November 2021 in this issue Contacts - who’s who in Yorkshire P.1 Report by your RO P1, P2
Yorkshire Region Contacts
Tim Flach HonFRPS talk report P1, P2
Regional Organiser: Mark Slater E: yorkshirechair@rps.org T:
Mary Crowther ARPS receives Fenton Medal P3 Updates for Members - 2022 Plans, PhotoForums and the Visual Art North Group P3A
Regional Treasurer: Geoff Blackwell FCCA ARPS Brian Crossland LRPS, Yorkshire Villages P3B E: gblackwell@fastmail.fm T: Newsletter Editor: Brian Crossland LRPS E: RPS.Yorkshire.News@gmail.com T: Regional Secretary/webmaster: David B Hall
Report by your RO
What not to miss in Yorkshire P4 Distinction successes P4
Creative Eye - develop your photographic skills P4
Dear regional members, On the 12th October we had the pleasure of welcoming Tim Flach HonFRPS to the region to give a talk, in conjunction with Sheffield Hallam University. Tim’s images are striking in their nature and have been used widely, from appearing as one of the images used on the iPhone box, through to more recently on the cover of the Sept/Oct ’21 RPS Journal, making it one of our most striking and memorable covers. It features a beautiful photograph of a bright pink ‘Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo’ taken by Tim Flach, who received his Honorary Fellowship of the Society, our highest distinction, in 2013, the same year in which he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London.
Looking at Tim's photograph of the cockatoo - and looking at so many of the photographs that we were privileged to see this evening, it would be a mistake to label Tim a ‘natural history photographer’ or a ‘wildlife photographer’. Yes, he is a photographer of animals and birds but, more so, he is a portraitist in the finest tradition of that genre. A portraitist that makes portraits of animals and birds, rather than of people. Although, that said, I have no doubt that Tim could take a fine portrait of a person; it might be a lot easier than dealing with some of the animals, but then again I suppose that depends on who the sitter is!
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