Theme Favourite
Down Pick Up Goods
Tony Teague
Joint Theme Print Favourite
Big Barrels, Villa Casagrande
Tony Teague
Joint Theme Print Favourite
Milford Sound
Kevan Brassington
Image of the Month Favourite
Looking At You
Colin Waite
A new year and a start to our 2025 Programme which kicked off with the Show and Tell theme of Leading Lines.
One of a number of compositional tools used by photographers, Leading Lines (sometimes referred to as Lead In Lines), uses a feature in the foreground to pull the viewer's attention into the photo and towards the subject. These 'lines' can be anything, from the physical, like a path or a hedge, to a lighter, darker or more colourful feature that draws the attention.
The beauty of this type of theme is that it's wide open to interpretation and with our members needing no excuse to use their imagination, we are guaranteed to see a huge range of subjects. Many images incorporated physical leading lines: roads, paths, lights, bridges and canals being a few of these examples. Others were more subtle using sunbeams, a black staircase on a building or dark stripes of mown grass.
With such a wide variety of strong photos to choose from it was inevitable that members votes would be widely spread between them. When the votes were counted there was a clear preference towards physical leading lines - images with a path, stream and bridge were popular. The photo with the most votes had lines of a different sort - railway lines, in Tony Teague's Down Pick Up Goods, an atmospheric shot of a steam loco hauling a freight train at Butterley Railway Centre.
This month we had a section for printed images of the theme. There were only three entries this month, two of which received the most votes: Kevan Brassington's grand landscape, Milford Sound and Tony Teague's print of the monumental Big Barrels, Villa Casagrande.
Our Image of the Month round contains photos taken since our last Show and Tell meeting. The recent cold, damp and dour weather had dissuaded some members from venturing forth and they had enterprisingly taken their photos in, or from, the warmth of their own homes. Others had been more adventurous (or foolhardy) and had braved the conditions to capture some lovely frosty and misty photos. By far and away the most popular image was by Colin Waite who had risked frostbitten extremities to photograph an owl in flight, staring straight at the viewer, in his Looking at You.
Which photo would you have voted for? Let us know by emailing info@whphoto.club.
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