Talk - Sally Sallett: Never Underestimate An Old Woman With A Camera 11/08/21

This evening we had another packed 'house' with around 38 people - including 2 new guests - joining another talk by Zoom from Wakefield Camera Club's Sally Sallett ARPS CPAGB AFIAP BPE3*.

Her talk, Never Underestimate An Old Woman With A Camera was a wide-ranging journey through her photographic life, starting right back with her first Kodak Brownie 127 through to her latest Olympus kit in use today.

Sally is a self-described 'rag bag' photographer who is quite willing to turn her hand to almost any subject or genre. Tonight we saw examples covering most categories familiar to club photographers and got some insight into her creative process.

It was an entertaining and accessible talk and Sally presents her material with no artifice or pretence that people of all levels of club can enjoy and hopefully be inspired by. A few stills below show some of the work that was on display.

Challenge - Masks 04/08/21

Four images were selected by members of the club as being the best of the sixteen images submitted depicting masks in various guises.

Carla and Kevin Lloyd provided very useful and comprehensive feedback on the images, providing the all the authors with constructive hints and tips on how their images could be improved.

The top four images were: • 1st - Untitled by James Gibson • 2nd Masked Welder by Graham Sykes • 3rd equal Thorn by Carol Haigh and Masquerading As Fashion by Mike Hey

Their images are shown below:

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all the authors who submitted images and to those who scored them.

Outing - Photo walk part 1 28/07/21

This evening was a challenge for members in more ways than one!

We met in the town centre on a showery evening with 18 members braving the weather,

which had clear skies one minute and very heavy rain showers the next.

Members were given an envelope containing instructions and a colour card. The

challenge was to take an image which contained all or part of the given colour, to stay

within the inner ring round and all images to be taken on the night.

After members had identified and taken their two images or more, a quick retreat to one

of the local pubs found members enjoying a pint or two and company which we have

missed for so long.

It will be interesting to see all the images taken on the second part of this event in a few

weeks’ time.