Contents
Bob Train - ‘Berlin 9th November 1989’ Jenny Rees Mann - ‘More from my Portals Collection’ Alex Isaacs - ‘Where Are We Going?’ Eric Williams - ‘A Canal-Side Walk’ John Hoath - ‘This and That’ Stewart Bourne - ‘Portals’ Tessa Mills - ‘A Fistful of Treacle’ Bob Oakley - ‘Chips with Everything’ Clive Haynes - ‘A Winter Tapestry’’ Geoff Hicks - ‘Hardwick Hall’ Dr. Charles Ashton - ‘Going Underground’ Paul Mann - ‘Related by Title’ Richard Sarginson - ‘Jwildfire Exploration’ Peter Young - ‘The Human Condition’
Bob Train
Berlin 9th November 1989
If there is a strong enough story the technical quality of the imagery is not important. Here is test of that theory. Unwittingly, I was a witness to a defining point in history during a 2-week business trip to Berlin. During week 1 I was taken on an official DDR guided tour of East Berlin – through the Iron Curtain. Then in week 2 the Wall fell and to quote Max Boyce “I was there” and I crossed through the Wall freely. From Ektachrome slides on a Canon AE Programme.
Bob Train 01Brandenburg Gate from FRD
Bob Train 02 Brandenburg gate from DDR
Bob Train 03 Wall guards
Bob Train 04 The reality of the Wall
Bob Train 05 Across the Spree to the East
Bob Train 06 Memorials to killed escapees
Bob Train 07 No Man’s land
Bob Train 08 Looking over
Bob Train 09 Breaking through jpg
Bob Train 10 Crossing
Bob Train 11 Trabant or Tranbant
Jenny Rees Mann
More from my ‘Portals’ Collection
I am fascinated by those portals people pass though to get to their own private places. Does it influence how you feel to go home through a doorway painted with details, or political statements, personal to you? Or to venture out into the World past a mermaid? But collectors of doorways must forget about photographic ideals involving straightness, evenness or even the concept of right-angles. The best doorways ignore such mundane trivia, being uneven, lop-sided and skewed as well as ingeniously incorporating a letter box into the design. I try to record a little of the road outside, the step and the walls on either side, to give context to these works of art which, like other paintings, often carry the artist’s name.
jrm-01.welivehere
jrm-02.sunflower
jrm-03.ghouls galore
jrm-04.mymermaid
jrm-05.jpg myhair
jrm-06jpg tigerman
jrm-07.jpg is that a pear_
jrm-08.jpg gemini
jrm-09.jpg door couture
jrm-10.jpg starrygaze
jrm-11.jpg myveil
Alex Isaacs
Where Are We Going?
In the light of current national and global events how clear is our future and how much control as individuals do we have over the path ahead?
Alex Isaacs 01 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 02 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 03 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 04 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 05 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 06 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 07 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 08 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 09 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 10 Where are we going
Alex Isaacs 11 Where are we going
Eric Williams
A Canal-Side Walk
We often overlook the local and obvious locations when out photographing but with a little post-processing, the mundane can be turned into something a little more mysterious. This set of images was taken on my iPhone during a canal-side walk heading north from the Commandery. I’ve presented them in a way that suggests other-worldliness or at least, portals into other worlds.
01_Altered Reality
02_Parallel Universe
03_The Lock Keeper
04_Portal
05_Industrial
06_Perfect Reflection
07_SwansnawS
08_The Other Place
09_Winter Reeds
10_Half Mast for Brexit
11_Topsy Turvy
John Hoath
This and That
Pictures for a hand-made artist’s book. This is a small selection; there will be others in mono and colour. Plus accompanying poetry not yet written though I am working on it. A very short statement but I think it gets the message across.
