Visions of America by Tony Gervis FRPS, a passionate traveller and photographer who, being able to do both in abundance, lives an idyllic life. Serious photography started for him some 25 years ago as a result of a family holiday to the southwest States of the USA. With a relatively simple camera trying to capture the great National parks and “Cowboy” towns such as Dodge City, Tombstone, Bisbee and the like made him want more of the same, but much better.
He became a “Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society” as a result of a panel of images taken inside the now well known “Slot Canyons”. Some of those images will be shown in the presentation. As well as having lectured to American photographers in America on photographing Wranglers and Cowboys, Tony and his wife Linda have visited the States almost annually, sometimes for a few weeks, other times such as in 2010, for 5 months. America is for many photographers a dream, so much variation in subject matter, from deserts to rain forests, its culture and people, but for Tony it's Cowboys, their life style and their rodeos, as well as a climate which is predictable.