Celebrating Bob Reynolds FRPS

Bob has been a member of The Club since 2008, and his extensive travels around the world have concentrated on travel photography. In 2017 he was awarded his Licentiateship, followed in 2019 by his Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society, with a panel of images showing the effects of the earthquake on Katmandu and its citizens.  

During Covid he discovered, on his doorstep, the wonders of Mutters Moor and this ignited a passion for photographing the fungi there - prompting Bob to disappear for innumerable hours amongst the often dark, damp, earthy rotting environment where these amazing organisms thrive. 

Bob’s reputation for photographing fungi soon became known locally and in 2024 a panel of his images was displayed on the Sidmouth School of Art billboard at The Ham carpark.  

After 5 years of hard, but enjoyable work and with many thousands of images, in November 2025 he applied for and was awarded his Fellowship under the genre of Natural History Photography - his panel of 21 prints showing a selection of fungi with the creatures that live on them. The assessors found that his images were distinctive, depicting an enchanted environment that is rarely seen and appreciated. The panel was accompanied by a Statement of Intent and a Species List. 

Bob is delighted that he did not need to travel far to achieve his distinction “It’s truly amazing what you can find on your doorstep if you are prepared to look”, he says. 

The panel layout and Statement are shown below, along with a selection of his fabulous images.