Carol Watson – Digital Photographer Of The Year

Awards Certificates from the 2021/22 Season and Photowshow 2022 were handed out by over a series of club meetings. Well done to all awarded members, but in particular to Carol Watson who won the Digital Photographer of the Year and keeping it in the family, Gordon Watson who won the Print Photographer of the Year.

I had organised two trips to this location covering Saturday 22^nd and Sunday 23^rd November. Due to a weather forecast of persistent rain on the Sunday morning, which did materialise, I cancelled the Sunday walk. This was so disappointing particularly as we had a clear blue sky on Saturday. On Saturday morning 14 members met in the car park before walking down a dark tree lined avenue. The sun was so low in the sky it pierced the trees only to cast light on the woodland to our right. Our next photo opportunity was taking images of the autumn colours with a stream running through the scene and close up images of the flora. On previous visits I’ve never noticed the fungi on the trees and the woodland floor, but our group certainly found plenty of examples. After a pleasant walk we returned to the car park a little later than I’d planned. I hope the group enjoyed the experience, it’s an area I go back to each autumn.

Mike Halstead

LSAPS Group At Yarrow Valley Country Park

Thirteen LSAPS members met up for a 10am start at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley. Chorley Council has published leaflets covering 4 walks around the country park. Using some of those directions I planned a short walk around the lake, on to the waterfall, then a short distance along the River Yarrow before returning to our cars at 12.30pm. It would have been nice to see more wildlife, however the weather stayed fine allowing us to capture images of the surroundings.

Mike

Emerging Into The Light by Stuart Cahill

We met up in High Street car park Garstang. Our band of 10 first set out to the flood defence barrier on the River Wyre. A splash in the river drew our attention to a group of lads jumping into the river on this warm, still evening.

We retraced our steps back to the car park and continued on the river bank to the Lancaster canal. A steep set of stairs lead up from the river to the canal and we headed past Garstang basin on the tow path towards the A6 main road near the Bellflower pub. The sun was going down in front of us giving a lovely orange glow in the sky which reflected on the water in the canal. On our way back to the cars we stopped off in Garstang for a drink and chat.

Mike