By Richard Ellis

The end of the year is typically a time for reflection, to look back on past achievements and to look forward to future plans.

Reflecting on 2022 the quote from Kipling’s poem springs to mind 

“If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs….”

This would certainly apply to the committee who have delivered the programme in the face of a chaotic year from the centre.

Despite all that has gone on we have managed to deliver a programme of workshops and evening talks, maintained the website and kept it up to date, published the magazines and newsletters and kept our finances on track. Additionally we have delivered the first outdoor exhibition for the group and set up a bursary for young photographers to gain financial assistance whilst doing photography as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award. Our Facebook and Instagram pages continue to attract lots of traffic and the Circles programme continues to provide a valuable forum for critique and learning.

The programme for 2023 is really taking shape. In January we will bring the photo - exhibition to London at Southwark Cathedral. In March... continue to read here

By Peter Fortune

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year! In this Newsletter we have exciting news about the future of the Newsletter. In this edition we changing the way the Newsletter is laid out and distributed. The system used up to this edition has been cumbersome and inefficient. The committee has agreed to use a new system. Articles including text and images should be sent to me exactly as previously. The Newsletter will be generated and then each item in the Newsletter will have a thumbnail image and all the thumbnails in the Newsletter will made into a list and that list will be what you receive. The difference between from previous editions is that each item will be clickable and viewed on the Landscape Group’s Pages on the RPS website. The advantages are that we should be able to get the Newsletter out faster and because each item is clickable, you can read each item from the email or from the Landscape Group’s website at a later date. there is an item or items that you don’t want to look at you needn’t click on them. (There are other advantages which are technical and beyond a humble editor to fully understand or explain.)

Now for some more news about the world of camera manufacturing. Canon has cut back on its previous public ambitions for reducing its carbon footprint. Anyone who has signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement has agreed to aim for a 50% reduction in CO2 emissions from 2008 levels before 2030. continue to read here