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Please note: RPS House is currently closed. We will be open again from 10am on Thursday 17th October 2024.

White And Pink Edge Rose For DIG
CREDIT: Melanie Sharp

Lockdown Stories

RPS Digital Imaging
Forecast Unsettled
CREDIT: David Scrivener

Mastering Post-Processing

Recently retired, David Scrivener picked up his IR converted camera during lockdown and taught himself how to process the images using YouTube tutorials.

Mastering Post-Processing
Waiting For The Cricket Match 2020
CREDIT: Ian Simpson

Waiting for the Cricket to Start

Ian Simpson found a lifeline in observing and photographing people in Birkenhead Park in Liverpool during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Waiting for the Cricket
Wendy G Davies 5 Selfie Scream
CREDIT: Wendy G Davies LRPS

My Family in Lockdown

Wendy G Davies recorded her family's life during the first Covid-19 lockdown in UK

My family in Lockdown
Blue Wood
CREDIT: Peter Down LRPS

Going Abstract

Lockdown gave Peter Downs the opportunity to hone his abstract imagery.

Going Abstract
Blue Lily For DIG
CREDIT: Melanie Sharp

First Publication

Melanie Sharp realised the first publication of one of her flower photos during lockdown.

First publication
Rainbows painted by children during lockdown
CREDIT: Sue Hutton ARPS

Chasing Rainbows

Sue Hutton compiled a photobook with haiku, a Japanese poetry form, to celebrate the rainbows that children drew and painted in lockdown.

Chasing Rainbows
Manaquins Clearout Debenhams Melanie Chalk ARPS
CREDIT: Melanie Chalk ARPS

Folkestone 365

Melanie and her husband Michael took part in the 2020 Folkestone 365 photographic challenge aiming to take a photo a day to capture the life of the community, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

Folkestone 365
8 May 20, 9 33
CREDIT: Lois Wakeman LRPS

Lockdown Blues

Lois Wakeman used her photography as therapy in the first lockdown in 2020, documenting the sea close to where she lives.

Lockdown Blues
Just Strolling
CREDIT: Jan Lee

In Step with Mummy

Jan Lee describes her family bubble in lockdown and how strolling down a country lane brought tranquillity.

In Step with Mummy
Talgarth Mental Hospital mid-Wales, exterior
CREDIT: Mick Pleszkan

Investigating Talgarth

Mick Pleszkan joined the RPS during lockdown and took the Digital Photography course with the Open University with a view to doing his LRPS. His chosen genre was Architecture, and he was able to visit and photograph the old Mid-Wales Mental Hospital in Powys, often known as Talgarth. The hospital is now largely in ruins.

Investigating Talgarth