Astrid McGeachan, a photographer originally from Germany but living in the UK since 1997, gave us a really interesting talk on the idea of how photography evokes an emotional response in the viewer. Image making for Astrid is intended to evoke a memory, a feeling, an emotion, or a connection with a place. She explained how to make an "open-ended" photograph helps to give a story or interpretation to the image and part of her process is to help those looking at her images to

Robert Harvey, a photographer based in Wiltshire gave us a talk about making images of landscapes in Winter. He explained the challenges and opportunities of making images using the winter light, frost and snow to document the beautiful transformation of the landscape during the winter months. "Winter is my favourite season for landscape photography, especially when snow, ice and frost combine with crisp, clear air and low sunlight". Robert's images taken in the UK were reall