Tuesday 15th April 2025
This week at ImageZ our members had the chance to tell their own photographic story using five images to aid their presentation. Thirteen members came forward and their efforts provided the audience with an interesting, funny, and delightful evening.
Neil Tingle
We began with Neil who some years ago had been a sports photographer working mostly on football photography.
Neil explained that his photographs this evening show moments of celebration. He believed that with photography there is of course your craft and professionalism but here are also moments of luck like being in the right place at the right time. He went on to show us terrific images of Championship football over a number of years.
Alun Morgan
Alun explained he had begun his photographic journey as a professional photographer in the seventies on cruise ships and had a love of photographing people. This he said was fun and a wonderful experience.
In the last ten years he had worked on street photography. He presented five excellent images which he said were taken within half an hour and he explained technically how he worked.
Mike Ward
Mike shared five amazing images taken on an early trip to Moscow with his school in nineteen sixty-three.
His five photos featured scenes from Moscow celebrations on May First when the Russian paraded military strength, one image features President Khrushchev and Fidel Castro.
Derek Green
Derek entertained us with tales of a haunted house and a ghost that he put into many eerie photographs but was not seen by the judges until his final image which scored very well.
David Cobb
David has travelled to many places in during his career including North Korea and Tibet. His remarkably interesting images showed us pictures of a strange game of Polo played between rival Tibetan teams which entailed both team wrestling the goat from each other and then taking it to the other teams’ goal. Also a north Korean Basket ball team of school boys almost identical in their team colours. The images were colourful and had powerful stories behind them.
Mike Chester
Mike’s presentation showed his journey through photography from rolls of film to digital. Mike talked of his experiences in the Navy and how his photography of the Falklands ships were popular amongst the men serving on the ships. Again, he gave a very amusing talk.
Martin Hommel
Shared his love of wildlife and showed us engaging images of a Sloth taken in Costa Rica and Puffins taken on Skomer Island.
Stuart Craig
Stuart took us through his journey with cameras and explained why certain cameras are his favourites. His images included Weddings he had worked on, Wildlife,Travel and working with models which he enjoys.
Paul Mee
Entertained us with his story of going for a CPAG. Credit He has some images the judges didn’t like but achieved his panel and got there in the end. This was a true journey through photography.
Cathy Rose
Cathy explained her love of Wildlife she has had since her child hood and presented lovely wildlife images. She told us of her struggle to entice the Hummingbird Moth to her garden and her eventual capture of it when she least expected it.
Andrew Nobbs by Chris Andrews
Showed us five images of his belonging to his Dad, Andrew Nobbs who was unable to make the meeting this evening. They included a fox, and frogs from his pond, and Chris explained that Andrew had been a farmer and had a love of old farm vehicles which he liked to photograph.
Chris Andrews
Chris went on to show us his own five Images which were taken in London when he worked there. Chris showed a picture taken of a moving train in the underground and told us that he began to work using long exposures on his photographs. Chris has a love of Architectural images and showed us one of his Images of the Shard which had won ‘Photographs of London 24’ a country-wide competition.
Brian Worley
Took us through his photography from the early days photographing models and motorsports on film before working for Canon. His two loves in photography are motor sports and portraits and he showed us a young image of Emma when she started her career eleven years ago. Brian was introduced to Emma by a former club member for Emma’s first model shoot. Emma has subsequently modelled for the club many times over the years. Brian included flying rally cars captured in Finland
Selection of images from members stories
Thank you to all who presented on this evening.
The evening was thoroughly entertaining and we look forward to a follow up evening when we discover more about our colleagues photography and stories.
Blog post written by Carol Haines
It was a brilliant evening, and every speaker was very entertaining. Well done all.