C4 Members' Images
Each club member may post one image of his/her choice on the Web Site. We have included a short description, explaining the image. All images © by the member named herein.
Boys at the Fountain © Sven Walnum
Working on a documentary film about Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright and the first famous victim of the Spanish Civil War, I came across this scene at a public drinking fountain in Granada, Spain. The image to me spells "Spain."
Grasshoppers © Stuart Wilson
I made this image in Ecuador on a recent trip to photograph the insects of lowland Ecuador. The grasshoppers were photographed with a Nikon F4, 105mm macro lens, with two SB 24 Strobes, hand held. The grasshoppers are immature nymphs which apparently remain in a communal group until adulthood. Each insect is about 1/4" long.
Good Morning © Beverly LaRock
When I boiled an egg in the morning, I was intrigued with the design that the flame, the grate and the egg made through my glass pot. I came up with a strategy on how to take the photo and was pleased with the resulting image. If viewed as an eye looking at you, it definitely is a wake-up call.
Sandstone © Ted McKowen
Taken in April 2001 at "The Wave", a striking and frequently photographed Navajo sandstone formation in Coyote Buttes, a wilderness area next to Buckskin Gulch on the Utah-Arizona border. Tripod and Velvia film with a warming polarizer. Approximately 24-mm focal length.
A-peeling Tree © Bert Buenik
Alaskan Waterfalls © Hal Mishkin
Member Wins Prestigious Award |
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| Our club member Ines Roberts has won a prestigious award for her image "Frog Assembly" which was our 2006 Nature Image of the Year. She describes the award and how she happened to take it in her own words. |
To compete in the annual competition of the Shell BBC Wildlife of the Year is one of the toughest in the world. They categorize themselves as: " the most prestigious event of its kind in the world- selected by an international panel of judges out of 32,300 entries from 78 countries." Here you are competing with famous international, professional photographers who spend up to nine months of the year in the exotic parks and landscapes of the world. When I was the winner of Wildplaces in 2003 I was the only woman among all the male winners. To that must be added that I am not a youngster,- but since then you see also women among the winners. They choose about 100 photographs from the 32,300, and after a great display of those- in large format as transparencies- in the Natural History in London these travel around the world in various exhibitions. I feel very strongly about that issue, because it should encourage photographers in general, but also state that women though equally talented, can not travel around the world as it is possible for most men. So is it all a chance, like winning the lottery? Each year I feel frustrated and hesitate to send in work once more. Will I do it this year? The Frogs- I came across them quite by accident, near a hotpool on the Eastern side of the Sierras. Lots of tiny white corpses littered the banks. That upset me deeply, as I thought that somebody had trampled them to death.( It must have been the extreme early cold in that area) This group seemed to shelter in an open- garbage drainpipe. They were about one inch in size, looked fully mature and could not be Bullfrogs, as the experts in London identified them. Gilbert found them in a book at the SB Natural History Museum, where they named frogs in this specific area as Yellow Legged frogs. I went to the same area this autumn, saw only about three, but they were still the same size. I photographed them lying on my tummy with a 24-85 mm lens and digital hoping for the best. In the magnificently printed book of the BBC they are titled "Frog refuse." You can google Shell (or BBC) Wildlife Photographer of the Year and see all the other great images. |