SPECTRUM MAGAZINE

NEW MEMBERS

 

With a growing number of new members to our society, it’s a bit of a challenge to try and remember everyone..  To help members, I am introducing this new feature to Spectrum – ‘Getting to know new members’

 

Every few weeks I will introduce a new member with a little bit about them and their photograph. 

 

 

 

New member’s Brett (l) and wife, Libet Wilkie have been living in Harpenden for a year now. Brett first got interested in photography while messing around in the dark rooms at University, while Californian, Libet’s interest started when she took pictures in High School and later at a Commercial Art College.  Both of them most enjoy taking pictures of wild animals.

 

 

 

 

Ros Johnson who lives in St Albans, told me she likes taking pictures that enable her to explore space and time, so it will be interesting to see her pictures.

 

 She gained a diploma in Fine Arts which began her interest in photography.

 

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Featured member

by Maureen Dobkin

 

 

 

SARAH CODY

 

 

HPS Secretary, Sarah Cody, is a woman with winning ways.  Last season she came second in the annual colour prints competition, joint second in projected digital images and took home the brand new trophy introduced this year for the public’s favourite photograph in our exhibition.

 

Sarah grew up in a photography-friendly home.  Her late father, Ken Andrews, was a keen photographer and in fact used to belong to HPS himself until 1982.

 

What surprised me most was how recently Sarah took up photography in a serious way.  And it happened almost by accident.

 

In 2004 Sarah and her long-term partner, Andrew Scoggins, our external events secretary, were on holiday in California.  Finding herself on her own on a deserted beach she took a picture of waves breaking over a rock which then became the public’s favourite photograph in the 2005 exhibition.

 

 Since then her interest has grown.

 

Sarah, 50, has two daughters by her previous marriage, Katy, 20 and Louisa, 16.  Her present digital camera is a Canon 20D and her favourite subjects are moving things and macro (remember her lemon slices in lemonade?).  She works as a secretary for a construction consultancy and enjoys taking pictures of colleagues playing cricket and football.   

 

One of her favourite photographic memories is of a visit to Welney in Norfolk.  They feed the swans there three times a day and the birds flock in from the surrounding fields. 

 

Here’s some of Sarah’s favourite pictures

 

             

        Boats at Southend                                    Fizzy Cherries                                            Day of Rest 

 

                       

                        Modern Living                                                                 Hebridean Beech

 

                                                                                    Skipping