The London Photographic Meetup Group

Tom Ang : Guest Speaker at the LPMGs Annual Seminar

Jan 23 Sat 10:00 AM

Location: The Tabernacle

34-35 Powis Square
London W11 2AY
Kensington
020 7520 9305

This is a private home or office

Attendance: 140 people attended.
4.5056 (56 ratings)
Who organized?
Alex and Tom
Price: GBP15.00 per person
refund policy

This year we are pleased to announce Tom Ang as the guest speaker for the LPMGs annual seminar. Tom Ang is considered the 'photographers photographer' because he doesn't limit himself to any one form of photography but seems to excel in all forms. He is a television presenter with shows which include 'A Digital Picture of Britain’, and 'Britain in Pictures'. He is the author of many photography books including 'How to Photograph Absolutely Everything' and 'The Digital Photographers Handbook'.

Mr Ang will be talking about his 30 year career in photography, how he got started through to what he's doing today and most importantly - why he does it : the pictures. He'll discuss writing books and making tv programmes and how he manages to stay so productive. He'll also show and talk about his favourite images and we'll have an opportunity to see some of his images that haven't been seen before. There will also be an hour for a question and answer session so you can pick the brain of the man who is probably one of the most successful photographers today.

Mr Ang will be selling his books and has kindly offered to autograph his books - whether you buy one on the day or bring one of your own - for a donation to be given to the charity he supports 'Practical Action'. The LPMG will be making a donation to the same charity with profits made from the day.

Chris Sargent Landscape Photography
Chris will be starting the day off with a talk on 'Aspects of Landscape Photography'

Chris is a keen amatuer photographer who has been a member of the LPMG since the beginning in 2006. Chris won LPMGs PoTY in 2008 and his work appears in photography magazines regularly. Chris's photography, whether it be macro, portrait, architecture, street or any other type he sets his eye to is outstanding but his love lies in landscape photography, take a look at his landscape shots here: http://www.flickr.com...
Topics to include:

Equipment
Composition
Hyper-Focal Distance
Locations
Q&A

Schedule of events
10.00 Tom Steemson - Welcome
10.15 Chris Sargent - Landscape
11.00-11.20 break
11.20-12.10 Tom Ang
12.10-12.30 break
12.30-12.50 Tom Ang
12.50-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Tom Ang - Questions
15.00-16.00 Book signing and exit

We'll be running from 10am to 4pm.

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Ross
Crack-a-jack!!!

Posted Jan 23, 2010 10:28 PM
Nick Reynolds
looks to be an excellent day!

Posted Jan 22, 2010 4:41 PM
Harris S
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Posted Jan 22, 2010 11:29 AM
grainne
My first LPMG meetup, looking forward to it !

Posted Jan 22, 2010 9:57 AM
AlexM
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Posted Jan 21, 2010 10:12 PM
Sasha Balla
Would have loved to have joined in but I'm already booked for something else that day which cost money so can't get out if it! Would have been a great day though:) Have fun everyone!

Posted Jan 21, 2010 9:47 AM
Alex
You can either bring Ang's book in with you and he'll autograph it for a donation to his charity, or buy one of the books he'll be bringing along.

Posted Jan 21, 2010 6:58 AM
Jenny
Er, I didn't realise my comment about attending was going to be published on the web page! Embarassing. Anyway Transaction ID: 598079761Y017644L

Posted Jan 20, 2010 9:44 PM
Graham
Have one of Ang's books...

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Posted Jan 20, 2010 8:51 PM
Rams
Really looking forward to this as I've read his books and enjoyed them thoroughly.
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Posted Jan 18, 2010 2:57 PM
Marco Kuntze
My first LPMG meetup, very excited about Saturday

Posted Jan 17, 2010 10:05 PM
Tim
Looking forward to this one! Transaction ID: 2VY75610PK6933222

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Eugene
My 1st meetup looks to be a great one! Transaction ID: 4XR55925NN346973P

Posted Jan 10, 2010 5:41 PM
Sarah
Looking forward to it. Transaction ID: 3C552582KV203743T

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Jerome
See you guys there. Cheers. Transaction ID: 4RP24297VF5624052

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Who attended?

