THE talented David Bathard, who joined the club last season, led our recent members’ evening using Zoom to illustrate the work he has done in travel photography, writes Jenny Short of Norton Radstock Photographic Society (NRPS).

He has been successful in several competitions entering images from his favourite destination, India, so we were expecting these to feature, but there were many other destinations illustrated in what was a calm, relaxing evening, spent engaging with a series of highly professional Audio Visual presentations.

The initial AV featured The Golden Temple, first of a number from India, accompanied by its haunting, iconic melodies. We enjoyed images from this and the Taj Mahal rooted in the architecture and the culture, as well as horse focused images from Gujarat and spectacular butterflies from Kerala. There were portraits, landscapes and candid scenes of life in Thailand, and well-timed reminders from David that these countries are places of extreme contrasts in terms of conditions and opportunities.

Closer to home we were treated to images of Bath “When Night Falls”, where coloured lights and largely deserted streets were far from what, as daytime visitors, we might expect to see. Equally inspiring images ensued from an unlikely destination for David and his wife-Blackpool!

The image David has chosen to accompany this report is typical of his quest for a great mage with one eye open for the unexpected in that it features Cranes that he discovered were migrating in their thousands at the time of his visit. We enjoyed the evening as illustrated by the feedback and questions he received before members were reminded to hand in their entries for the upcoming DPI competition, “Lettter T”, and to be aware that in March we will be holding the Annual Dinner and Awards ceremony as well as the less inviting but necessary AGM!