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Welcome to YOUR Village Voice from jenny@maldenmedia.co.uk Well, what a year…

Treble jabbed, have still managed to avoid catching Covid and who would have thought that we are now looking forward (not!) to spending our 2nd Christmas home alone, and New Year’s Eve probably either outside or once again, on Zoom. I’d had my optimistic hat on for this festive period, before new variant Omicron reared its most unwelcomed head. Bah humbug!

But thank goodness for still (as I write) being able to socialise outside and enjoy the company of friends and neighbours to lift the spirits. I hope that you have been enjoying similar and that impromptu get togethers, long dog walks and TV box sets gets us through it!

Please do remember we are here if you’d like to promote your business, club or organisation to a wider audience. Just give me a call. Very good chance I’ll be around! And a huge thanks to everyone who has contributed in 2021.

With very best wishes to you and yours for 2022.

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New Malden History Short Story by Robin Gill When the history of the Maldens and Coombe comes to be written a lot of imagination will be needed by the reader as many of the places referred to will be unrecognisable due to building developments. This has happened consistently over the years, more so since the sixties, but throughout this time, even with the pandemic the area has retained its community feel, thanks to representatives of various local groups and religious organisations.

A recent occurrence of this was the demolition of the shops and houses on the Coombe Road from Alric Avenue to the Railway Station, in the course of which the community lost its first purpose-built post office, and its first cinema amongst others.

Need of a blue plaque On the other side of the road, unbeknown to many if not all the inhabitants stands a building that was home to a family of engineers who have played an extremely important part of our nation’s history. They could count as colleagues, Wilbur and Orville Wright (Wright Brothers) and Charles Stewart Rolls (Rolls-Royce). The address was 5 Station Terrace back in 1898, and to get an idea where that was; Imagine Florists later occupied number 3, now Coombe Beauty and renumbered 20 Coombe Road. It is possible that number 5 is now Sopranos Barbers.

The family were the Short Family. The father Samuel died in Derby on December 11th 1895. Three of the sons and their mother moved south. The mother to Hampstead, and the sons to New Malden. They were to form Britain’s first aircraft manufacturing company (Short Brothers). The three brothers were Horace, Eustace, and Oswald and they moved to Malden around 1897.

In 1890 Horace, who possess an unusual appearance due to a childhood accident that left him disfigured, had been to visit his uncle in Australia and to see more of the world. His adventures included trekking from the River Plate to the Amazon, meeting the author Robert Louis Stevenson and being captured

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by cannibals who worshipped him as a god and taught him how to fish for pearls off the Samoan Islands. Horace then settled as a silver-mine manager in Mexico before returning to England when news of his father’s death reached him from his brother Eustace who received £500.

With this money Eustace, Oswald and Horace were able to buy a coal merchant’s business in New Malden. The two brothers Oswald and Eustace started up the Short Brothers company and they purchased a used coal gas -filled balloon in 1897 called “Queen of the West” for £30 with the intention to develop and construct other balloons.

Balloons The interest in ballooning, particularly in the mind of Eustace, had manifested itself when he took part in an ascent at the Crystal Palace during a fete to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. The first flight in a balloon owned by the Shorts took place at the Teddington Church Temperance Guild Fete on 30th May 1897 in the vicarage meadows and attracted many hundreds of spectators. The balloon had to filled with 35,000 cubic feet of gas prior to take off. This was provided by the local gasworks diverted from the mains by a hundred yards of canvas hose. The whole process took from 12.30 until 5pm. The bags of ballast which weighed the craft down were moved one by one and which the three aeronauts on board and Eustace in control and Leonard to assist, and after the last tie was released, “the golden tinted balloon shot into the air like an arrow from a bow”. There was a round of applause from the assembled throng, before the balloon disappeared into the clouds, leaving behind a number of leaflets advertising future flights which were thrown from the basket.