J Hoath 01 You may see a salmon
J Hoath 02 River
J Hoath 03 River
J Hoath 04 river
J Hoath 05 Stream
J Hoath 06 Stream-1
J Hoath 07 river
J hoath 08 Steam
J Hoath 09 River
J Hoath 10 river
J Hoath 11 New Variant
Stewart Bourne
Portals
I am constantly searching for sights, sounds and situations that, for me, have a transcendent quality, a sense of ‘otherness’, that resonate at the borderlines of consciousness, and hint at states that I cannot readily comprehend or even begin to understand.This is deeply personal, and the recognition can make its presence felt in many situations and circumstances relating to the environment in which I find myself and the nature of the mood and reflections it engenders. This is, of course, a doomed quest in that all I can perceive are hints that by their very nature are probably inexorably tied to that moment in time and circumstance, but it is one of the reasons that I attempt to capture images. Images that by their very nature are reflections of reflections of transient hints. Reminds me of a Victorian nonsense poem, On Sunday night upon the stair, I saw a man who was not there, he was not there again today, oh, how I wish he would go away.
Stewart Bourne 01 Transitions
Stewart Bourne 02 Portal
Stewart Bourne 03 allusios
Stewart Bourne 04 drifting memories
Stewart Bourne 05 rusty swords
Stewart Bourne 06 Tartarus
The Lote Tree Stewart Bourne 07
Stewart Bourne 08 the remorceful day
Stewart Bourne 09 The Ghost Road
Stewart Bourne 10 ecce homo
Stewart Bourne 11 Ark
Tessa Mills
'A Fist Full of Treacle'
Today, reality feels like trying to grasp a fist full of treacle. The more I try to grab hold, and make sense of a difficult situation, the more it slips slimily through my fingers. The origins remain recognisable, as in I know what it is, but the actual understanding of the situation and feeling some sort of personal control has gone.
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Bob Oakley
Chips with Everything
No visit to the seaside would be complete without Fish & Chips. In some places it is hard to avoid the chips if you are on a strict diet. It could almost be a Vegetarian- or Vegan-Free Zone. These pictures were taken at Weston-super-Mare. Around every corner is a cafe with tempting offers and seemingly almost everything comes with chips. Personally I love them as long as the sauce is brown and it’s HP. Having chips with your brown sauce is what the seaside is all about!
Bob Oakley_01_Fried Chicken & Chips
Bob Oakley_02_Fish, Chips & The Pier
Bob Oakley_03_Traditional Hand Battered F&C
Bob Oakley_04-Nothing but chips at Harry’s Bar
Bob Oakley_05_£1.50 a portion - a smile is extra
Bob Oakley_06_Cod & Chips £5.95
Bob Oakley_07_Fish & Chips - Beach cafe.
Bob Oakley_08_ Seafront Fish & Chips
Bob Oakley_09_Sixways Chippy
Bob Oakley_010_York Hotel F&C
Bob Oakley_011_Salt & Sauce
Clive Haynes
A Winter Tapestry
Deep black shadows lace through boughs Incised with light Winter etched upon the sky The skeletal trees and ragged leaves of winter cause us to reflect. Their many bifurcations remind us of decisions; do we do this or should we do that? We enjoy their visual intersections’ and contrasts Society is an intricate tapestry and like skeletal trees, our ‘branches’ constantly interface between the past, an evolving present and possible futures. Through in-camera double-exposure, this series explores the fragmentary nature of these intersections.
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-1n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-2n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-2nn
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-3n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-5n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-6n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-7n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-8n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-9n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-10n
A Winter Tapestry © Clive Haynes MMXI-11n
Geoff Hicks
Hardwick Hall
When we're in Derbyshire we volunteer regularly for the National Trust at Hardwick Hall, one of England's great Elizabethan houses. Lockdown means we aren't volunteering right now, nor will we be until early spring perhaps. I miss the place, so the other day I went to top up my friendship. These images are the outcome. .
Geoff Hicks 01 Welcome To Hardwick
Geoff Hicks 02 Into The Stableyard
Geoff Hicks 03 Shop Closed, For Now
Geoff Hicks 04 Into The Garden
Geoff Hicks 05 Hairy Hops
Geoff Hicks 06 The Bell Tower
Geoff Hicks 07 I Can Do Pretty
Geoff Hicks 08 All Dressed Up
Geoff Hicks 09 The West Front
Geoff Hicks 10 West Loggia Refurbishment
Geoff Hicks 11 Ghost Through The Trees
Dr. Charles Ashton
Going Underground
Over the last five years I have periodically taken images of the London Underground whenever I’ve had the opportunity. This set is a collection of my favourites encompassing both people and architecture. Various techniques and processing styles have been used to suit what I thought was appropriate at the time.
