A photographic journey, "From Darkroom to Digital", was presented by Barry Senior ARPS, APAGB, to members of Winchester Photographic Society.

His interest in photography began as long ago as school days when he won a book with one of his first black and white prints in the school's photography club. So began his life-long love of darkroom techniques, producing principally monochrome images but, in more recent years, both colour and monochrome derived from manipulated digital images.

Throughout the display of so many striking prints his love of graphic, simple images with strong contrast and atmosphere became evident. His favourite subjects - landscapes, architecture and still life frequently revealed the style he has developed. His LRPS panel of ten pictures were simple, bold images - trees, fences, power stations and buildings contrasting with industrial landscapes. Lighting, as in all photography, is so important and Barry's prints certainly revealed his ability to capture a moment in time with lighting which enhanced the landscape and to create a particular atmosphere either in the darkroom or digitally.

His ARPS panel similarly displayed the simple, bold shapes - a cross, an isolated tree, a windmill, cooling towers and a cottage in close juxtaposition. Some sets of pictures revealed his interest in photographing rocks and geological features such as the clints and grykes at Malham Cove, the wave-cut platform at Kimmeridge and the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs.

Barry Senior began digital photography in 1996 and, since then, has experimented with the many techniques which are possible using a computer. Although many of the subjects he photographs have remained the same, he has experimented with sepia toning, selective colouring of monochrome images as well as enhancing his colour prints, among which he displayed beautiful examples from Zion Canyon National Park and Death Valley.

Carol Watson, president, thanked Barry Senior for sharing his photographic journey with members, for the technical information he had provided and for his amusing descriptions, such as "a pleasing lack of definition" which he had used to describe an unsharp picture.