The balloon soon reached a height of three or four miles, causing the passengers to be affected by temporary deafness and the balloon descended until they were a mile and a half above ground. They reached Otford in Kent where they descended low enough to asked inhabitants where they were. Discovering that they were only ten miles from the coast, they decided

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to descend and after the balloon had landed on its side they scrambled out of the basket. The balloon was then deflated, and packed up, taken to the railway and put on a train to New Malden via London.

Another flight took place in August 1898 this time included all three brothers including Horace. Again, the Temperance Fete at Teddington was the venue with the inflation of the balloon drawing much interest from the crowd. The take off was at 5 o’clock and the balloon remained in the spectators’ sight until it was well over Richmond Park and they decided to descend on Wimbledon Common landing by the flagstaff attracting much interest from the thousands on the Common. After about an hour the balloon was packed away and conveyed to New Malden by wagon.

However, it was not always smooth sailing (if that’s what balloons do) and in 1900 after taking off from a similar spot in Teddington the balloon at about 6 in the evening the balloon was seen to be swaying and caught some trees, it then descended so much that ballast had to be discharged. Making another dip, it

was found that gas was escaping.

All the ballast was immediately discharged but the craft hit some trees at Cobham causing the lower half of the balloon to be torn away and the basket was caught in the branches several feet off the ground.

Fortunately, the passengers were able to climb out of the tree to the ground.

These Flights were to continue for a number of years some more successful than others but always drawing big crowds. One flight nearer to home took place from Dinton fields to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII in 1902. Dinton Fields were close to the Kingston entrance to Richmond Park, and again the main attraction to the assembled crowd was the filling of the balloon with gas which took most of the afternoon. Lift off took place at 6pm, with a cheer from the spectators after the obligatory distribution of flyers from a great height. Unusually for July the passengers soon found themselves in the middle of a snowstorm after five minutes and a further ascent meant that overcoats were the order of the day. They descended around Crystal Palace and landed in a field in Orpington having covered 25 miles in about an hour. The last

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appearance of the Shorts’ balloon locally was at the temperance fete at Teddington in June 1905.

Can you hear me?

Horace having returned in 1898, brought back details of a machine he had been developing called an auxetophone which could amplify the human voice as to be heard miles away. A successful demonstration at the house in Coombe Road was given to the Daily Mail’s representative later in the year. Short patented his idea in 1899 and a demonstration was given from the Eiffel Tower (1900) during the World’s Fair.

Idea deflated After observing some spherical balloons in Paris, the brothers determined how to manufacture similar balloons in Britain. They produced these in 1902, and by 1905 were manufacturing balloons for the British Army. This brought them to the attention of Charles Rolls (Rolls-Royce) who wanted a balloon for the 1906 Gordon Bennett (Owner of the New York Herald) Race.

The contest was to see who could fly their balloon to the furthest point from its start (Paris)without landing.

These flights brought the Wright Brothers to France to demonstrate their new “aircraft” at Le Mans offering passenger flights.

By 1908 having witnessed the success of the Wright Brothers “Flyer”, The Short Brothers came to the conclusion that there was no future for balloon flight, and the world’s first aircraft company was formed, each brother ploughing £200 into the venture.

Illustrations 1. Sopranos barbers Coombe Road 2. Shorts’ balloon in Kingston 3.Short brothers with the Wright Brothers and CS Rolls (Rolls-Royce)

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New Malden Rotary Happy New Year!

Our annual appeal to the people of New Malden for funds is two thirds through its course as I write but it is clear that our community is supporting us even more generously than before. Even after a year’s absence we have been welcomed enthusiastically on the doorsteps when we called. Rudolph and Santa with the sleigh are still an expected part of the New Malden scenery in December and the warmth of the welcome is reflected in the amount of money which has been donated. We thank everyone who has contributed and promise that we shall spend your donations wisely and carefully.

But what for the future?

These days everything depends on Covid and its spread. How fast is omicron infecting the population?

