Cripplegate Meeting

I went to the monthly Cripplegate camera club meeting last night.  We had a guest speaker come in to show us his photographs as we do when there isn't a competition.

 

It started off fine.  He seemed ok and he told an almost interesting story about having to take photographs of 25 saplings being planted in 25 different golf courses for the PGA.  It wasn't thrilling but it was a perfectly good story about being a professional photographer.

 

But that was the highlight.  The rest of the evening was a sales pitch for an hotel http://www.hotel-terrasses-eze.cote.azur.fr/ near Monaco.  I have to say that it looks lovely in the brochures.  Sadly his photographs were awful.  And I'm not being picky here.  God knows I can't afford to.  But these photographs were terrible.  Some of them would have been grand as holiday snaps but a lot of them weren't that interesting.  One bad photograph of a palm tree should not be followed by another 10 bad photos of palm trees and I don't care how impressively tall they were.  I'm not sure that we did need to see snaps of his missus outside the casino.  Though, to be fair, those were more interesting than the photos of his car.  Even though, as he told us for the umpteenth time, it did show how temperate the weather was in December.  Some people left for the pub during the interval.  They did the right thing.