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On-line Zoom meeting held 11 November 2020

Many found this month’s topic ‘Depth, Breadth, Height’ uninspiring and so contributions included many based on ‘Own Projects’.

Own Projects
Edey’s use of vertical camera movement produced brilliant flashes of autumn colour, and the suggestion of falling leaves. Growing up in Canada, Heather’s favourite season is autumn, and she has used lockdown as the opportunity to observe the variety of leaf colour and its progressive change. Frankie has created diptychs, triptychs and grids to display clouds, leaves and flowers – some almost mirror reflections but with intriguing subtle variations. By contrast Anna’s images of trees “seen through a glass darkly” or reflected in different surfaces are austere, mysterious and almost monochrome. Jim showed smeared painted black & white images based on early colour photographs, creating ambiguity. Struggling to take photographs during lockdown, Ingrid has looked back at “what was”, revisiting and reworking old family photographs while challenging the notion that we were all “safe from harm” back then. Cut-glass decanters, oil lamps and other family objects have inspired Janet to create tightly cropped, artificial still life arrangements in Photoshop. Sukhy says he has always been a people watcher, initially attracted to extroverts but increasingly finding that introverts are more complex and rewarding subjects. Simon admits that his ongoing, three-per-day Instagram images are somewhat self-indulgent, but others said that his images – an improvised mixture of colour, softness & blur, and focal highlights – were a “visual Charlie Mingus”!

Depth, Breadth, Height
Geoff found the topic “blunt and heavy”, so captured this by framing his pictures with weighty, strong riveted steel structures above – maybe weight is the fourth dimension? Jan’s two images directly addressed the topic, one of which was a surreal image of the Andromeda galaxy (with astronomical depth, breadth and height) hovering over a cup cake case. Austin provided a literal interpretation with an array of album covers all featuring the ‘right’ words (eg Long Tall Sally, River Deep & Mountain High etc). Steve admitted to wanting to be elbow deep in chemicals as he processed scanned panoramic images from his analogue camera, complete with sprocket holes and colour distortion. Tony also went for panoramic images, sometimes vertically as in a stair well and Napoleon’s tomb. Nusse’s lovely tonal image of a stairwell in Malta gave a sense of harmony and proportion. The glaciers of Patagonia in Eve’s photographs included a boat to give a sense of scale and highlight their staggering height and breadth. Alec wanted to capture anything that can be measured, including a Conran-designed 10 minute timer – maybe time, not weight is the fourth dimension after all.


Edith Templeton


Frankie McAllister


Steve Jones


Ingrid Newton


Janet Nabney


Geoff Titley


Alec Wylie


Tony Nicholson


Jim Paterson