What does that mean to the NHS? What does it mean for all of us? These questions apply to Rotary as well.

If Rotary is to continue serving its Community as it has done since 1929, how does it operate in a safe manner.

This question is forefront in all we do and plan to do.

Practical support Within the last year donations have been made to local organisations which provide Christmas meals to people otherwise alone at Christmas, including Churches and other support groups. We constantly review how we can help the Foodbanks and other charities providing for the those in need. Kingston Hospital Charity has been supported through the pandemic to help with the improvement of staff facilities, particularly on the front line, and we anticipate that such needs will continue to need support. We look at any needs which the community consider important, supporting small scale operations by local people.

What about the lights?

We are already talking about the Christmas lights and what can be done about them next year. The huge expense of taking them down each January and reerecting in November has meant that they have not been properly serviced and cleaned for some years and are gradually failing. Some funds for their renewal have been built up from grants, from RBK and others, and special fundraising but we cannot just replace like for like. The problem of maintenance will still be prohibitively expensive. All options will be considered and we shall work with RBK and specialist suppliers to find a practical and viable solution.

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What about all that money you’ve just raised?

We need to emphasise that the money raised from our Christmas Appeal in December is not used for projects such as the lights or the summer hanging baskets. Funds for these are raised separately, from the business community, from local authority grants and other donations. Our Christmas appeal is for our charitable work; for people in need, young and old, groups and organisations which provide specific aid.

These are mostly local needs but we also support similar needs in the wider world. We do not support large multi-national charities unless we see a specific small-scale need which can be isolated and supported.

In such cases we channel funds through other Rotary Clubs and Districts, using the global reach of Rotary International.

To volunteer or to learn more about Rotary in New Malden and around the world go to our website www. newmaldenrotary.org.uk or follow us on Facebook and Twitter @NewMaldenRotary

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You might be surprised to learn that you can keep many unusual and exotic animals as pets in the UK without needing a licence.

They include marmoset monkeys, capybaras, octopus, African pygmy hedgehogs, tarantulas and boa constrictor snakes. But under the Dangerous Wild Animal Act, you are not permitted to keep creatures including wild boar, camels, chimpanzees, badgers, bears and dingos unless you have a licence granted by your local council. To gain a licence you’ll need to prove that you are knowledgeable about the animals and that you have appropriate facilities for housing them.

Last year, Dangerous Wild Animal licences were granted for just under 4,000 animals here in the UK, which represented an increase of over 50 per cent. They included crocodiles, tigers, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, primates, venomous snakes and scorpions. Apart from the safety issues of keeping wild animals as pets, together with animal welfare concerns,

there is a very real danger of exotic species escaping and becoming feral. There are now thousands of parakeets that live in and around London, thought to have originated from the pet trade. Red-eared terrapins are also seen in ponds within urban parks and it is unknown at this stage if they are capable of breeding here.

There is one pet in our midst, however, that has a huge negative effect on wildlife. The humble cat! Some countries are considering banning domestic cats from roaming outside whilst others have discussed bans on cat ownership in a bid to protect biodiversity.

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Parkin’ some thoughts Mine’s a pint by Nick Hazell I was naturally a glass half empty person. A chronic health problem had the effect of making me realise that at least I had something to drink from. Until now, this ability to swig from the pint glass of positivity has served me well, but as the bells ring time on 2021, I fear the taste has gone a bit sour.

There’s indeed a lot to be said for the power of positive thought. I think it may have been Hippocrates who said “the natural healing force in each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” Who am I to disagree? In the current pestilential environment though, I’m fast running out of the ability to see the light at the end of this particular tunnel, an endeavour unaided by the cancellation of the 14:36 to London Waterloo due to the driver’s less than positive, positive PCR result.

The New Year is meant to be a time of celebration. A time of looking forward with friends and excitement to the next 365 days.

