1. Greek statues photographed


    Date: 9/16/2015, Categories: Mature, Author: printeven, Rating: 100, Source: xHamster

    After retiring I was at a bit of a loss as to how to fill my time and a friend suggested going to the University of the 3rd Age meetings and after checking the dates online I decided to go to the next one. On arrival one of the organisers explained to me how the U3A operates and gave me some leaflets about the special interest groups. The speaker invited that day gave a talk on 18th century pottery decoration which sounds extremely boring but I found it interesting as I like visiting antique shops. Reading the leaflets I discovered that there were an Artists group and a Photographic group. I have an artistic interest in relief printing using lino cuts and wood blocks and thought the Artists group might be worth going to. I made a couple of visits and found the majority of people were interested in painting and sketching and didn't find anybody with the same interest as me so I thought I would try the Photographics group. The Photographic group meets once a month and each meeting starts with a talk related to photography, followed by show-and tell where members talk about one of their pictures including all the technical detail and finished with a question and answer session. Twice a year there would be a Group show and a local gallery offered wall space for for these events for free taking a small percentage on any prints sold. Over a few months I learned a lot about cameras, photography techniques, places to photograph and the post processing of images using programs such as ...
    Photoshop. Two regular presenters who were very knowledgable about photography were s****rs Rachel and Eileen. They always entered the show and regularly had an image to discuss at the monthly show-and-tell sessions. One common subject in their work has been portraits of nude male models and studies of men who belonged to the Group. At the last meeting they showed a monochrome picture of Dave digging in his garden. On first glance the picture looked nothing special but a longer study revealed a lot of detail. Poor Dave took a lot of ribbing at the meeting such as, &#034Was he the cover picture of Geriatric Weekly?&#034 or &#034Was he adding to his pension with reverse stripping where people paid him to put his clother on?&#034. I spoke to Dave after the meeting about the portrait and he said that if Rachel or Eileen asked me to pose that I should &#034 Go with the flow&#034 whatever that means, and that I would find the session very enjoyable. I spoke to Rachel and Eileen on several occasions and got a lot of advice on how to take pictures using my bridge camera. About nine months after joining the group Rachel asked me if I would be interested in being one of their photographic studies. She told me that their current project was to photograph older men recreating some of the poses of Greek statues and images found on Greek artefacts. Having a lot of free time I agreed to take part and we set a date for me to go to their house. When the day came I was a bit apprehensive as I ...
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