This evening’s talk is by a fantastic macro photographer, René Krekels. The talk is described here in his own words:

LITTLE CREATURES, SEEN DIFFERENTLY
A performance by René Krekels

René Krekels from the Netherlands graduated in biology and also studied photography. A fruitful combination, especially when we are talking about small animals. With macro photography he brought his favourite subjects in front of the lens. Of course, biodiversity in all its beauty was already a challenge. Later René saw and read about the behaviour of small animals. That made photography more interesting and intensive. For example, to take pictures of flying creatures, which many insects do, he used high-speed photography, like your Stephen Dalton who had technically achieved it much earlier. In this way René Krekels was also able to show why blue-winged grasshoppers had been given that name.

René writes and publishes images in magazines. Last year he won the 1st prize in the CUPOTY photo competition ‘Close-up Photographer of the Year – category insects’ with an image of acid-spraying wood ants.
In addition to publications, René likes to give performances at nature organizations and photo clubs.

The evening is then filled with a lot of images but also with music. Everything is then focused on the experience that the viewers take home with them. That is why he will also delight the audience with parts of his performance “Bedroom secrets of Small animals”. Beauty but also functionality are depicted. Since the performance takes place at FRODSHAM & DISTRICT PS, René Krekels will regularly discuss ‘the making of’ during the lecture.