I am treasurer and competition secretary of the Ampthill and District Camera Club and have just come across articles about you and by you in AV NEWS which two of our members, John and Jose’ Currant are contributors to. How amazing to come across you after all the years since we were science advisers together. I last remember that you were doing work with a twin slide projector but you have obviously progressed from that. We have looked at some of your work and think it inspiring. If you were ever down this way (Ampthill, Bedfordshire) would you like to meet and perhaps speak to our club?

I retired some 15 years ago, did a session as an OFSTED inspector but am now totally retired with a new wife of some ten years whom I met on OFSTED inspections.

Best Regards

Chris Elliott
Ex Science Adviser Hertfordshire

Many thanks for your kind comments. If you ever want any of these Sequences in 1024 x 768 definition, just say so and I will send them to you.

Peter

As I quite liked the guy, I’ll take that as a compliment. So thanks. Some folk may wish more of my poems were as light as his though!
Peter

Why do we have this need to make connections, I wonder.

As with all of Peter’s Sequences, I will need to watch it again – just for the pleasure of it!

Thanks, Joan. I don’t think I shall change it much now. I did make a 3.21 version which is sent off to the 321 event.

Your audio visuals are beautiful to watch and I love the way you have added voice to them. This results in a sensuous and evocative presentation. I love the way you were able to blend so very dissimilar images from different photographers into a beautiful presentation of ‘Fragile Earth’. Done Beautifully.

Just as you have mastered the art of storytelling by slowing down and leaving pauses between sentences, I think that you might apply this skill to the images, perhaps removing some in order to leave time for the eye to focus on one before transitioning to the next.

If you would like more people to view your AV’s, put in as many search terms as you can for each video. I suggest you put in popular topics such as Christmas, art, needlework, trees, shells and so forth, anything that is in your images that people may try to find.

Overall, I think that you are a true artist and this is great work. Congratulations.

Regards,
Ruth

Many thanks for this valuable comment.
Yes, I do understand what you are telling me about the visuals; however, I am not all that interested in pleasing photographers who seem to need to look carefully at an image for longer periods of time than I intend. My intent is the audiovisual poem as a whole, which sometimes would be damaged by lingering too long examining images.

Thanks again for the comments, Colin; maybe we have different expectations from AV. What I sometimes see in the name of AV is more like turning the pages of a picture book set to music which often does not even seem appropriate. If I want that sort of “entertainment” I turn to a picture book and/or play a CD,
AV Peter

Thanks for watching and listening I would not like to provide exactly what you may be “expecting”

Peter

I hope that you now have a site with such facilities, Len. John Beecroft-Mitchell will have let you know the secrets ny now, I’m sure.
Peter