by Lorne Sulcas, APSSA – wildlife photography (digital), APSSA – wildlife photography (slide) “leopard portrait” ©Lorne Sulcas (click to increase size) My now thirty-something (apologies, neither maths nor memory are my strong suits) year old love affair with wildlife photography was born whilst working for close on a decade as a game ranger-guide in the […]
Diptychs and Triptychs
Diptychs and triptychs are a form of narrative representation and signification that has long been used in the history of art. Triptychs typically originate from altarpieces and icons where you have a large central panel with the most important component and two panels on either side that, when folded over, combine their widths to cover […]
Sharp Focus May 2023
MESSAGE FROM THE STAND-IN Hi, All What with Geoff and Ceridwyn galivanting all over the land of drizzle and pubs, it’s fallen on me to entertain you with my maunderings. Thanks to all those who could make the earlier Zoom session at our last monthly meeting – and apologies for the short notice; unfortunately with […]
Sharp Focus March / April 2023
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Greetings, everyone In two weeks time Ceridwyn and I will be going on holiday to England for five weeks. Two weeks of that time will be spent with family, but the other three weeks we will be on our own, moving from B&B to B&B from the Lake District down the […]
Sharp Focus February 2023
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Greetings, everyone In my February article I wrote that those who had joined us for the ‘Beach’ outing were going to meet together on Saturday, 18th to have some wine and snacks and to look at a selection of our images and choose what we thought were the best individual images, […]
Sharp Focus January 2023
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Greetings, everyone On Saturday, 4th February, seven of our members met at Fish Hoek beach to try to capture the perfect ‘Beach’ photo that everyone would ‘oooh’ and ‘arrr’ over when it was shown at our next club meeting on the 27th. I found it fascinating watching the different styles our […]
FHPS to host interclub in 2021
This year it is FHPS’ turn to host the annual Western Cape Interclub Competition. This was hosted last year by Durbanville Fotografieklub who were highly successful in managing the event under very trying circumstances (enter The Dreaded Lurgi). It is scheduled to take place on Friday 29 October and the good news is that it […]