North Norfolk Photographic Society

It was the turn for the Printers to have their work judged in the second part of North Norfolk Photographic Society’s ‘Best All Rounder’ competition. Judge for the evening was the charismatic and ever popular Jim Till from Brancaster - an old friend of the Society!

14 members submitted entries - one Landscape, Portrait, Nature study and ‘Open’ picture from each.

Best All Rounder for the Prints section was Roland Riddell with an evocative shot of Braunston Wharf, a beautiful portrait of Kathy, a stunning photo of a Barn Owl leaving a barn, and one of the Red Arrows in Diamond Nine formation, which he entitled ‘Precision Flying’.

The next meeting of the Society will be an illustrated talk ‘My Mind’s Eye’ by Joy Hancock FRPS MPAGB. Joy is well known in Norfolk (and further afield) and with her husband John is a member of the photo club at Mundesley. The meeting at Loades Hall, Holt on Wednesday 18th February starts at 7.30 pm and visitors will be very welcome.

Further details of the Society’s activities and examples of members’ photographs can be found at www.nonops.org, the Society’s website - or ‘phone the Hon. Secretary Judy Knights on 01263 825418

Roland (left) and Jim (right)	Kathy by Roland Riddell	Jim Till in thoughtful mood!

For she’s a very fine Fellow!

On 18th February the North Norfolk Photographic Society enjoyed an illustrated talk ‘My Mind’s Eye’ by Joy Hancock FRPS MPAGB. Joy is well known in Norfolk (and further afield) and she and her husband Mike are members of the Norfolk Photography Group photo club at Mundesley.

Joy worked her way up the rungs of the ladder of the Royal Photographic Society and was admitted as a Fellow a few years ago and showed - as the climax to her talk - her award winning submission of an astonishing panel of 20 images of wild flowers.

No camera was used in these pictures! The background was created with Sun Prints - allowing the light to shine on (say) a fern placed on sensitive paper which when developed shows the shape of the plant‘s shadow - which is how the very earliest photographs in history were made.

‘Photographs’ of wild flowers were then taken using a flat-bed scanner- too many to mention; a lot of them came from the Bayfield Wild Flower centre near Letheringset. The individual flowers (often several dozen in one image) were scanned separately and the whole picture assembled in a computer before being printed.

The next meeting of the Society will be the Annual Print Competition, to be judged by Dave Jordan LRPS at Loades Hall, Holt on Wednesday 4th March and starts at 7.30 pm: visitors will be very welcome.

Further details of the Society’s activities and examples of members’ photographs can be found at www.nonops.org, the Society’s website - or ‘phone the Hon. Secretary Judy Knights on 01263 825418.