Slide 1 INGATESTONE & FRYERNING ANGLING CLUB AGM: 23 MARCH 2016 ROBERT W FLETCHER PHOTOGRAPHY
Ingatestone & Fryerning Angling Club AGM, 23 March 2016: R W Fletcher photographic contribution (x 5 prints) and notes
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06 April 2015: Lower Hall Lake, Ingatestone Hall, Ingatestone, Essex. (Canon PowerShot SX110IS, Auto setting)
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“The Lake Managers” Print: HP Officejet 6700 Premium printer/Tesco Premium photo heavyweight glossy inkjet paper A4/250gsm Photo Quality. MS Office Word 2007 Format/Picture Tools Recolor/Grayscale Color Mode. Dave Smith and Mick Hone taken just after a morning’s work before the ritual burger/bap/tea. A print influenced by the black and white prints of James Ravilious (1939-1999) who was famous for his series of photos of North Devon farming communities.
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21 April 2015: Lower Hall Lake, Ingatestone Hall, Ingatestone, Essex. (Canon PowerShot SX110IS, Auto setting) “Coot Club” Print: HP Officejet 6700 Premium printer/Tesco Premium photo heavyweight glossy inkjet paper A4/250gsm Photo Quality. The title is a homage to the children's’ book by Arthur Ransome, who was a celebrated angler and writer on angling (I recommend his stories published by OUP under the title Rod and Line, and the DVDs of the Channel Four series with Michael Hordern which you can still buy). The coots nested on the field side of the lake but after a short time the eggs appeared to have vanished, perhaps due to an adventurous fox. However, as of the first week of February 2016, this same pair of birds are still on the water and will hopefully nest again.
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23 May 2015: Green Street Lake, Green Street, Fryerning, Ingatestone, Essex. (Canon PowerShot SX110IS, Auto setting)
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“Liam (Green Street)” Print: HP Officejet 6700 Premium printer/Tesco Premium photo heavyweight glossy inkjet paper A4/250gsm Photo Quality. MS Office Word 2007 Format/Picture Tools Recolor/ Dark Variations Accent color 3 Dark Color Mode.
This was Liam from Brightlingsea 4 Youth fishing in the EBGC match in May 2015. As he was the only angler on the day perhaps we should call it “The Essex Boy and No-Girls Clubs Angling Championships”! He had actually just lost a good carp on the pole as the ripples on the surface show and I was getting ready to snap the netting.
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06 September 2015: River Yare, Buckenham Yacht Club, Beauchamp Arms PH, Ferry Road, Langley, Nr. Norwich, Norfolk. (Canon PowerShot SX110IS, Auto setting)
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“Liberté in Red” Print: HP Officejet 6700 Premium printer/Tesco Premium photo heavyweight glossy inkjet paper A4/250gsm Photo Quality. MS Office Word 2007 Format/Picture Tools Recolor/ Dark Variations Accent color 2 Dark Color Mode. The second year running I fished downstream of the pub and passed this beautifully restored old Dutch barge again and took some photos of it. The name seems quite apt for what we go down to the Yare for and the red tint have the print a touch of the revolutionary.
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06 April 2015: Lower Hall Lake, Ingatestone Hall, Ingatestone, Essex. (Canon PowerShot SX110IS, Auto setting)
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“Hellfire” Print: HP Officejet 6700 Premium printer/Tesco Premium photo heavyweight glossy inkjet paper A4/250gsm Photo Quality. MS Office Word 2007 Format/Picture Tools Recolor/ Color Mode Black and White. Experimenting with the pure black and white filter got this effect which turned the wind-blown bonfire flame into a white gash seeming to grow from out of Mick Hone’s bending body. The title suggests that the print brought back 1968 memories of Arthur Brown on Top of the Pops with his hit single “Fire” from his strange album which came out at that time. Also, as ITV were filming Jekyll and Hyde around Ingatestone Hall at this time the print seems fitting in its demonic layout.
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Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) setting of the Hardy poem, both for baritone and piano and baritone and orchestra (The Lake Managers).
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Peter Warlock (1894-1930) setting of W B Yeats for tenor and string quartet (Coot Club).
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(Warlock cont...)
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Arthur Brown (b1942) from the album The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968). (Hellfire). (Other music chosen for prints: George Butterworth (1885-1916) A Shropshire Lad – Rhapsody for Orchestra for Liam (Green Street), and R Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 and No. 2, for orchestra for LibertÊ in Red (The first one is better known and both use Norfolk folk songs collected by VW).