I am very pleased to announce that I have passed my CPAGB (Credit award of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain) which allows me to use the letters after my name, so now I’m Richard Wilson CPAGB. 🙂

I attended the day which was held at Watford Grammar School for Boys on the 23rd November 2019.  I was surrounded by good friends from my camera club, four of whom also gained their award, congratulations to them.

I love how a chain of events can sometimes lead to an idea which fuels the creative process.  I was in a pub with a good friend and during a conversation where I announced “I’m quite robust actually”, I was met with, “Nah, you’re a delicate flower”.  Of coarse I objected at the threat to my macho masculinity! Shortly after I realised there’s is no hiding the fact that I’m sometimes a bit of a…

Belated seasons greetings. I haven’t been out for a while, y’know, normal life getting in the way of photography. But, the Christmas and new year break from work provided me with the opportunity of killing not two, but three birds with one stone. A visit to a friend and my son who both live in the New Forest area, and some photography…