Here is advance notice of an upcoming talk by Rucksack Club member John Beatty. John needs no introduction on this web site but here goes anyway.
On Thursday 30th November we welcome professional photographer John Beatty to Bury Photographic Society. John is one of Britain’s most exciting and stimulating nature, travel and adventure photographers. His work is chiefly concerned with the timeless rhythms of the natural world, its beauty and simplicity and man’s place within it.
For over thirty years, John has ventured across the world returning with stories of his experiences of the wilderness which few have encountered. He has witnessed darkness and fire with Kalahari bushmen; wolves, walrus and streams of caribou in Aleutian Alaska; collected shells from Pacific beaches, run with wilderbeests in the ancient dusts of Serengeti; hiked to hidden springs of Grand Canyon. His travels are infused with adventure and wonderment, from Galapagos to the Andes, Namibia, Mongolia and the Amazon Basin. Closer to home, John has photographed almost all wild land locations in Britain, from the windswept tors of Cornwall to white strands of the Outer Hebrides.
As a photographer of wilderness it is the drama of landscape, its biodiversity and wild weather that attracts him most. Major expeditions including seven months spent in Antarctica, a winter in Spitzbergen and an historic four hundred mile traverse of the Greenland Icecap, John’s assignments have taken him to some of the wildest lands on Earth.
See www.buryps.co.uk for more details and our location. Prospective members are welcome to attend three meetings before deciding to join. If you are attending a particular meeting as a one off then a donation to help cover the cost of the evening would be welcome. Come along and see what belonging to a club can do for your photography.
Thanks to Tim Taylor for permission to promote Bury Photographic Society meetings here when there is a common interest.
Steve Smith