Pat
says: “My talk and presentation of
pictures to your club will consist of a variety of images which convey my main
interests in both Landscape/Wildlife & Sport.
I have been a very prolific photographer since the mid-sixties
when I married and started a family. My
early years in photography consisted of taking pictures of people and
photographing weddings every week, something which I always enjoyed, but after
ten years, decided it really wasn’t the direction for my photography.
Wildlife and landscape has always interested me,
this being the main subject of my presentation. Achieving decent
movement pictures of both animal and mechanical subjects has always challenged
me, so the gradual move to better specified cameras and lenses has certainly
made everything a whole lot easier, not to mention the cost of a 36 exposure
colour transparency film and a 10 frames a second capability film camera.
I endorsed the digital age with enthusiasm at a very
early stage in the mid-nineties and soon found out that it was far preferable
to the many hours spent in my darkroom producing what was not always an optimum
quality colour print. I would add that
the only disappointment I now feel is that of dismantling my darkroom and not
being able to create mono prints. For
some reason I feel I would like to return to this method of producing a masterpiece!
Maybe I might just take the old route
again sometime soon.
I have been selling my work for the last twenty
years or so and still have an excellent outlet for doing so. There still is a
great sense of satisfaction when someone parts with money and purchases one of
my pictures. Maybe that’s the difference
between an amateur versus professional photographer.”
This
promises to be an absolutely superb evening so we hope to see you there.
Kingswood PS
meet Fridays from 7.30pm to around 9.30pm at St Barnabas Church Hall, Warmley,
Bristol BS30 5JJ. Visitors are most
welcome and the cost for this evening is £3.00.
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