Innholdsfortegnelse for 13/12/2022 i Amateur Photographer

All Eyes Speak One Language, by David Lloyd. Foreword by Virginia McKenna, essays by David Lloyd and Keith Wilson £65, Envisage Books, hardback, 148 pages, ISBN: 9780993019364 Featuring stunning colour and black & white fine art prints, this new book by highly acclaimed wildlife photographer David Lloyd includes some of his award-winning images. David’s first book, As Long As There Are Animals, focused on the iconic wildlife of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem in Kenya and Tanzania. This time, eight years on, David has extended his coverage to the mountains of Uganda to photograph gorillas and to the forests of India for the majestic Bengal tiger. The foreword is written by Virginia McKenna, co-founder and trustee of the Born Free Foundation. To coincide with the book launch, an exhibition at London’s Gallery@oxo…

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Lenses Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom in on distant subjects, while macro lenses enable close-ups of small objects. Large-aperture lenses allow you to isolate subjects against blurred backgrounds, or shoot in low light without having to raise the ISO too high. Meanwhile, all-in-one superzooms cover a wide range of subjects, but usually with rather lower optical quality. Lens mounts On the whole, each manufacturer uses its own proprietary lens mount. Notable exceptions are Micro Four Thirds, shared by Olympus and Panasonic, and the full-frame L-mount that’s used by Leica, Panasonic and Sigma.…

Wildlife POTY: power to the people VOTING is now open for the People’s Choice Award in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The 25-image shortlist was chosen from 38,575 entries across 93 countries and includes pictures as diverse as a pregnant pygmy seahorse by Nicholas More, a polar bear cub basking in a sea of flowers and Michał Michlewicz’s project on the impact of pet cats on local wildlife. As well as being able to vote on the museum’s website, you can pick your favourite images via interactive screens located inside the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in central London. The top five images will be announced on 9 February 2023 and shown online, joining the winners of the 58th competition announced…

‘Today I think the split between black and white in South Africa is irreconcilable. The whites are certain that it is our heart’s desire to be integrated into their society as social and economic equals, but they are wrong. The cruelty of apartheid – separateness – has infected us as well as them: We believe as fervently as they that there should be as little contact between the races as may be possible. For only by a separation more absolute than the most ardent racist could wish does there seem to be a chance of freedom from the suffering and oppression that living beside white men inflicts upon us.’ These were Ernest Cole’s opening lines for his book House Of Bondage when it was first published in 1967. They couldn’t…

When was the club founded? H2 Photographic Society is a relatively new club with an interesting history! Its lineage can be traced back to the 1940s with smaller clubs based in villages and towns around East Hertfordshire and West Essex. They eventually were brought together under one name, Harlow Photographic Society, which became really established in the late 1980s by Malcolm Tinn, an ex-president of the EAF and still, we are proud to say, both an active member of H2 PS and its lifetime president! HPS became H2 in spring of 2019 when it relocated to the Hertfordshire village of Much Hadham. H2 signifies that it serves both Harlow and Much and Little Hadham. What does your club offer new members? Friendship and a listening ear – we don’t have…

● £89 ● www.manfrotto.com/uk-en At a glance ● 3/8in base socket ● 1/4in head screw with 3/8in adapter ● Weight 220g ● 20kg max load IF YOU regularly use a tripod, chances are you’ll have a favourite head for everyday use, and keep it pretty much permanently fixed in place. To a degree, this reflects the fact that certain types of head are ideal for particular purposes; for example, ball heads for landscapes, geared heads for architecture, and fluid pan/tilt heads for video. But even if your work would be made easier by switching between types, swapping them over can be a pain. While the standard 3/8in screw thread does a great job of fixing things together, it’s not exactly a speedy solution. The strangely named Manfrotto Move Quick Release…

The winning photographs from this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year competition (sponsored by CIWEM, WaterBear, Nikon and Arup), are at once beautiful and devastating. Taking home the coveted overall prize is Mehdi Mohebi Pour for his image ‘The Bitter Death of Birds’. Taken in 2021, it shows birds which have died in the Miankaleh Lagoon in Iran, due to lack of water and contamination. Environmental workers can be seen collecting the birds’ bodies to prevent the spread of disease. Young Environmental Photographer of the Year is Fayz Khan for his shot ‘Beautiful But Hostile Colours On Earth’. It depicts lesser flamingos flying over Lake Magadi and Lake Natron in Kenya. These two lakes were once a single freshwater lake, but today are highly concentrated salt pans, which are toxic…

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