Never Mind The Weather - September 2024

As well as the name of our theme for September, 'Never Mind The Weather' could also have been an exhortation to go out and take photos in spite of the recent poor conditions.

We photographers are reliant on light for our images and the weather has a direct influence upon this. With that in mind we expected to see our members submit images that showed not just weather conditions but also subjects influenced by the weather.

The beauty of this month's theme is that there's always going to be weather - just poke your head out the door to see it. And when it's raining you can just take a photo of it through the window, which is what a few of our members did. This month we encouraged members to submit prints in lieu of digital images and looking at the prints that were exhibited we were reminded how good photos can look.

Whilst a couple of photos did include the sun, precipitation in its many forms - mist, rain, snow - was the subject of many of the members' submissions, perhaps echoing the type of year we've had to date. It was the latter two types of weather that were the subjects of the images voted the favourites. Weather Seen Through Car Window by Trevor Jordan is almost an abstract - rain on a windscreen distorting an view of a street with a rainbow arcing above. The frozen form of rain was captured by David Kallmeier in his Snowy Walk a minimalist shot which shows a group of walkers walking by a fence.

There was no Image of the Month section this month, instead we took the opportunity to show photos made by our members for our August challenge of 'Windows'. It seems most of us spent August pointing our cameras at windows as there nearly 30 images to look at it. This subject is so varied - all shapes, sizes, materials and ages combine to create an almost limitless range of subjects. Have a look at the images below. In the end members voted for Window, Framed by Adrian Chandler - a rusty, metal frame festooned with cobwebs framing a similar window on the far side of the building.

Which photo would you have voted for? Let us know by emailing info@whphoto.club.

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