Northumberland Camera Club

Adding something dynamic to a landscape, or applying creative tricks, such as extending the shutter time, make a real difference.

David Tanner’s snow plough and Mick Donnelly’s spinning turbine during Storm Dylan are excellent examples.

Tony Robson’s fantastic long exposure of a waterfall near South Middleton also showed movement.

Seemingly moving more slowly across the sky, the moon has featured heavily in the club’s photos over the last few weeks. I’ve lost count of photographers practising their telephoto skills.

Stan Wilcox did some amazing work with his surreal image of him holding the moon. Meanwhile, David Jenkins’ picture of the moon reflected in the mouth of the River Coquet as it rose over Amble Harbour on New Year’s Day was really well processed, with its gentle adjustments and muted tones.

Jane Langston also played with reflections by flipping her image upside down to great effect, and Christopher Miller’s well composed image of the High Level Bridge in Newcastle also caught the reflection of a pedestrian.

I shoot a lot of portraits for a living and it’s great to see people’s faces in the club’s gallery.

Smile, by Claire Wallace-Watson, stood out as it captured the happy personality of her husband in the context of a celebratory event.

Wonderful work from everyone who has contributed. As always, I am so sorry I cannot include them all.

The club is growing daily with, at the time of writing, 660 members and so many of them active participants.

Lots are taking up our year-long challenge, and it’s not too late to start. This week’s words are ‘Evening’ and ‘Circle’, with January’s theme being Depth of Field.

Everyone is welcome to join Northumberland Camera Club.

Post images to http://bit.ly/PicNland and tag them #PicNorthumberland, giving some background about your inspiration.

You can also email photographs to [email protected] using the same tag.