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“Expressing Feelings” was the title put forward to the LADCC members in this month’s competition. Feelings are often difficult to talk about so the descriptive brief for this month’s competition once again challenged many of our members. Sadly, the number of entries was fewer than normal, due to it being holiday time for many. However, those that did enter the competition certainly produced some superb photos!

 

The competition title did raise some more complex issues though, as the top two photos were beautiful pictures of young children and, unfortunately, we are unable to publish the winning photo as the parent did not give permission for this. An August Channel 4 UK news item, amongst many others, recently highlighted problems of putting young children’s photographs online, and the apparent ease with which online sexual predators can produce awful AI enhanced images of these children. According to this recent article sadly some 8000 cases were reported to the National Child Agency (NCA) last year alone.

 

Our camera club are very aware of the intrusion of privacy when taking photographs of children and, indeed, any person and are very careful to get the appropriate permission to use, and publish, the photo taken of them. Members carry with them a letter of explanation, in both English and Spanish, so that we can ask members of the public whether they have any issues with our taking, and using, their photo.

 

As to this month’s competition, Sally Gasston took the honors with her two photos, which finished first and third. The winning photo ‘Mischief in her Eyes’ was a delightful photo of her granddaughter. Sally said the reason she so liked her winning image was that it wasn’t posed and was a spur of the moment shot of her six-year-old granddaughter who just approached the camera with ‘mischief in her eyes’!

 

In second place was Julian Pering’s delightful shot ‘Concentration’ and the photo definitely shows that! Julian advised that this was his great-granddaughter’s attempt to stand on her own. Great shot and what great effort shown!

 

 

In Sally’s third placed photo, she managed to capture two of her fellow pádel players celebrating after the team’s game, earlier in the day, in the finals in Valencia. Although they didn’t win, to get to Valencia was a great achievement and the whole team celebrated that evening. Using her iPhone, Sally captured another unposed, spur of the moment shot, which definitely shows their happiness!

 

 

Whilst a hot August continues, the club’s regular meetings are still on hold but will resume in September. In the meantime, the club’s members have been asked to look at photography’s ‘Golden Hour’ for the next monthly competition!

 

This popular camera club usually meets twice a month, at the Las Claras Centre in Los Alcázares, on the first Tuesday of every month and, often, an outing towards the end of the month, where the group gets together to collectively work on the topic for the monthly competition. With modern day technology we can all keep in contact for training sessions, sharing knowledge etc via ‘group chats’. We are interested in hearing from anyone who would like to join us when the opportunity arises. If you would like more information about the Club please do not hesitate to look at our website,

www.ladcc.es, or email us at informationladcc@gmail.com.