Last month’s theme of Animal, Vegetable or Mineral produced a surprising range of responses. Rather than photographing the natural world in a straightforward documentary way, most people chose to portray their subject in ways that resulted in often abstract or semi-abstract images, provoking us to question what we see. Close-ups of mushrooms using extremely shallow depth of field emphasised their strangeness. Plants captured behind opaque glass took on a vaguely sinister air. Patterns in the sand displayed an amazing variety of shapes. Waves caught crashing on the beach or trees blurred to a painterly abstraction showed how movement can be stilled or accentuated. Here are just a few examples from the evening….

Anna Lerner

Danilo Leonardi

Ku-Ring-Gai Chase by Mark Johnson

Using My Camera as a Paintbrush by Sue Czapska

Edith Templeton

Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday 18th May 2016 at 18.45 at the usual venue – The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queens Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT.
The theme will be Stranger/Tourist in Town. This offers a great opportunity to look at the city with a completely fresh perspective from your normal one! Please bring along any work you wish to share on a memory stick or in print form.
Advance notice for June: The Bigger Picture (interpret as you wish – either literally wide-angle/panorama/cityscape or a broader overall view of the world)