Virtual Meeting, Members A.v. Night - Tuesday 19th January 2021.
On Tuesday 19th January 2021, Morpeth Camera Clubs’ Virtual meeting took the form of a members evening,
where members had been invited to show Audio Visual presentations they had prepared. Av’s are a combination
of a slide show and music.
Paul Appleby opened with his Av entitled Swan Lake, with shots of swans on Bolam Lake. Close in photography
with detailed water droplets, swans taking off in pairs in perfect synchronicity and individuals landing by firstly
walking on water, before serenely gliding across the lake. His second Av, entitled Observations Italian Style, had
colourful images of Italian street life, café culture, wall art, shutters and washing lines, old doorways, ice cream
parlours and pasta shops, and ended with a lovely Florence city scape.
Davy Bolam followed on with his Av on Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens entitled ‘Is it Art’. We enjoyed images of
contemporary art amid lovely gardens, facial statuary in woodland, flowers and creepers planted to form natural
patterns, coiled rope tree adornments, mosaic water ewers, leaping stone squirrels, & colourful wooden planking,
all set to calming music.
Sue Dawson came next with From Craster to Newton with images of smoke houses, red lifebuoys, colourful floats,
fishing boats at low tide, Dunstanburgh Castle from Craster harbour, yellow gorse and seaweed, which captured
the area perfectly. She followed on with a short, fast moving Av of the Morpeth statue of Emily Wilding Davison,
taken from different angles and also alternative detailed shots.
Stephanie Robson followed with an Av depicting the journey of a cameras SD card, from camera to card reader
then downloaded onto a computer, where a series of colourful images appeared. The SD card is then returned
to the camera where the images are deleted, ready for the next photo shoot.
Next on was John Willmore with an Av depicting Paris in the Autumn. With mainly monochrome images, we
enjoyed seeing street life, pedestrians strolling in park land, cyclists and musicians. We saw people relaxing by
the Seine, walking past classic Parisian architecture, conversing and embracing, and finally colourful night scenes
of café life and abstract views of street furniture and posters. John continued with his Av on the miner’s gala in
Durham. There were musicians, crowds of spectators, marchers with flags, and banners all with a statement to
make; an Av depicting a sense of celebration.
Glyn Trueman’s documental Av, followed, with facts relating to sea birds, including the Black Headed Gull and
Herring Gull. With the Common Guillemot, he explained the family ties it to the puffin and razorbill; it described
their habitat, nesting, gestation period, behaviour patterns and diet. We enjoyed watching youngster hatching,
leaving the nest and their first flight to their independence. Glyn also showed an Av illustrating his experiments
with droplets of milk when aimed over a glass of milk. On landing, the droplets provided interesting ‘explosions’
of patterns, of whirlpools, mushrooms, coronet shapes, exotic trees, umbrellas, and shapes of the female form.
To conclude the evening Davy Bolam revealed the results of his annual Christmas Quiz. Twenty four images,
which he had taken throughout the year within a 20 mile radius of Morpeth, were loaded onto the club website
on Christmas Day and members were invited to identify the main subject and locations of each. Memorials, a
bandstand, an old water pump, statuary and sculpture, castle ruins, a water tower and clock tower were all
included in the quiz. There were 3,422 views on the website, not only from club members but from further
afield and the overall winner this year was Sue Dawson.
Roseanne Robinson, Joint Vice Chair, thanked everyone for their input adding that it had been enjoyable to
view a wide variety of subject matter in the A.v. presentations shown during the evening.
Steph.
where members had been invited to show Audio Visual presentations they had prepared. Av’s are a combination
of a slide show and music.
Paul Appleby opened with his Av entitled Swan Lake, with shots of swans on Bolam Lake. Close in photography
with detailed water droplets, swans taking off in pairs in perfect synchronicity and individuals landing by firstly
walking on water, before serenely gliding across the lake. His second Av, entitled Observations Italian Style, had
colourful images of Italian street life, café culture, wall art, shutters and washing lines, old doorways, ice cream
parlours and pasta shops, and ended with a lovely Florence city scape.
Davy Bolam followed on with his Av on Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens entitled ‘Is it Art’. We enjoyed images of
contemporary art amid lovely gardens, facial statuary in woodland, flowers and creepers planted to form natural
patterns, coiled rope tree adornments, mosaic water ewers, leaping stone squirrels, & colourful wooden planking,
all set to calming music.
Sue Dawson came next with From Craster to Newton with images of smoke houses, red lifebuoys, colourful floats,
fishing boats at low tide, Dunstanburgh Castle from Craster harbour, yellow gorse and seaweed, which captured
the area perfectly. She followed on with a short, fast moving Av of the Morpeth statue of Emily Wilding Davison,
taken from different angles and also alternative detailed shots.
Stephanie Robson followed with an Av depicting the journey of a cameras SD card, from camera to card reader
then downloaded onto a computer, where a series of colourful images appeared. The SD card is then returned
to the camera where the images are deleted, ready for the next photo shoot.
Next on was John Willmore with an Av depicting Paris in the Autumn. With mainly monochrome images, we
enjoyed seeing street life, pedestrians strolling in park land, cyclists and musicians. We saw people relaxing by
the Seine, walking past classic Parisian architecture, conversing and embracing, and finally colourful night scenes
of café life and abstract views of street furniture and posters. John continued with his Av on the miner’s gala in
Durham. There were musicians, crowds of spectators, marchers with flags, and banners all with a statement to
make; an Av depicting a sense of celebration.
Glyn Trueman’s documental Av, followed, with facts relating to sea birds, including the Black Headed Gull and
Herring Gull. With the Common Guillemot, he explained the family ties it to the puffin and razorbill; it described
their habitat, nesting, gestation period, behaviour patterns and diet. We enjoyed watching youngster hatching,
leaving the nest and their first flight to their independence. Glyn also showed an Av illustrating his experiments
with droplets of milk when aimed over a glass of milk. On landing, the droplets provided interesting ‘explosions’
of patterns, of whirlpools, mushrooms, coronet shapes, exotic trees, umbrellas, and shapes of the female form.
To conclude the evening Davy Bolam revealed the results of his annual Christmas Quiz. Twenty four images,
which he had taken throughout the year within a 20 mile radius of Morpeth, were loaded onto the club website
on Christmas Day and members were invited to identify the main subject and locations of each. Memorials, a
bandstand, an old water pump, statuary and sculpture, castle ruins, a water tower and clock tower were all
included in the quiz. There were 3,422 views on the website, not only from club members but from further
afield and the overall winner this year was Sue Dawson.
Roseanne Robinson, Joint Vice Chair, thanked everyone for their input adding that it had been enjoyable to
view a wide variety of subject matter in the A.v. presentations shown during the evening.
Steph.