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Phone Photography

Tonight’s images for the Godalming Photographic Club competition had to be taken on a phone. Manipulation off the phone was permitted. I used Lightroom on my phone, after trialling some of the effects on the desktop version.

Lattice Window, Lacock Abbey (after Fox Talbot)

This is a replica of what some regard as the ‘first photograph‘, and I thought it was interesting to see what a modern phone could do with the subject. I did edit this to differently expose the inside and outside areas. I don’t suppose Fox Talbot had that option for his first images!

Yellow Rose

This image was taken at a members evening at the club, where we had the opportunity to take still life images of various subjects. For the edit here, I used only Apple Photos, mostly to get just the right 1:1 crop.

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People and Portraits

For tonight’s competition, the theme was ‘People and Portraits’

Richard, curious in Brussels

A lesson in storytelling here – the judge entirely missed that the dog is a statue. I think I would need more of it in the frame to make that clearer.

Sprint

Taken at the Guildford Crits, in 2022.

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Print Competition Entries

In the second competition of the 2024/25 season, I could enter two images from different genres, as prints:

Choice at Mam Tor

One of the earliest images I took with an SLR camera, this was taken in 2015 in the Peak District. I’ve liked it since then, and I re-developed it for this version, better capturing the sky and shadow detail.

Lupin

This is a more recent image, and from a series I took this summer to share our garden. This has been a postcard mailed to Richard, and was also part of my final submission for the Discover Your Genre course I took.