I have been a keen photographer for about 50 years, retiring from Banking in 1978, after which I was able to pursue my passion for photography full time.

I have been a Trustee, Past President and life member of Croydon Camera club as well as an active member of Arena, Photographers from the South for over 15 years.

My experience extends to many solo exhibitions and I organized the setting up and hanging of The Whiteley’s of Bayswater Exhibition, London, for Arena in 1999, involving some 550 framed prints.

I have always believed that photography stands in it’s own right as a visual art form and have constantly viewed the energy of surrealism of the Bauhaus with great excitement. I feel that now digital photography has taken hold it is a good vehicle to promote this Group and some knowledge of there work in the 1960s should be part of any serious photographers vocabulary.

Being a follower of Cartier Bresson and taking transparencies for many years

has impressed upon me that the art of instant composition cannot be ignored and once mastered makes photography that much more satisfying.

Finally allow me to give you some food for thought;

What we see as the final product of a photographer’s work is, of course, that photographer’s image. However it is an extension or interpretation of what the photographer saw when he or she was composing the picture in the first place.

Our own particular photograph is the end product of skill and luck resulting in a countless collection of images, pictures and photographs held in our brain all amalgamating, fighting and bursting for freedom, it’s all in our heads, we live in our heads, what comes out is a release, sometimes not what we intended, sometimes pleasing, many times a disappointment but HOW EXCITING. If you are not excited then change direction.

Many thanks if you have read down this far. Harry