This week's speaker at the camera club in St. Florence Village Hall was David Lingham FRPS with a talk entitled 'Totally In the Dark.' Unusually in these days of digital photography, he still works with film, and takes black and white pictures, and produces his images in the darkroom. What's more, he uses infrared film, and achieves very unusual effects, by his printing methods, sometimes using the 'lith' process. He is particularly interested in the tones and shapes that make the picture, often reducing the image to the very minimum of content. Starting with some of his early work, he showed the many different locations, from Pembrokeshire, Solva, Abereiddy, and Broadhaven, in particular, to Blaenavon, and on to Dungeness, using early morning mist, fog and sea fret to create the feeling and atmosphere of the place. He likes to achieve texture, shape and form with his pictures. In the selection of pictures, he included some of the photographs which he had submitted among the 20 prints which gave him his Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society award. The audience was delighted to be able to have a close-up view of the prints, while enjoying their refreshments, and in the second half, David showed some of his latest work. He encouraged the audience to ask questions, and a lively discussion took place with members who were very interested to find out how the effects are achieved. Everyone agreed that it was a very interesting evening. The next meeting will be the judging of the second open competiton on December 7, with judge Ian Ledgard LRPS, AWPF, PSAI. Everyone is welcome. Further details are available on the website http://www.tenby-camera-club.co.uk">www.tenby-camera-club.co.uk.