This year, though I can’t help but feel pleased just to have made it through the last one. As 2022 begins, it has the look and feel of the one before it and the one before that and even the most idiotic optimist would have trouble resisting the temptation to pick up the remains of my pint and pour it over their head.

But am I wrong to feel so negative. It’s all relative right? Many of us have relished a chance to slow down and reevaluate, even with remote schooling! Staying upbeat and being rational and appreciative of what we have amidst the madness should be the way forward. Shouldn’t it? Indeed, it has not all been bad. There have also been some good things that happened last year. Scientists revealed that cheese isn’t bad for you, Donald Trump was banned from Twitter and my pizza oven finally made it through the Suez Canal.

Throwing a shadow over all this though has been the not so invisible cloak of Covid.

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Initially it was an interesting diversion

undertaken in fine weather. Now it’s a journey of uncertain duration in the cold and wet and about as fun and uplifting as an Eastenders Christmas special. As it goes on, this pandemic has lurched towards us in terrifying waves, receded to an inconvenient swell only to return in a more than mildly terrifying tsunami.

We don’t really know if the vaccines throw enough light on the safety exits. I’ve taken more jabs than Tyson Fury and I still can’t go out for a coffee without looking like Dick Turpin.

I suppose we can’t give up. Maybe this year there will be a breakthrough. Maybe 2022 will be different. Maybe it will be the year where my pint glass will be returned full. After all, two years in and we’re only on Plan B. At least there are another 24 other letters of the alphabet!

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1.

Which computer pioneer and codebreaker features on the new Bank of England 50 pound note that entered circulation in 2021?

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Before later admitting it was an April Fool’s joke to help promote its upcoming electric cars, which car manufacturer said in a press release that it was changing the fourth letter in its name to a “t”?

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At the 2021 Brit Awards, who became the first ever all-female group to win the Best British Group award?

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Which online fashion retailer bought the brand Debenhams in January and the brands Burton, Wallis and Dorothy Perkins in February?

5.

Name the only two players to score for England in the penalty shoot-out of the UEFA Euro 2020 Final.

6.

Which British city was stripped of its UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021 due to developments along its waterfront?

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In 2021, El Salvador become the first country in the world to make what legal tender?

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Instead of its usual course on the River Thames, the 2021 University Boat Race was held in Cambridgeshire on a stretch of which river?

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2021 saw which 83-year-old become the oldest ever person to win an Academy Award for acting?

10. Name the three countries who finished above Great Britain in the medal table at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Health Healthier alternatives to sugar Blamed for everything from obesity to tooth decay, sugar has gone from being a symbol of wealth to an international health crisis. Sugar’s addictive qualities combined with its prevalence in everyday convenience food make it difficult to consume in safe quantities.

Thankfully, healthier alternatives are now available, promising lower-calorie or more nutritious substitutes to our favourite sweetener. To help you navigate the ever-growing world of sugar alternatives, here are the best ones to add to your shopping basket in 2022.

Honey Quite possibly the most popular alternative sweetener on the market, honey is packed full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. However, like table sugar, it’s also high in calories and breaks down to glucose and fructose, so unfortunately poses some of the same health risks.

Unlike sugar though, honey has been linked to improved heart health and lower blood pressure.

Plus, its soothing, healing qualities make it a great cold remedy.

Coconut sugar Made from coconut palm sap, coconut sugar is another natural sweetener to consider if you’re looking to lower your sugar intake.

While regular sugar contains no nutrients, coconut sugar requires little processing and so retains small amounts of iron, zinc, calcium, potassium and antioxidants. Although this makes it a healthier option, coconut sugar still contains the same number of calories as normal sugar, so should be used sparingly.

Stevia The holy grail of sugar alternatives, stevia is a natural sweetener that’s extracted from the leaves of a South American shrub. Unbelievably, it contains zero calories while being up to 350 times sweeter than sugar, meaning that you need much less to satisfy your sugar craving.

Although it’s non-chemical, stevia extracts do have a noticeable aftertaste. However, it does come in various forms, including powder and liquid, so it’s worth shopping around to find one you like.

