On Thursday night 19 March 2026 we will hosting our very own Bob Webber for a talk on abstract photography at the Severna Park Baptist Church starting at 7:00 PM. This talk is in preparation for our April contests theme.

Bob has been member of the Arundel Camera Club for over a decade having and has served as the Vice President of Contest and as a critical member of the contests committee for years. He has a distinctive eye and style for photography unique within the club. He has earned Unlimited status in Digital, Color Prints, and Monochrome Prints.

Bob built his first camera out of a cardboard box, tracing paper and his grandmother’s Opera glasses. He started serious hobby photography with an Praktica SLR in 1970, working with black and

white film and developing and printing his own work. Later he also tried color slides with the Cibachrome process.

In 2001 Bob moved to digital photography and got serious about the art of photography in 2014 when he joined the Arundel Camera Club. 

His interest in creative symmetrical designs provoked the question: What is that and how was it made? This has led some folk to think he knows something about Abstract Photography. 

To wit Abstract Photos captures something outside the normal view of the subject such as the patterns, shapes or colors in such a way that these attributes greatly dominate the original traditional view. Abstracts are not photos of things but of some attribute of the subject. In some cases, there is no traditional view left, only features such as shapes colors and patterns etc. Now is the time to find out if my ideas are correct.