Heptonstall a tiny village just outside Hebden Bridge has roads of original stone setts, cottages of weavers and two churches. The older church yard has grave stones going back to the 1600’s.
One of which is of ‘King’ David Hartley who was the founder of the Cragg Coiners and I was surprised to see coins placed on his grave stone.
There were many photo opportunities during the visit on a pleasant afternoon/evening and met up with other members of the club.
42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything*, it is also the high score achieved by Mike Hey in this week’s challenge: “Canal Walk” with his high impact, monochrome image of the canal side shown below.
In second place was Chris Rogers with a score of 17 achieved with a picture of the Worsley Delph Sculpture in Salford depicting a “crane of a curious construction” used to lift the “starvationer” barges whose outlines are shown in the water – in case you were wondering.
Geoff Brierly’s image came third with a close up, in the soft evening light, of one of the swing beams of the recently restored lock 23E in the centre of Slaithwaite. (The canal was reopened in 2001)
36 members saw 22 photographs taken on the 14th. August as the club held its first outdoor meeting in over a year in Slaithwaite with a walk along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
Insights and image critiques were given by Sue Gibson, Brian Eastwood and James Gibson.
Well done! to the high scorers and thanks to all those who uploaded their images for review.
*. Deep Thought - 1978
In a most thought provoking presentation Caroline threw out the Rule Book and taught us how to view images, interpret them and make choices about what and how we take our subjects. By using examples of well-known photographs and less well-known photographers she illustrated ways in which an image can draw the eye of the viewer to a subject, emotion or point of view using techniques such as simplicity, positioning of key elements, cropping, grouping, separation, framing and visual weight of the components. We learnt about psychological theory, and along the way found out about photographers who had influenced Caroline’s own photographic efforts. Caroline left us much to think about as we select our own image files and make choices about which elements are important within them. Here are some examples of Caroline’s own photographs which illustrate techniques that she had put to the test.
