29th March 2022
This week we had home grown presenters and home grown images. All about the UK - well three countries anyway (nothing of Northern Ireland).
Liz Bugg started us off showing images from her Blackpool trip last October. She visited the area primarily to see the famous Blackpool lights: which are now 6 miles long (they were one mile when I was little)! She showed an assortment of images from this now deprived area of the UK and her black and white images seemed to enhance that for me. Some imposing photographs of beaches, piers and columns typically found in English seaside resorts. Liz also took a variety of 'abstracty' images - razor clam shells and a dog fish got in there as well. Some interesting shots of Honeycombe Worm Reefs and the ubiquitous tableaus of the Blackpool Lights including ones of Sooty and Sweep, and Noddy and Big Ears which were there during my childhood! Liz is known for her people shots and she included some of these in her presentation including some fascinating ones of Detectorists.
Liz’s presentation finished with her showing us some images from Teignmouth and Weymouth giving us a more Southern flavour of the English seaside.
Doug King stayed with the English seaside and showed us some images from Torbay situated in what is referred to as the English Riviera. This term possibly conjured up by Great Western Railway in the last century to encourage travel. The model village at Babbacombe was fascinating and even has a replica of the Royal Crescent. This part of the world attracts seals and Doug showed images of the local seal colony.
Being hilly in this part of our world - with many cliffs to deal with, funiculars became a method of getting down to the beach and the funicular at Babbacombe is a water powered feature! As per Doug gave us an easily understood explanation of how it works. In Bournemouth he took some images in the aquarium - of which one of a turtle looked as if he had taken it underwater!
Shay Parsons showed images of a trip she had taken to the Isle of Skye including the Old Man of Storr. Shay walked up 719 metres to get some of her images and she showed us many striking landscapes, as well as her signature rocks and rust. A lot of us love clouds and mist and Shay’s images taken in the Elgol mountains showed an abundance of low cloud. Wonderful.
The Quiraing landslip allowed Shay to take some stunning landscape and Portree as the main village and “capital” of Skye is hardly an urban feel!
Jane Rees took us into all three countries starting with Glen Affric and Black Isle high up in the Scottish Highlands. In the UK Scotland is the closest thing to wilderness - in fact parts of it are wilderness and Jane's images strongly portrayed that feeling. Autumnal colours suit the Scottish Highlands and there were images of this as well as Fairy Glen Falls. Jane loves a fungus - we all know this, and she showed us an impressive collection of Dead Man's Fingers - which disconcertingly looked exactly that! Pine Martins are well known in Scotland and we were shown images of these little creatures as well as red squirrels, sea otters and dolphins.
From Scotland to the Scottish Borders and its steep folds and the ruins of Melrose Abbey. One image of a viaduct fascinated me with its slanted look - giving it an unusual perspective I thought. Another striking image showed an old bridge with its new version.
In Wales Jane showed us Anglesey - an island I thought I “knew” until Jane showed us images of Parys Mountain and the old copper mine - wish I had known about those! Curlews, terns , marsh gentians and yes another fungus - this time velvet bolliti. Her final image of this area was the Menai Straits in snow - a very unusual sight for this part of the world .
Staying in Wales and going South to Pembrokeshire’s gannets and dolphins and seals on Ramsey Island with its wonderful rock pools including some coral revealing a springtail which Jane had not noticed until she processed the photo.
So refreshing to see our UK represented so well - thank you to all who contributed.
Also a big thank you once again to Graham and the techy team - we had Helen taking care of the “Zoomers” from her Zoom position and Graham did the double screen at the physical meeting allowing us to see the speaker and their images, side by side with great clarity. Thank you for your hard work and efforts for us.
This week we had home grown presenters and home grown images. All about the UK - well three countries anyway (nothing of Northern Ireland).
Liz Bugg started us off showing images from her Blackpool trip last October. She visited the area primarily to see the famous Blackpool lights: which are now 6 miles long (they were one mile when I was little)! She showed an assortment of images from this now deprived area of the UK and her black and white images seemed to enhance that for me. Some imposing photographs of beaches, piers and columns typically found in English seaside resorts. Liz also took a variety of 'abstracty' images - razor clam shells and a dog fish got in there as well. Some interesting shots of Honeycombe Worm Reefs and the ubiquitous tableaus of the Blackpool Lights including ones of Sooty and Sweep, and Noddy and Big Ears which were there during my childhood! Liz is known for her people shots and she included some of these in her presentation including some fascinating ones of Detectorists.
Liz’s presentation finished with her showing us some images from Teignmouth and Weymouth giving us a more Southern flavour of the English seaside.
Doug King stayed with the English seaside and showed us some images from Torbay situated in what is referred to as the English Riviera. This term possibly conjured up by Great Western Railway in the last century to encourage travel. The model village at Babbacombe was fascinating and even has a replica of the Royal Crescent. This part of the world attracts seals and Doug showed images of the local seal colony.
Being hilly in this part of our world - with many cliffs to deal with, funiculars became a method of getting down to the beach and the funicular at Babbacombe is a water powered feature! As per Doug gave us an easily understood explanation of how it works. In Bournemouth he took some images in the aquarium - of which one of a turtle looked as if he had taken it underwater!
Shay Parsons showed images of a trip she had taken to the Isle of Skye including the Old Man of Storr. Shay walked up 719 metres to get some of her images and she showed us many striking landscapes, as well as her signature rocks and rust. A lot of us love clouds and mist and Shay’s images taken in the Elgol mountains showed an abundance of low cloud. Wonderful.
The Quiraing landslip allowed Shay to take some stunning landscape and Portree as the main village and “capital” of Skye is hardly an urban feel!
Jane Rees took us into all three countries starting with Glen Affric and Black Isle high up in the Scottish Highlands. In the UK Scotland is the closest thing to wilderness - in fact parts of it are wilderness and Jane's images strongly portrayed that feeling. Autumnal colours suit the Scottish Highlands and there were images of this as well as Fairy Glen Falls. Jane loves a fungus - we all know this, and she showed us an impressive collection of Dead Man's Fingers - which disconcertingly looked exactly that! Pine Martins are well known in Scotland and we were shown images of these little creatures as well as red squirrels, sea otters and dolphins.
From Scotland to the Scottish Borders and its steep folds and the ruins of Melrose Abbey. One image of a viaduct fascinated me with its slanted look - giving it an unusual perspective I thought. Another striking image showed an old bridge with its new version.
In Wales Jane showed us Anglesey - an island I thought I “knew” until Jane showed us images of Parys Mountain and the old copper mine - wish I had known about those! Curlews, terns , marsh gentians and yes another fungus - this time velvet bolliti. Her final image of this area was the Menai Straits in snow - a very unusual sight for this part of the world .
Staying in Wales and going South to Pembrokeshire’s gannets and dolphins and seals on Ramsey Island with its wonderful rock pools including some coral revealing a springtail which Jane had not noticed until she processed the photo.
So refreshing to see our UK represented so well - thank you to all who contributed.
Also a big thank you once again to Graham and the techy team - we had Helen taking care of the “Zoomers” from her Zoom position and Graham did the double screen at the physical meeting allowing us to see the speaker and their images, side by side with great clarity. Thank you for your hard work and efforts for us.