Achieving an effect

Press, 25 February 1986, Page 2

Achieving an effect

Beer drinkers may not be the prettiest sight in the world, but the colour slide this print was taken from won a Christchurch amateur photographer, Mr Ron Willems, gold and silver medals at the Adelaide Festival of Arts international photographic exhibition judged recently. Mr Willems said he spent about two years “working on and off” to develop the prize-win-ning slide from a photo-

graph of a man sprawled out in a chair drinking from a beer bottle.

In colour, the man’s purple-blue jeans appear to be overlaid with flecks of golden light, and it was achieving the colour effects that took time, he said.

The slide won the Photographic Society of America’s gold medal for the best contemporary colour transparency and the Kodak silver medal for pictorial slides. It

was most unusual for a contemporary slide to be placed in pictorial slide classes. Amateur photographers from about 40 different countries entered work and the exhibition will be shown in Adelaide between March 6 and March 16. Mr Willems has taken a serious interest in photography for about 16 years and is a member of the Christchurch Photographic Society.