On Thursday 19th March Smethwick Photographic Society’s very own long time member and Audio Video specialist Ray Dowding will be presenting a history of his AV shows. Members and guests will get a tour de force of visual experiences complete with excellent choices of music.
The presentation is entitled:-
‘A Visual Experience’
Ray Dowding formed Fentham Photographic Society from a night school class in the early 1960s. His interest in Audio Visual presentations (AV) was formulated following a visit to a Kodak production.
Ray’s first venture into AV was with second hand manual projectors and a home made dissolve system. He subsequently gained his ARPS certification in London followed two years later with an FRPS in Coventry. Later Ray sat on the RPS AV distinctions panel for LRPS and judged the RPS AV International in Bath. With extensive travel across the country giving AV shows and talks helped to prepare him for the extensive work Ray has done for SPS. From Inverness in the north of Scotland to London in the south east and Cardiff to the west up until recently Ray was the club ‘go to guy’ for all things AV.
This presentation to SPS members and guests will be his swansong as ill health and age has forced retirement from the AV circuit.
Here’s a selection of what we can expect from Ray:
This week’s talk is part of a series of FREE ‘taster’ sessions for local Sandwell community residents and workers (non SPS members or regular guests). If interested do login or better still come along to the live presentation at the clubhouse. Full details below.
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