Last month we had a packed evening of images from five speakers presenting a variety of images of different genera including some for critique. To start with Ann had gathered some of her best macro images of insects taken over two seasons in her garden. These were indeed ultra close up images showing their life cycle in different stages. It is remarkable how she managed to capture tiny barely visible greenfly and blackfly giving birth to even microscopic babies, all in sharp focus. Part of her success is the intimate knowledge of her subjects and their behaviour.

 

Greenbottles Paired by Ann Mead

 

Sue Swift has been taking advantage of the events happening on her doorstep watching construction of those massive tower cranes we see dotted around Bristol. Inspired by the recent visit of Bill Ward to BPS Sian Jones had a go at creative photography using intentional camera movement and shared some of her images with us. John Hudson continues to create images of professional dancers in prestigious London theatres where he is lucky enough to have access and has skills to photograph in near impossible lighting conditions. A secret he shared with us last month was that although as a photographer he should be emotionally detached from the performance on the stage, how he was moved to tears by one dance company’s performance. John is also rapidly becoming more adventurous with his drone photography, capturing images from different angles.

 

By John Hudson (not a drone shot!)

 

Paul MacLeod brought images of miniature figures with some creative input for comments and he did get some very useful tips.

 

The next DI Group meeting is on Monday 17 April, in less than a week. The meeting is open to all BPS members. This is a gentle reminder to all members that it is an ideal opportunity to share your images with fellow members to show what you have been working on, achieving success or near success in whatever way you enjoy making images. If you are preparing for club competitions or other salons, you may want to get a second opinion at the DI meeting from your fellow members or you might just enjoy showing off your work and experiments in an informal atmosphere.

 

When you are ready, please email your images for presentation to reach me by 6pm(ish)  Sunday 16 April. Images: JPG format, sRGB colour space, 1600 x 1200 pixels (same as competitions but not strict). If you wish to show them in a specific order, please prefix filenames with 01, 02, 03 etc. Email attachment size - max 20Mb per email, as many as necessary. You may also use WeTransfer or Dropbox if convenient, but I am not equipped to receive by direct transfers from Google or Apple Mac systems. 

 

Ashwin Chauhan 
dig@bristolphoto.org.uk 

 

Apologies to those who tried to use the above email address and failed last week due to some mysterious reason. It has been rectified and should work fine now.