The main event during last night’s meeting was the fantastic landscape photographer, Justin Minns. No stranger to NDPS and making his third presentation to the Society, he divided his presentation into four sections; Local Interest, Making it interesting, Interesting Places and Interesting Timing.

He began with a quote from the great photographer, Jim Richardson 'If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff', and the title of his presentation was right there! Justin took us through his first section with a collection of photographs of East Anglia from beaches to windmills and bluebell woods. He talked of the seasons, the subtleties of light and atmospheric mist and his photos were laced with fine examples of these.

In his second section, Making it Interesting, Justin gave examples of motion, intentional camera shake, long focal length, slow shutter speeds and infra-red photography. All illustrated with breath-taking examples.

In Interesting Places he took us to Yosemite, The Canadian Rockies, Slovakia and Madeira, fabulous locations and fabulous photos. Finally he talked on Interesting Timing, being at the right place at the right time, how frost make things interesting and snow transforms a landscape. How fog does something similar and how the Blue Hour (only 20 minutes!) works.

Justin ended with a John Constable quote 'I never saw an ugly thing in my life; for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful'. A point of view that Justin shares. These were outstanding examples of landscape photography not only technically brilliant but also beautiful and awe inspiring.

Many thanks Justin for a spellbinding evening.

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