Sugar alcohols A type of sweet carbohydrate, sugar alcohols are processed from plant fibres such as birch, berries and cornhusks, and contain half the number of calories as sugar.

Don’t be deceived by the name; sugar alcohols don’t actually contain any ethanol – or sugar for that matter. Unlike regular sugar, they don’t cause tooth decay or an increase in blood sugar. Plus, they’re low in fructose too – sugar’s most harmful ingredient.

Erythritol, xylitol and sorbitol are just a few examples to look out for in ingredient lists. Commonly found in jams, sweets and chewing gum, they’re also used in sweetener brands such as Truvia.

Yacon syrup Agave syrup and maple syrup are hard to top, but the latest syrup to enter the market is that of the yacon kind.

Extracted from the South American yacon plant, this sweet, dark, thick syrup contains a special type of sugar molecule that our bodies can’t digest. This means that it contains just one-third of the calories of regular sugar, making it the latest craze amongst dieters.

Its high fructan content has also linked it to an array of health benefits, from helping constipation to lowering blood sugar. What’s not to love?

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Friday Night Cocktail Club The Old Fashioned by Ali Warner I wrote this the day after my first hangover in forever and believe me the last thing on my to-do list was to top up my remorse with more units of alcohol.

I found a cocktail on the International Bartender’s Association’s website called ‘The Suffering Bxxxxxxd’ which promised to be the perfect New Year hangover cure for me and my suffering self esteem but on the grounds of decency I vetoed it.

The last thing you or I need to start 2022 is unnecessary swears on top of two pints of water and some Paracetamol.

Instead I have opted to begin dry January wonderfully wet with a retro cocktail called ‘The Old Fashioned’ something that I’m going to happily embrace as a lifestyle choice this year.

No more down with the kids for this Warner. I don’t really get TikTok, non-fungible tokens sound like they need an ointment and I definitely prefer meeting and socialising IRL than in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse.

I’m ready to embrace the beauty of basics in 2022. I might consider a booster jab of life goals in June but until then I’d like to order an extra large dose of normal please.

Being ‘old fashioned’ might not be very de rigeur but when it comes to drinks it has a lovely lingering, lasting quality to it.

This short, strong drink required you to sip it slowly. You need to sit down somewhere comfy and appreciate it. Forget tinkly glasses and the social whirl, this is one to spend time with in a lovely analogue way - maybe accompanied by a book instead of your kindle or 2 sides of your youthful vinyl rather than the mad daily mixes of Spotify.

Technically, you can make it with just about anything you have in your home bar. The base spirit can be almost anything (mezcal and aged rum are popular these days) but brandy, rye and especially bourbon are considered the most historically accurate.

I’m not much of a whiskey drinker myself which is ironic considering my Irish blood, but I am happy to quaff a bourbon. I was introduced to the old fashioned made with Buffalo Trace which is considered a decent reasonably priced option by people who know more about bourbon than me - but as discussed rum and whiskey are options too.

The ingredients you need 1 teaspoon of sugar 3 dashed of Angostura bitters 1 teaspoon of water 2 oz of bourbon or the spirit of your choice 1 wide strip orange peel to garnish Ice How to make it You need a short tumble style glass for this - ideal for giving your cut glass an airing.

Put the sugar 3 dashed of bitters in a tumbler.

Add the water and stir gently until most of the sugar is dissolved.

Fill the glass with ice cubes, add the bourbon/scotch or rum and stir to combine.

Fold the orange peel in half and squeeze over the top of the glass until its aromatic oils are released - it doesn’t matter if it drops into the glass or stays on the surface.

Drop the peel into the glass as garnish.

Sit down, take a breath and a big sip and make God grant you old fashioned health and happiness this new year.

Many bartenders consider the recipe for ‘The Old Fashioned’ to be the original, primordial cocktail, one that’s largely still made according to the oldest known cocktail recipe, dating from the first decade of the 19th century.