140 attendees
- Kath Wood
  
  “ Excellent presentation by Chris and truely inspirational stuff from Tom Ang! I came away with lots of notes and ideas to try! ”
- Ross
  
  “ Crack-a-jack!!! ”
- Jenny
  
  “ He was fantastic. Brilliant photographer and down to earth guy. Really inspirational. Re the event - started too early (10am)! ”
- SEL25
  
  “ Fantastic I thought he was very open about his experiences and entertaining in his presentation ”
- Sarah
  
  “ Tom Ang is an excellent speaker and an excellent photographer. I liked his down to earth approach. The various techniques he uses are very inspirational and I will certainly try the 'caterpillar'. ”
- Kpics
  
  “ what a great event, can't wait for his return to a meetup ”
- Lee
  
  “ motivating and inspirational ”
- Ralph
  
  “ What a great day. ”
- Alex (+1 guest)
  
  “ Thanks to Tom for all his help organising, hosting and generally doing what he does best and making sure events run smoothly. What a great day starting with Chris's landscape talk, informative with great images and a weird quirky sense of humour! Thanks Chris. And Tom Ang was just inspirational... beautiful images, amazing creativity including all his patchwork images and the bleached overexposed stuff was magical... if you're reading this Tom, thanks again sir... this was a talk and I simply won't ever forget it. And thanks to Wendy for sorting out all the background stuff so you could get here. Hope to see you again one day. ”
- Megan P
  
  “ I found Tom and his work to be both motivating and inspirational and I've learned a lot. Such a pity that this event clashed with the 'I'm a Photographer not a Terrorist' protest today otherwise I know a bunch of mates who would have loved to come to this. Many thanks to both the speakers and to Alex and Tom for arranging it :) ”
- Martin L (+1 guest)
  
  “ Tom Ang is just so inspiring! It's not just his great photographs, it's even more the way he does things. Fantastic! ”
- David B
  
  “ Quality! Tom was a really good speaker and covered so much, I enjoyed seeing his 'caterpillar' work and the white project. Chris' talk was really informative especially the areas around focusing. Thanks very much for organising. ”
- Ben Freeman
  
  “ This was tremendous value, enjoyable and also informative. It provided the inspiration of going to an excellent art gallery with background information given in an informal style to enable my own amateur afforts to progress. Very much enjoyed and well done for all the organisational effort and for picking such good speakers. Ben ”
- Tracy Dalby
  
  “ Really interesting talk ”
- Michael Preston
  
  “ Tom's talk was very informative and I got a lot out of it. I also really loved Chris's talk and found this really good. I hope he puts the presentation on the web for others to download - I'd definitely like a copy! ”
- Tom
  
  Organiser
  
  “ Superb presentations by both Chris and Tom. Hat's off to the tenacity that Alex demonstrated in managing to bag such a photographic megastar for our humble group. Tom Ang was very good too. ;o) I jest of course. I hope that we can get both of these guys back again soon to offer more insights to their expertise. ”
- Richard Carpenter
  
  “ Excellent talk, thank you Alex for organising it all! ”
- Daniel
  
  “ A very enjoyable day of talks by Chris & Tom. It is great that Alex managed to get such a high profile person as Tom Ang to talk to us. ”
- Sarah Coffill
  
  “ This was my first Seminar and what a way to start. I really enjoyed this event and it has given me encouragement and inspiration to want to take better pictures and to keep my eye peeled at all times for anything that would make a good picture better..... ”
- Greg G
  
  “ An upbeat ramble through Tom's work with little technical or business content, little time for Q&As but highly inspirational. ”
- wayne
  
  “ Very worthwhile lecture by Tom Ang. The photographic ideas he presented were simple and yet effective. Thanks LPMG for setting this up. ”
- Gemma
  
  “ Very inspirational! ”
- janmaikeru
  
  “ It was a very platitudinous talk. ”
- Mark Steele
  
  “ Excellent - very inspirational. ”
- Jo C
  
  “ Great to see so many fantastic photos and to hear about someone who does things differently-an inspiration. ”
- Hannah Mitchell
  
  “ The whole day was very interesting, inspiring and useful. The venue was pretty good too. I've only managed to attend two events so far but they've both been excellent and I look forward to being able to get to some more in the near future. ”
- Erica
  
  “ Great speaker, really generous with his time and knowledge, and fantastic at making you feel that success is within the reach of all of us. Great venue too. Well done to Alex for organising such a great event! ”
- Eugene
  
  “ Very informative and lively talk! I had a great time. ”
- Gina
  
  “ Fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyable and learned loads. Also Chris' talk was excellent and thanks for some personal help with my camera too. I loved Tom's photos made up of cut-up squares of other photos - gorgeous. Gina ”
- betty
  
  “ Thought it was fantastic! learnt a great deal and got heaps of good tips. Can't wait to try some technics out. ”
- Sarah Thomas
- Gail Barlow (+1 guest)
- Eddie
- Galia
- Jamie Watts
- Rams
- David D
- sam_c (+1 guest)
- Jerome
- Agness Lugovska
- Nikki D
- Maria_Wid
- Mike Woodford
- Justin Tsuei
- Elaine
- Chris King
- Jackson
- david fearn
- Natasha Stark
- Richard Lansdown