A slide presentation about photography given by Mike McCormac FRPS at the UKCA Camera Club in Paphos, Cyprus on 3 April 2013.

1. Mike McCormac FRPS

2. Who am I?
Subjects that move me
 Railways
 The Somme Battlefield
 Cyprus
And now?
To cover…

3. Aged 11, it started at a fruit machine in Scarborough

4. Years becoming technically proficient
and creatively blind

5. All change at 42

6. Royal Photographic
Society
 Licentiateship (LRPS)
 November 2002
 Associateship (ARPS)
 April 2003
 Fellowship (FRPS)
 April 2004
It got competitive…

7. …and much more satisfying

8. Railways
 Steam Railway, Heritage Railway, Railway Magazine, Railway
Photography, Rail
Photography
 Digital Photographer, Digital Camera Buyer, Amateur Photographer
General
 The Guardian, Cyprus Mail, A Place in the Sun
Published in…

9.  Light is everything
 Simplify, then simplify more
 Kit is only kit
 Find shapes
 Stop when something catches
 Find threes
your eye
 Cards are cheap
 If it looks dull, it is
 It wont happen again
 Get it right when you shoot
10 lessons learned

10. Railways

11. “ You don't take a
photograph, you make it
Ansel Adams
(1902-1984)
Landscape Photographer
”

16. “
When your mouth drops
open, click the shutter
Harold Feinstein
American photographer
”

28. “
I often think the night is
more alive and more
richly coloured than the
day
Vincent van Gogh
(1853-1890)
Dutch painter
”

33. Somme Battlefield

38. Cyprus

39. “
It's on and around the
edges where the
landscape offers up its
best images
Joe Cornish
British photographer
”

43. “ The hardest thing in
photography is to create a
simple image
Anne Geddes
Australian photographer
”

52. “I'm inspired by the way
light makes objects look
magical and ethereal
Allan Jenkins
British photographer
”

57. “If your pictures aren't
good enough, you're not
close enough
Robert Capa
(1913-1954)
War Photographer
”

61. “
The camera's only job is to
get out of the way of
making photographs
Ken Rockwell
American photographer
”

67. And now?

76. Web: www.mikemccormac.com
Twitter: @mikemccormac
Phone: 99 860 725
Mike McCormac