THE first 2014 meeting of Okehampton Camera Club will take place on January 6.

The guest speaker will be Susan Brown FRPS, who will be giving a talk entitled 'Pairs, Projects and Panels'.

Susan's interest in photography spans some thirty years, encompassing darkroom to digital photography.

Her work is widely known both in the UK and internationally, and she has been published in several magazines and books, most recently 'The Coast'.

She has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 on landscape photography and has images accepted in the Royal Photographic Society's International Exhibition, which tours the UK, for three consecutive years.

Susan said: 'I consider photography to be the art form of painting with available light. Changing intensity, colour and direction of light results in a change of mood of the same elements.

'I respond to the intrinsic power of light that continuously alters shape and form. Further changes can be made by exposure and shutter speed, tools uniquely available to the photographer.

'Some of my images encapsulate a moment in time. Others are ethereal, dreamlike and considered, so requiring planning and long time exposures to see beneath the "seen" image.'

The meeting takes place in All Saints Church Hall on Market Street at 7.30pm. Visitors are always welcome to the meetings.

For more information on the camera club visit http://www.okehamptoncameraclub.co.uk">www.okehamptoncameraclub.co.uk