Monday, 19th November, Peter Warn delighted the members with his detailed talk on close-up photography.  Peter is a biologist by training and from an early age had an interest in wildlife and its appearance under the microscope.  His macro photography therefore, is mainly concerned with capturing pictures of things to be found in the garden, forest and his second home, the restoration project of Copped Hall just below Epping.  The start of his talk described the challenges of close-up/macro photography and the tools to help overcome them.  He generously gave us the benefit of all his experience and research, and provided extensive notes on the tools he described.  All this was interleaved with some cracking macro photography with all the details of his approach and settings, plus equipment used on the day.   The second half addressed  specific techniques and compositional ideas by which the subjects may be converted from a record into a photograph.  Thoroughly enjoyable.