An Evening with John & Katie Garner
John confessed that he had only been a photographer for about four years- since he joined the Society following a talk by Tony Redford to a Probus group of which John was a member. His first meeting had been a Digital evening at the Folk Centre where Bill Chadband had tried to frighten him with technicalities about cameras. When this hadn’t succeeded, Joyce Streets had had a go, demanding to know if John was a photographer. Having passed both tests John had thought it safe to bring along his wife Katie.
In their introductory sequence John listed the various cameras he had owned, showing results obtained with each one. His first digital camera was a Nikon with 2Mpixels. He later acquired an 8Mpixel Minolta A200 with a 28-200mm equivalent zoom. In 2008 he advanced to a 10Mp Canon 40D. Katie’s first “real” camera was an 8Mp Ricoh Caplio also with 28-200mm zoom, but more recently she had acquired a 12Mp Canon 450D. We saw a variety of images taken with each camera, ranging from a Tatton Park Cockeral, Birds, Butterflies, Cars, Flower heads and more recent images from Victoria Baths, Tatton Park Car show and Poynton Shows.
They had acquired a Canon Pro 9000 printer, PhotoShop CS2, Pictures to Exe, and the Audacity Sound program and had produced for us a variety of P2Exe presentations. The first, based upon the Crich Museum 40’s weekend included opening images taken by John’s father, and a shot of a Daily Mirror front page dated May 4th 1945.
After the break John and Katie presented several P2E sequences, all with accompanying music, ranging from Pompei, Sorento, a classic car show at Tatton, to a trip to Venice, Verona and Lake Garda (a taster for the Club trip to Venice next year).
Martin Currie proposed a vote of thanks. He felt that the presentations had highlighted what he thought was best about camera clubs – the friendly atmosphere and the shared experiences from which we all benefitted . He had enjoyed the whole evening, perhaps singling out the Pompei sequence as his favourite. He thanked John and Katie for another good Club evening, and the audience responded with applause.