This Friday at KPS ...

Kingswood Photographic Society is absolutely delighted to welcome Clive Rathband FRPS, FPSSA, EFIAP & Joan Ryder Rathband FRPS, FPSSA, as their speakers on Friday 5 April.  Joan & Clive will be showing their images and talking about ‘A few of our favourite thingsl’.  

Clive & Joan say: “The talk is very instructive, including lots of hints and tips and, if time permits, some simple Photoshop adjustments we use. The talk is a selection of favourite images, described as ‘some successful and others not’, but we describe why we like them and the background on how they were made. We also bring along some of the equipment and gadgets (often inexpensive or homemade), that we use in our photography.  

We both have a great deal of experience in Wildlife Photography, primarily in Africa and are able to give guidance and advice. Both of us have been producing Audio-Visual sequences for over 30 years and will include some digital A-Vs in the presentation.” 

Joan and Clive have been keen photographers for many years.  

Joan, born in South Africa, now married to Clive and living in Wiltshire, loves wildlife, nature, sport and landscape photography and is always in search of the ultimate 'mood' lighting. Favourite South African photographic spots include the National Parks of Southern Africa, Cape Town and the West Coast of SA. She also adores the beautiful English Landscape as well as the flora and fauna of both countries.  

Joan has lectured extensively and has judged many National and International Exhibitions of Photography. She has won numerous awards for photography and was the winner of the Gold Medal for the Best Nature Photograph in the Royal Photographic Society International Exhibition in 1990. She has also been awarded the Fellowship of the Photographic Society of Southern Africa (FPSSA) as well as the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS).  

Clive was born in England, but has had strong links to South Africa where he met Joan. 

Clive has a great love of the natural world and is inspired by the landscape of the UK, especially in his native Wiltshire, but is also equally at home in the dry desert landscapes of Southern Africa. He also enjoys photographing the flora and fauna in the National Parks of South Africa as well as other subjects such as sport.  

Clive is also a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (FRPS), and a Fellow of the Photographic Society of Southern Africa (FPSSA) and was awarded Excellence De La Federation Internationale de l’art Photographique (EFIAP). He has been a winner of many awards including the Royal Photographic Society Gold Medal for the Best Nature Photograph in the 2005 RPS International Exhibition. Joan and Clive are therefore both winners of this prestigious photographic competition.  

Clive has also lectured and judged many National and International Exhibitions of Photography and is currently a member of the Royal Photographic Society Nature Distinctions Panel.  

This promises to be an excellent evening.  For a taster of some of the treats that are in store, pop on to  Joan & Clive’s website,  www.jandcimages.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.


NEXT WEEK  As many of you will be aware Angela Williams is unable to be with us at KPS on Friday April 12th (The Norman Parkinson Archive 1950 - 1964).

Once again our Programme Secretary, Andy, has come up with what should be an interesting and informative alternative for us.  This will be a print talk consisting of the excellent work of the 25 or so Fotospeed Photographers with a commentary on a CD by Margaret Salisbury.