The speaker last Friday at Tenby and District Arts Club was Harry Gardiner, photographer, artist and local resident for 14 years.

He revealed that he first became interested in photography when in infants school - cutting out a photo from the Picture Post to stick in his exercise book. He holidayed all over Wales when selecting his new location, and chose Tenby as the best of them all!

He has taken a multitude of photographs since arriving and showed a selection of them at the Arts Club.

Harry Gardiner has embraced the digital age in photography, and described how he takes photographs, works with them on his computer, experimenting to find unusual images, and printing them out himself, both on photographic paper and on canvas.

All the photographs he showed were of Tenby, from dogs in the wet sand on South Beach to boats on the harbour, from a statue outside the Coastguard House on Castle Hill to a manikin in a boot outside W.H. Smith, from the Boxing Day swim to a colony of snails on the ramps going down to South Beach, from a rainy August Bank Holiday to poppies on Castle Hill.

Many of the photographs were digitally enhanced. A silhouette of trees on Slippery Back was actually two photographs, as were several photographs of reflections. Harry also created panoramas of the harbour from six or seven photographs. He showed photographs where the colours were merged but the lines remained, giving emphasis to the shapes and colours, and others where there were no tones at all, but just a line image.

Not only a photographer, Harry showed us paintings inspired by his photographs - including Goscar Rock waking up into a dinosaur, a helicopter that became an alien spaceship attacking Croft Court, and a lighthouse which was an amalgamation of many actual ones.

Lots of people had a closer look at the paintings and photographs during coffee, and Harry kindly donated half of the proceeds of his sales on the night to the Arts Club. It was a fascinating insight into the brave new world of digital photography.

Tonight (Friday), the Arts Club hosts a musical evening from the Claret Duo, giving a diverse and eclectic mix of folk and roots music from the UK and Europe - not to be missed! Only £2 for members and £4 for non-members, including light refreshments, starting at 7.30 at St. Johns Hall, Warren Street. See you there!