BEST EVENING SO FAR AT LCC

The visit of top photographer John Davenport, FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB, who made the difficult trip around the M25 from his home in a village near Ashford in Kent to talk to talk to Leigh Camera Club on Thursday evening (November 15) provided the best and most interesting evening in the season so far.

John’s photography is very traditional. He still works in slide film and uses an old Canon F1 with a range of lenses for his work.

As the several hundred slides he showed demonstrated, he is a master of his art and his talk entitled "Observation and Variation" showed he is a great believer in returning time and again to the same often small locations at different times of the year, and in different lighting conditions.

Many of the shots were taken within a mile or two of his home on the edge of the North Kent Downs and near his parents’ home on the Yorkshire Moors  at Christmas time, though he devoted another section of the evening to a similar annual return to a location in Provence at lavender harvest times.

He said he rarely uses filters apart from a Polariser and his pictures were taken at all times of the day.

Unfortunately John does not have a web site, but if you missed the evening make sure you enter his name in your diary and don’t miss any future visit he may make to the club, for I am sure that with the enthusiasm shown by members for his pictures and advice, he must be asked back in a future season for another of his series of lectures.