Gareth Martin AWPF, CPAGB 'All in the Making'

This week we were treated to an evening with a difference. ‘All in the making’ was certainly that.

Gareth not only demystified how he put his images together, but shared his thought processes, techniques and stories which made you think of how to use all those images you have long forgotten that sat on your computer.

Gareth inspired us with a selection of different genres from Welsh landscapes in all weathers, to indoor shots of unlikely subjects, to detail study solely of hands.

His black and white images portray his love of monochrome which lead to Gareth’s involvement with Cymru Monochrome, of which he is the Chair.

A most enjoyable evening – thank you Gareth.

Nick Walton talk: All The World's A Stage

Wigan 10 camera club member and local photographer Nick Walton treated club members to an evening full of variety as he showed some of his work and explained his inspiration and very personal; approach to his own brand of photographic art.

Drawing on classic artists from Dali to Carravagio, Nick gave an insight into his complex thought processes as well as taking us through technical aspects of image capture and production. Pictured here are examples of the three main genres he showed us in his absorbing talk.

His mono landscapes were illustrated by dark Icelandic images and included some long exposure work shown here.

The Red String of Fate is a uniquely creative composite with multi-layered ideas as well as images.

Finally Nick’s project to create still life images using a variety of lighting sources, and layers culminated in the amazing Seven Ages of Man. I can’t wait to see the printed version in all its glory.

Thanks Nick for sharing with us you very original body of work.

Annual Exhibition Judging - Final Round

Last Wednesday saw the final round of judging for the Annual Exhibition. Images were judged by Peter Wells ARPS, EFIAP, CPAGB, BPE3* and covered the three remaining print categories of Architecture & Record, Nature and Scapes. All had submitted their images before the lockdown but this had delayed judging.

The standard of images was very high indeed and Peter certainly had his work cut out with a high number of images in both the Architecutre & Record and Nature categories as well as Scapes.

Peter provided entrants with some fair and valuable feedback on the entries and scores were of good range. It was interesting in particular to hear Peter highighting the differences between the DPI images shown on the night over Zoom and the prints he had been supplied with. He made a number of comments on this and called out a few times that the prints he had been presented with in some cases looked darker or with a colour cast when compared to those he could see on screen via Zoom. Certainly food for thought when processing printed images in future.

The club would like to thank Peter for his comments and the work put in to judging the large selection of images. In excess of 30 members joined the meeting and I'm sure all will have learnt a lot from Peter's expertise. Congratulations to all those members who had images held back on the night.