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All the colours of the rainbow

by Caroline Knight

Joy in the winter garden The start of a new year often represents fresh hopes for good things to come. It is therefore the perfect time to review your patch of outdoor space to ensure it will provide pleasure – even in January.

Look through your windows to the garden, should you be lucky enough to have one. Does it fill you with joy?

There’s no reason why it shouldn’t continue to excite you in winter if you concentrate on both structure and colour. It really needs to sparkle, with or without frost.

You need either strong structural design that looks stunning at any time of year, or a wonderful array of rainbow shades, punctuated by architectural forms.

But how can you achieve this?

Planting a rainbow Aim to provide something that fits into the chart of the seven visible spectrum colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Almost certainly, you will already have some green – but do you realise how many different shades of green exist? Of course, there are several hundred and you don’t need to replicate them all! The secret of good greens is to have one shade set off against another – dark and light is the classic combination to create impact. How about having some ornamental grasses such as Carex ‘Ice Dance’, a sedge that creates a light, bright mound, in front of a dark green evergreen hedge, a holly or a conifer? You can play with greens all year round, but January is the month they can really bring the show alive.

Reds for the winter garden Think about stems and bark as well as flowers, foliage and berries. There is a feast of red opportunity to warm up the month. The fiery stems of Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’ or Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’ will set the border ablaze, particularly if you prune down your cornus in late winter or very early spring so that the new growth is pleasingly vertical. The bark of Prunus serrula, or Tibetan cherry, with its rich mahogany shine, can look stunning against a backdrop of dark green hedging or the brown leaves of winter beech.

Lower to the ground you might consider heuchera such as H. ‘Forever Red’ or H. ‘Paprika’. Then we have rhododendrons, some of which can be adorned with a blousy show of scarlet this month. Select the early-flowering R. ‘Lee’s Scarlet’ or R. ‘Nobleanum

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Coccineum’ for some January cheer. Don’t forget those red-flowering evergreen camellias too – their winter flowers stand out like beacons against the dark green foliage.

Create orange and yellow sunshine in the garden Pop a few ornamental grasses into your borders or pots and January will glow. The low, mounded form of Anemanthele lessoniana is a great little plant for providing year-round joy. If you have the space, clumps of tall miscanthus with its warm, yellow-orange stems and seed heads will look stunning in January, providing both structure and colour. Choose an orange-stemmed cornus for vertical accent and dot these plants around your garden in repeated forms to bring the picture together. If you have space under shrubs and bare January trees, plant Eranthis hyemalis, the winter aconite. It will create a spreading, golden carpet provided you give it a semi-shady spot. Then for a magnificently structural statement, Mahonia ‘Winter Sun’ is hard to beat. It produces bright yellow, scented flowers at the darkest time of year and is a great plant for brightening a dull corner.

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also be clipped every year so that it retains a shrub form with blue young leaf colour. For an indigo or violet hue, consider the conifer Cryptomeria japonica, which turns a pleasing shade of purple in winter.

Evergreen heucheras can provide low mounds of purple foliage to line your paths and provide a safe haven for garden wildlife.

Your winter garden is likely to be viewed through glass for much of this month, so help it to come alive with colour!

Caroline Knight: Gardendesignideas.co.uk Beat the winter blues with garden blue, indigo and violet Once again, versatile grasses can fit the bill. Blue fescue is an evergreen grass that can create winter blues that you’ll welcome, rather than a downward mood swing! There are plenty of conifers with steelyblue foliage to provide structure and colour, including Juniperus ‘Blue Star’, a low, spreading, sculptural plant that will provide weed-suppressing groundcover too.

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A Photographer Dreams...

by Hugh Griffiths www.creativelight.org.uk – my holiday snaps are mostly there to remind me of the good time that my wife and I had on our break.

You should try it – there is no guarantee that what you create will be satisfying, but you will definitely have fun trying!

