Volume II
Contents
Alex Isaacs - ‘Macro Adventure’ Angie Hill - ‘Meetings with Shadows and Ancient Things’ Tineke Morgan - ‘Blurred, Colours and Shapes’ Ruth Bourne - ‘Alternate Realities’ Karen Dewson - ‘Daily Observations’ Maddy Pennock - ‘Quiet in the Landscape’ James Boardman-Woodend - ‘Abstract Photography’ Judy Knights - ‘Auschwitz’ Barrie Glover - ‘Locked-down, Locked-out, Locked-in and Looking-back’
Alex Isaacs Macro Adventure
These images are contemporary because they have been taken as a result of lockdown. Macro Photography is not something I have attempted seriously before. The subjects of the images were found either in my garden or in my fridge. Aphids, tomatoes and cucumbers all presented their own challenges which I very much enjoyed trying to overcome.
Alex Isaacs 01 cucumber one
Alex Isaacs 02 Cucumber two
Alex Isaacs 03 Cucumber three
Alex Isaacs 04 tomato one
Alex Isaacs 05 tomato two
Alex Isaacs 06 tomato three
Alex Isaacs 07 Aphid one
Alex Isaacs 08 Aphid two
Alex Isaacs 09 Aphid three
Alex Isaacs 10 Aphid four
Alex Isaacs 11 Aphid five
Angie Hill
Meetings with Shadows and Ancient Things
These images were taken locally in and around my village of Martley during my permitted daily walks. I am fascinated by shapes and patterns and things that aren't always what they seem to be, especially the way light can create something out of nothing. The ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary. A hidden and magical world where Triassic mermaids swim in a vertical quarry face, where shadows slide across green water like gauze veils and where ancient trees tell stories of harsh times and survival. In the woods the light creates abstract sculpture and calligraphic shapes.
Angie Hill 01 Embrace
Angie Hill 02 Shadow calligraphy
Angie Hill 03 Ancient wounds
Angie Hill 04 Dark Veil
Angie Hill 05 Shadow dance
Angie Hill 06 Sculptural
Angie Hill 07 Breaking the Surface
Angie Hill 08 Walking on water
Angie Hill 09 Triassic faultlines
Angie Hill 10 Another world
Angie Hill 11 Triassic mermaid
Tineke Morgan Blurred, Colours and Shapes
These handmade blurred patterns are made using special techniques, styles and colours. Typically they consist of folding, twisting, pleating, styling and colouring and treatments on pieces of cotton, silks, fabrics or garments called 'Shibori Tie-Dye'. I see 'Shibori Tie-Dye' as an art form. I took the other two 'Blurred Images at Night' when I was in Bali. I was surprised to see the result of these images. For me, the combination of wood, brass, colours and details on my 'Wooden Brass Textures' image looks unique in panel style.
Tineke Morgan 01 Handmade Blurred Patterns
Tineke Morgan 02 Handmade Blurred Patterns
Tineke Morgan 03 Handmade Blurred Patterns
Tineke Morgan 04 Curly Shapes
Teneke Morgan 05 Wooden Brass Textures
Teneke Morgan 06 Blurrred Garden at Night
Teneke Morgan 07 Blurrred Trees at Night
Ruth Bourne Alternate Realities
A quick dip into my back catalogue. These are presented primarily as individual images, the common link being the use of various camera techniques that capture a somewhat different view, including longer and double exposures and intentional camera movement.
Ruth Bourne 01 She passes by
Ruth Bourne 02 -Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!-_
Ruth Bourne 03 Clusters
Ruth Bourne 04 Entanglements
Ruth Bourne 05 Living doll
Ruth Bourne 06 Immured spirit
Ruth Bourne 07 Eades Meadow spring_
Ruth Bourne 08 The Arrival
Ruth Bourne 09 Seek the fount
Ruth Bourne 010 Passing through
Ruth Bourne 011 Sanctuary
Karen Dewson Daily Observations
As the morning light casts its soft glow highlights track across the landscape of gentle undulations.
Taken with Blackie App on iPhone SE.
