Tonight’s talk covers a journey made from 10th January to 6th February 2020 just before the pandemic shut down the world. “..Three of us travelled - my wife, a friend and I. We flew into Delhi for Northern India and then flew south to Bengaluru (Bangalore) for the south before returning from Kochi (Cochin). In each area we had a car and driver to travel in..”
Part 1 - The “Golden Triangle” and Ranthambore National Park
The “Golden Triangle of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur were the main cities of our northern journey with a detour to Ranthambore in the hope of seeing the elusive tiger. India in general and the north in particular has many World Heritage sites and we visited some of them as we moved around.
Part 2 - Karnataka and Kerala
While the north was dusty (and cold), the tropical states of India are warmer and much more lush. The two major centres on our journey were Mysore and Kochi/Cochin, but much of our time was spent in greener surroundings including the Western Ghats, the Backwaters and finishing with a few days on the beach south of Cochin.
TONIGHT’S MEETING IS ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE VIA ZOOM - The link for members of the Society will be sent out in the normal way.
Images are the copyright of Alan Cameron ARPS and are being shown with his permission
About Alan Cameron ARPS
In 1969 when I was 17 my father gave me a camera - a Zeiss Ikon Contina with a 45mm f2.8 - f22 lens. Everything had to be manually set, aperture, shutter speed and distance. It had no meter and no rangefinder and the shutter speed ranged from 1s to 1/300s. I was hooked.
At university I acquired a Praktica L SLR with a wonderful 50mm f1.8 Zeiss Pancolor lens. During my PhD years I learned darkroom methods in order to print images taken using photographic plates in an electron microscope.
In 1978 we moved to Nigeria and I bought a Canon AE-1 and 50mm lens. I now use a Canon EOS-R with a EOS M5 as backup. It is amazing that I've moved from using ISO 25 Kodachrome to get acceptable results to a point where the EOS-R will produce excellent images at ISO12800. The best way to describe me is as a magpie photographer. Much of my photography is done within a day's journey of home, and I adore travel too. Going around the world for work or pleasure has led to so many opportunities to capture places, people, cites, landscapes, seascapes and wildlife in all its forms.
Over the years I've been active in camera clubs both in the Midlands where we lived for many years and then in the Blackpool area where we live now. I have been Chair of three clubs locally and for a number of years I've been a member of Poulton-le-Fylde Photographic Society where I’m still chair.
I joined the Royal Photographic Society in the 2001, achieved my LRPS in the 2000s and, finally, my ARPS in Documentary Photography in March this year.
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