January is the time for all those resolutions – the ones that you keep for the day you make them and then spend a week or so thinking of excuses … and then forget.

This time, I need to be completely honest and admit that I didn’t take many photos last January, so my first picture is from 2020.

(Actually, I don’t suppose that any of you really care about that!)

Can you remember back to January 2020: ‘pandemic’ was still a word that we rarely heard, and we were freely able to go out and about, without masks, without Covid passports. Little did we know about what was to come.

So, I went to the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park one afternoon in mid-January; I was hoping to see some nice tree photos but instead came across this camellia opening its petals for all to see and to rejoice in. The leaves are just as striking, with their dark, glossy surfaces. This one was in the garden near Thomson’s Pond, which is the way I go after looking at (and loving) Peg’s Pond at the top of the Isabella. I’ve taken loads of photos of these beautiful flowers in the past and I wanted to do something a bit different this time.

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I may have talked about ‘Intentional Camera Movement’ (also known as ICM by photographers) in the past – but just in case you haven’t read all my articles I’ll explain it now. It means that you move the camera deliberately while the photo is being taken. It works best if you are using a slow speed, less light (more movement), but works whatever the light is like. I jiggled the camera up and down as I took this photo. ICM can give a dream like feeling to a picture, and I LOVE dream like feelings.

One of my friends at the camera club manages to do this in some of her landscape photos – really lovely. The effect is almost like an Impressionist painting, another style that I enjoy. It doesn’t claim to be a record of what I saw – this is a more artistic view of what I saw.

Photography is as much about art as it is about records

We had snow last year in January! In some ways the fact that it doesn’t happen often, and doesn’t last long either, is a bit sad. Snow looks beautiful and can be enjoyed by everybody. (My dog, Poppy absolutely adores the snow and spends an inordinate amount of time rubbing her back and her ears in it).

But it is also cold (d’uh!), and if I had to make a personal choice between coldness and warmth there wouldn’t be any hesitation in saying that I prefer to be warm. I much prefer the weather I experienced in South Africa with temperatures of up to about 40C in the Kruger.

However, I don’t live there, New Malden has been my home for nearly 40 years, and cold weather is part and parcel of living in the UK. So, I try to make the most of it and photograph the snowy scenes around me. This photo is my back garden, with the summer house in the background and our laurel tree in the foreground.

(I know it looks like a Christmas tree that is falling down – but it isn’t!). It was important to me to make sure that I showed not only the tree with the snow on its branches, but also the context it is in. So, you can see the snowflakes falling, the blurred shape of the summer house and some of the surrounding trees.

Even though the main focus of the picture is the snowy laurel, it would be a pretty dull image if that was all the picture contained. Sometimes (not always, mind) it is essential to have that context, the background, in order to make a photo work. As here, it doesn’t matter if they are out of focus. They need to be there to fill it out. While much of my photography these days tends towards a more minimalist approach, there are times

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the side. I wanted to show the way that the petals curl and touch – almost a sensuous image (heaven forbid!); and I think it’s succeeded.

The bits of dark background at the edges are important to give a sense of containment to the picture; I could certainly have cropped it in to get rid of them but, in my view, it would take away a lot of the power from the picture.

Again, this is something anyone can try – you don’t need a specialist lens or camera, a smartphone is usually plenty good enough. And the result is something that is different from most flower pictures. when that just doesn’t work!

I do like flowers. But I am getting slightly bored with standard photos of these things. The colours are nice, the shapes are nice, but I’ve simply seen too many nice pictures of a single flower, or a bunch of flowers, to grab my interest. Mind you, as Sean Connery was reputed to have said, ‘Never say Never’ before doing yet another Bond film, I do still take those photos, so long as I can see something different in the presentation.

There is in fact a lot of detail in a flower that can lead to nice patterns and shapes – helped by the colours. In this picture, I have taken an orange rose that we had in the house and photographed it with a macro lens from

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