Charles Ashton 01 Going Underground
charles Ashton 02 Another Crazy day
Charles Ashton 03 Colour Coordination
Charles Ashton 04 Riding The London Underground
Charles Ashton 05 Waiting
Charles Ashton 06 Gants Hill
Charles Ashton 07 Social Distancing
Charles Ashton 08 Down
Charles Ashton 09 Southwalk
Charles Ashton 10 Canary Wharf
Charles Ashton 11 Earls Court
Paul Mann Related by Title
My photographs are from an incomplete 365 project. The eleven pictures were chosen because the titles reflect how I felt about them at the time of taking (with the exception of no. 5 which I have changed). The titles can also form a random dialogue as “Let’s Face It - The Party’s Over - Give Me Just a Little More Time - But Not Today - A Brexit Wedding - Stop Before It’s Too Late - In the Circles of Confusion”. The other four titles are related by being tools frequently used by me during lockdown namely, “A Website - We are on Line - A Network” which all “Shed Some Happiness”. I hope you follow my ranting but if not please enjoy the photos anyway.
Paul Mann 01 Lets face it
Paul Mann 02 The Party’s over
Paul Mann 03 Give me just a little more time
Paul Mann 04 But not today
Paul Mann 05 A Brexit Wedding
Paul Mann 06 Stop before it’s too late
Paul Mann 07 In the Circles of confusion
Paul Mann 08 A Website
Paul Mann 09 We are on-line
Paul Mann 10 The Network
Paul Mann 11 Shed some happiness
Richard Sarginson
Jwildfire Exploration
Clive gave an introduction to Jwildfire flame fractals earlier in the Club year. I have been producing images using it and exploring its capabilities. These are a few images that I have made. As abstracts, the titles show you my initial thoughts; but what can you see in them?
Richard Sarginson 01 Ferns by Torch Light
Richard Sarginson 02 A Web But Not As We Know It
Richard Sarginson 03 The Green Sun
Richard Sarginson 04 Millipedes
Richard Sarginson 05 Light - Is it a wave or a particle
Richard Sarginson 06 Its Not Human
Richard Sarginson 07 Perhaps it was a flag
Richard Sarginson 08 Fire Flower
Richard Sarginson 09 Our Fractured World
Richard Sarginson 10 The Swirl of the Pipes
Richard Sarginson 11 The Egg Growing Chambers
Peter Young
The Human Condition
To understand one’s life is complicated, It’s not a puzzle or a problem that one solves And that is that. You’d simply be frustrated From seeing how your own CV evolves. You might imagine that your life’s been planned, But in the end, there is no promised land. The path you take is not already plotted, You make it as you go. This path is dotted With rules and laws to keep you safe and well, Although you’ll gripe, creating merry hell. You have the time to stop and stand and stare And maybe offer up a silent prayer, Reflecting on the person you’re becoming. Whatever happens, learn to see the good As you mature in healthy adulthood. Your future’s out of sight, yet keeps on coming. Although some expectations go astray Your childhood dreams and wishes soon outgrown, There’s help at hand; you’re going to be OK Adventuring into the great unknown.
Peter Young 01 It’s Complicated
Peter Young 02 The Way In
Peter Young 03 Take Care
Peter Young 04 Do as You’re Told
Peter Young 05 Follow the Rules
Peter Young 06 Be Patient
Peter Young 07 Pets Welcome
Peter Young 08 Waiting for Life to Happen
Peter Young 09 It Seems Far Away
Peter Young 10 Expectations may not be Fulfilled
Peter Young 11 Help is at Hand
Worcestershire Camera Club Contemporary Photography Group ‘Viewpoint’ © January 2021