Juliet welcomed Jean as our first visiting speaker of the year. Whilst we were waiting for the lecture proper to start at 7 pm, Jean played a slide show of wonderful images of puffins on Skomer.
She then dealt with the main principles of composition, starting with the Fibonacci series and the "rule of thirds". She used as examples some of her own photographs, and explained potential pitfalls to avoid.
Over refreshments we had a lively dialogue: Jean had brought in mounted examples of a range of her fine photographs, and we were asked to identify our favourite and least favourite images, and to explain our reasons. It was fascinating to see that the same image could be rated high and low by different members. The main reason for favouring a particular photo was that it chimed with happy memories of favourite places and themes.
Sylvia concluded the evening by delivering an enthusiastic vote of thanks.
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