19th March 2022
It was an absolute delight on Tuesday to hear from Peter Haworth, whose images we are all familiar with in our competitions. This week he gave us a retrospective of his work and showed 73 images - and with each one he explained what he had done to achieve the overall feel of the image (and in the process surprising Liz Bugg with his secrets!). During his photographic endeavours he gets lots of wet wellies and gets himself wet a lot as well because he does not “wait” for the good weather. This resonates with many of our members! You know who you are. Peter’s photography totally belies a generally held idea that landscapers should “wait" for good light and good weather - many of Peter's images however are taken during dull days and in wet, soggy terrain! A bit of Photoshop lifts them entirely!
Peter mainly travels with a Nikon D810 and only 2 lenses. He uses Fotospeed paper (Smooth cotton is his favourite, also favoured by Charlie Waite and others). He does all of his own printing with an Epson fillable tank printer - this process alone takes patience although Peter makes it sound very easy.
Amongst the images he showed us he told stories of catching the Duchess of Cambridge abseiling in a slate quarry and a fabulous image he missed of hounds in Little Langdale because his camera was in the car! It happens to us all!
A beautiful image of a Retired Lightship was selected for a Mariners calendar and again the story behind this image was filled with rich explanation about the planning.
Peter is a good story teller - not just his image story telling but also his narrative - for example he told a cracking story about when he was in Dubai wanting to get a particular shot and the police guard told him he could not go to a certain area. So he didn't. But then the police guard changed and the new one came and allowed him into the restricted area. So he did. But then the old one came back and caught Peter snapping away (although snaps are the last adjective I would use for Peter's work!) and that was the end of that. Fortunately though not the end of Peter!
We ended the evening with an image of Deck Houses for which Peter was recently awarded the PAGB Richard Spiers Silver Medal and it seemed a fitting moment to present it to him this evening. I think he was surprised - he thought Csilla still had it!
(Ed. Peter's Flickr site can be found here)
It was an absolute delight on Tuesday to hear from Peter Haworth, whose images we are all familiar with in our competitions. This week he gave us a retrospective of his work and showed 73 images - and with each one he explained what he had done to achieve the overall feel of the image (and in the process surprising Liz Bugg with his secrets!). During his photographic endeavours he gets lots of wet wellies and gets himself wet a lot as well because he does not “wait” for the good weather. This resonates with many of our members! You know who you are. Peter’s photography totally belies a generally held idea that landscapers should “wait" for good light and good weather - many of Peter's images however are taken during dull days and in wet, soggy terrain! A bit of Photoshop lifts them entirely!
Peter mainly travels with a Nikon D810 and only 2 lenses. He uses Fotospeed paper (Smooth cotton is his favourite, also favoured by Charlie Waite and others). He does all of his own printing with an Epson fillable tank printer - this process alone takes patience although Peter makes it sound very easy.
Amongst the images he showed us he told stories of catching the Duchess of Cambridge abseiling in a slate quarry and a fabulous image he missed of hounds in Little Langdale because his camera was in the car! It happens to us all!
A beautiful image of a Retired Lightship was selected for a Mariners calendar and again the story behind this image was filled with rich explanation about the planning.
Peter is a good story teller - not just his image story telling but also his narrative - for example he told a cracking story about when he was in Dubai wanting to get a particular shot and the police guard told him he could not go to a certain area. So he didn't. But then the police guard changed and the new one came and allowed him into the restricted area. So he did. But then the old one came back and caught Peter snapping away (although snaps are the last adjective I would use for Peter's work!) and that was the end of that. Fortunately though not the end of Peter!
We ended the evening with an image of Deck Houses for which Peter was recently awarded the PAGB Richard Spiers Silver Medal and it seemed a fitting moment to present it to him this evening. I think he was surprised - he thought Csilla still had it!
(Ed. Peter's Flickr site can be found here)