Professional photographer Derek Force gave the recent talk entitled 100 Best Views.

Members were shown various landscape scenes, both inland or coastal, all of which are to be found in the British Isles.

It was not an ordinary slides show, as the audience was given a lesson in how to obtain the effects seen in the pictures.

The speaker is not a studio type photographer - he considers the open countryside his studio. Many of his pictures are taken in response to specific commissions. He also organises photographic holidays.

He considers himself to be a traditionalist as far as camera techniques are concerned.

Whilst being in touch with modern equipment which does the thinking for you, he prefers to be in charge of what the camera is doing.

He does not use filters, neither does he use an exposure meter, but allows his eyes to perform that function.

His pictures illustrate the different qualities of light during the length of a day.

The position from which the picture is taken is important and if one is photographing a location normally full of people, an early start is needed, although the presence of a single human being can often be effective. Many valuable hints were learned.

Note that the next talk on March 4 is a change from the original programme due to the non-availability of the advertised speaker.

Brendan Flynn will now be talking about the life and work of Burne-Jones, an English painter and designer associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement.