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Our speaker on 26th September was George Ledger. Geoge had travelled from Consett from where he works as a Freelance Sports Photographer. He covers major sporting events and was previously the Wildlife Trust "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" as well as "International Sports Photographer, Corporate and People Photographer". His photographs have been published in numerous publications including The Times, The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Sun, BBC Wildlife Magazine and BBC online. George's sports interests and photographs range from the Olympic Games to Premier League Football to local rugby and cricket events in Durham and Consett.    George had an engaging, relaxed and amusing style of presentation. In addition to viewing his excellent images and learning about his photography techniques, we also enjoyed questioning him about the role of the professional sports photographer. We learned that it is a highly pressurised and competitive profession. The sports photographer, with his or her competing photographers nearby, has to marshal a range of photographic equipment and a laptop in all types of weather and environments, capture the useable images which are most in demand (involving famous sports people and particular actions) in a split second and to quickly send them, together with a range of required information such as the names of everybody whose faces feature in the photographs, to the central agencies who decide whether they want to use them. As we discussed, it is not a relaxed or fun environment, but the top sports photographers do get a "real buzz" from their work.
Our members thanked George and agreed that it had been an enjoyable, interesting and informative evening. Ray Barnes CCC Programme Secretary
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Members Night with Saviours Haven Sanctuary. Last night was the first Members evening with a mixture of Talk from Steve Lucock about his sanctuary and some practical photography, and of course a bit of a catch up.       So we got the room set up with three “sets” for the creatures, Harpo the Green Winged Macaw, Sapphire the Barn Owl, Eugene the African Pygmy Hedgehog and of course Zante the Fox. Due to guidelines Zante was kept out of sight until we had an opportunity to photography the animals. Not forgetting the lovely Carla Roberts who turned up to model for us with Zante.       The first hour was spent with Macaw, Barn owl and Hedgehog and I think all members got a chance to take a variety of images and get help (if needed) from other members. Then Steve put the animals away and brought out Zante to pose with members and Carla.          Many thanks to Steve for his hard work and interesting information.
Colin Livingstone Chris (Our President) gave us a talk and presenting some stunning photo's from around the Austrian Alps. |
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