that I still love and to enjoy just being there.”

This promises to be an absolutely excellent evening.  For a taster of some of the treats that are in store, pop on to Jon’s website, www.thewrekingallery.com and also have a look at Sue’s website, www.twofeetfrom.com.

Kingswood PS meet Fridays at 7.30pm at St Barnabas Church Hall, Warmley, Bristol  BS30 5JJ.  Visitors are most welcome and the cost for this evening is £3.00.