Karen Dewson 01
Karen Dewson 02
Karen Dewson 03
Karen Dewson 04
Karen Dewson 05
Karen Dewson 06
Karen Dewson 07
Maddy Pennock Quiet in the Landscape
Everyone is talking about lockdown in towns and cities during this pandemic. Others are leaning out of the window to join in the clapping for NHS front line staff, but what about if you live in the rural countryside? It is silent, bar the sound of birdsong. I am fortunate to be able to walk along the River Severn to get my regular exercise in the quiet of the countryside with little to disturb me save the birds and my family group. Everything is hushed like a winter landscape. I have recreated that peaceful effect by photographing in infrared. There is a hushed beauty as nature continues on its way. I chose to process some of the images using false colour and with some there is a sense of anxiety and impending doom reflecting my response to this virus.
1_Maddy Pennock_Stillness
2_Maddy Pennock_Quiet
3_Maddy Pennock_Behind Closed Doors
4_Maddy Pennock_Together Alone
5_Maddy Pennock_Undisturbed
6_Maddy Pennock_Calm
7_Maddy Pennock_Muffled Landscape
8_Maddy Pennock_A changed Landscape
9_Maddy Pennock_Fantasy Landscape
10_Maddy Pennock_Peaceful Outlook
11_Maddy Pennock_Seclusion
James Boardman-Woodend Abstract Photography
The ‘Snow in the Woodlands’ is an ICM image & the ‘Kilve Rocks’ is a pure straight shot. All the rest are multi-exposure pictures with approx. half of the multi-exposures done on my iPhone using the App ‘PhotoSplit’ & the rest in PhotoShop.
James B-Woodend 01.-Metal & Wood
James B-Woodend 03- Flowers
James B-Woodend 04- Bowl of fruit
James B-Woodend 04- Bowl of fruit
James B-Woodend 05- Covid 19
James -B-Woodend 06- Blue Skies Ahead
James B-Woodend 07- Ejected
James B-Woodend 08- Clear Water
James B-Woodend 09- Snow in the Woods
James B-Woodend 10- Roof Tile
James B-woodend 11- Kilve Rocks
Judy Knights Auschwitz
75 years ago in 1945 saw the Liberation of the Concentration Camps in both Germany and Poland. In 2017 I visited Auschwitz – Birchenau which was the largest of all the camps. It remains to this day a very emotional place and a highly potent reminder of Mans’ inhumanity to Man. I suppose it is some comfort that these places, where such terrible things happened, are being visited by younger generations - I just hope they do actually realise what did happen there.
01_Judy Knights_Main Gate
02_Judy Knights_barrack block
03_Judy Knights_Polish people killed
04_Judy Knights_Shoes taken
05_Judy Knights_Electric fencing
06_Judy Knights_Killing yard memorial
07_Judy_Knights_Extermination_hut
08_Judy Knights_Railway track in
09_Judy Knights_Memorial
Barrie Glover
Locked-down, Locked-out, Locked-in and Looking-back
I haven’t taken a single image with my camera since Buenos Aires in late February, we’ve been in lockdown since after passing through Rome airport. While sorting out my back-catalogue images for Facebook friends I rediscovered an old plugin which I had used as an experiment to discuss with Martin and Clive earlier in the year. I conducted a simple exercise; I used one image and activated each of the thirty options provided in turn, I did not use any of the plethora of available adjusting sliders. I selected an old soft image; it is a photograph of Musk Mallow, a plant that grows in abundance in one small area locally. The first image is my starting point image; I include a selection here which are individually named by the plug-in.
Barrie Glover 01 Musk Mallow
Barrie Glover 02 Ballero
Barrie Glover 03 Brickwork
Barrie Glover 04 Clapper Board
Barrie Glover 05 Crosswalk
Barrie Glover 06 Flakes Power
Barrie Glover 07 Foliation
Barrie Glover 08 Layer Cake
Barrie Glover 09 Shreader
Barrie Glover 10 Surreal
Barrie Glover 11 Woodstock
Worcestershire Camera Club Contemporary Photography Group ‘Viewpoint’ Vol. II © May 2020