Exhibition at the Guild Hall, Arcade Preston

Last week saw the exhibition of the work that everyone produced during the project. It was great to see it all on the walls and we got some lovely comments in the visitor book. Please feel free to leave your comments........


Here are a few of of the comments made on the day:- 

“ A brilliant display of photography good show”

Samantha Blackburn Preston City Council Guild Team

“Well  done everybody. 

I love thinking about what the photographers might be thinking when they took the shot.

Really well exhibited. Inspired me to take photo’s again”.

Jan Robinson

Project Director, Prescap

“What a wonderful collection of photos- Very talented photographers. I liked the seagull in the sun photo best “

“Thanks Very much to everyone who organised and got involved in the group. I can see that a lot of people got a lot of different, really positive things from taking part. I’m really impressed with the end results – the exhibition and look forward to the group continuing !

Thanks “

John Surtes  

“Such wonderful creativity

Expression made possible by people who care

Courage to express made possible by brave hearts”

Susan  Riley 

Here are some pictures from the day

Blackpool!!

We enjoyed a great trip to Blackpool this week, here are some pic's of us in action

David's new camera!

Faye stalking a pigeon....... 

Watch out.......

David making sure he got the shot!

waiting for the tram back to the station....

Happy, Strong and Sad

This week we had a go at taking photographs that represented different feeling or made altered the way we feel. We chose HAPPY, SAD and STRONG. Here are our results...let us know what you think.

Happy

These flowers just looked bright and happy.

The berries and leaves gave Liza a interesting pattern to look at the more that you looked at it the more that she could see, the different colours of green and the hidden berries. The rest of the group agreed.

Josh felt that this house looked like it had lots of love and attention

This photo of David's was like a mini garden - with the Wendy House at the front. I just love the juxtaposition  position of the different objects and shapes.

Sad

This was Josh's photo and he felt that it just looked sad because it was such a mess. Although David thought that is represented an opportunity to do something with it and make it better!

Josh thought that this photo looked good but he knows how stressful doing block paving can be and how long it takes. David thought that it was sad because nothing could grow there now.

David took this photo because he thought that it looked sad all in the shadow and wanted to bring it out into the sunshine

Liza thought the twisted tree made this picture look sad - she felt sorry for it.

Strong

This branch must be strong to hold all the weight of the berries.

First Session Back in Preston

Hi, We had a good first session in the garden at Lower Bank Road. It was great to welcome some new people to the group and catch up with others. We reviewed past work and then took advantage of the sunny weather and the large garden to get used to the cameras  and start taking some photographs. Here are some of our favourites. 

Please click on comment at the bottom of the page to comment we would love to hear what you think of our photo's.

James' photograph

We liked the abstract shapes

Here are Liza's Photographs

Check out the shadows - can you tell who they are?

Gemma's photographs

We really liked the colour's in the still life and the spooky tree

Josh's Photographs

we all loved the Butterfly

Trevor's Photographs

As usual Trevor's photographs have strong lines and structure

David's Photographs

Last session in Lancaster

Faye and I had a good session this week getting to grips with the digital SLR camera, learning how to control the  shutter speed and ISO to photograph moving things, we also experimented with the different focusing modes. See the difference as Faye froze flying birds in action.

We took some things that weren't moving too!