Interview with One Stop Poetry
On Sunday I had an interview with One Stop Poetry magazine go live. Read it here It’s quite a lengthy piece but a great deal of thought and effort went into it, so I’d highly recommend you nip over there and take a butcher’s. That’s all from me today I’m afraid. See you Friday.
Maltese motors
Another Maltese based post… Friday’s topic will not be, in case you’re getting a little sick of them….. Whilst out there on my last trip I was asked to shoot some cars. Not just any old cars mind, but three classics. The Maltese are big to the point of fanatical on old British motor cars. [...]
Maltese streets
One of the most important aspects of travel photography is maximizing your shooting time, especially if you’re only there for a short time and it’s a speculative trip rather than an assignment. It all comes down to planning and on this last trip to Malta I had one, sketchy in places, but a plan nonetheless. [...]
LowePro S&F Modular Carrying System – quick review
In the past I’ve generally used all sorts of different methods to schlep my gear around, but mainly assorted rucksacks (depending on the amount and type of gear required) and an old cotton Hasselblad photography vest (which I’ve dyed to make it look slightly less khaki). But I’ve never really hit upon a solution that [...]
Looking up in Manchester
The other morning I went for a stroll around Manchester city centre again, but this time I set myself a slightly different constraint; I could only shoot up. So no street shots, macros of handrails or puddles, and generally no people either, unless they were sporting a blue and red cape.
Lena part 2
A couple more images from a recent shoot with Lena in Old Trafford. Another manic week so another brief post….. Both images using natural light only. Have a great weekend TTFN…..
Another trip to the Bollin Valley
Once again, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time around my favourite haunt, the Bollin Valley around Hale and Altrincham in deepest Cheshire. I find shooting down here really relaxing and it always produces inspiration of one kind or another.
How I moved my WordPress blog.
Hopefully you won’t have noticed, other than the post the other Friday, but I recently moved hosts with this blog, and before you go any further – this is a nerdy post so if you popped by looking for some new inspiring imagery and corresponding elegantly written “how to” today, then move down the [...]
No post this week, sorry.
Just a quick note to let ya’ll know that I’m not going to post this week – I’m in the process of migrating this blog from GoDaddy (who have been consistently letting me down) to another host over this side of the pond. Once transfer is complete and the DNS has done it’s nerdy stuff [...]
Best of 2010
Once again, I’ve gone through all my images shot during 2010 and selected what I feel to be my best images. Thanks to my revised Lightroom workflow and organisation it was a significantly less painful task than last year, and when I compare the final selection to last year’s post (see here) I definitely feel [...]
General Election count – Lessons learnt
I was asked to shoot the return of the elections in the constituency of Tatton where George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, was standing for re-election. This was going to be a first for me and I learnt quite a lot from the experience, so I thought I’d share the lessons I learnt. I was given [...]
St. Peter’s Square, Manchester
If you’ve been following this blog for more than a few posts, you’ll know that I’m immersed in an A-level photography course at the moment, and I’ve been so focused on it of late, that I felt I needed to get out and shoot something different for a bit of mental exercise. Lately, I’ve been [...]
Swinging Tyre
As part of my final A-level project for this year, I’ve been spending a lot of time round one of my old play areas as a kid. The River Bollin meanders from the hillsides on the edge of Macclesfield Forest, through deepest darkest Cheshire, crosses the Manchester Ship Cancal near the Lymm viaduct and gets [...]
A couple of good friends….
Up until now, pretty much everything I’ve done with off-camera flash has been done in full manual mode on the flashes and on the camera using Pocket Wizard Multimaxs. The reasoning behind this is that I wanted to fully grasp the concept of off-camera lighting and how ratios between the flashes and the ambient can [...]
Deansgate Manchester in HDR
Early Friday morning I headed into Manchester to shoot some more streetscapes. It was right nippy, and I haven’t managed to locate my photographer’s carpenters fingerless gloves for some time now. However I still managed to put in some time with some long exposure using some ND filters. I shot this with an ND400, and [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 6
For the next image in my Crime? series, I wanted to do something drug related. I fixed a few ideas in my head as to how I envisaged the final scene, though I had a few problems deciding how I’d get drugs of some kind into the scene, yet still maintain the degree of ambiguity [...]
My best of 2009
Finally, I’ve managed to go through the thousands of images I shot last year and select my favourite image from each month. I meant to do this last year, but what with one thing and another, I never managed to get round to it, but this year I’ve forced myself to set aside sufficient time. [...]
More wintry scenes
Here’s another couple of images shot in the midst of the worst snow since the last lot of really bad snow. The first image was made on the way down to the Bollin Valley from Hale Barns. The second image was made about half a mile away on the same night. I found this spot [...]
Snowy sunset in Derbyshire
I ventured up into the Peak District armed with my new snow chains and determined to get a wintery sunset image of some description. It was just as well that I’d packed the chains as within yards of turning off the main road, I got completely stuck in the snow. 5 minutes later and with [...]
Happy New Year!
I’ve been a little remiss on the blog posting front lately what with family Christmas etc. I also always feel that each image I post needs to be accompanied by a whole bunch of text which ends up holding me up posting. So to clear the backlog, I’ll be posting more images with less text! [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 5
After I’d finished at the previous shoot, and warmed up a little, I decided to try and find somewhere on the other side of the runways that would have the setting sun in the background. I found a couple of possibles, one in particular that stood out. So I headed back there about an hour [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 4
For the next image in my Boundaries project, for which I have now I chosen the title “Crime?” I wanted to photograph someone photographing something that in the current climate, would quite likely warrant a stop & search under section 44 of the Terrorism Act or some other similarly preposterous grounds for infringing a photographer’s [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 3
So I finally managed to get the permission I needed to stage the next shoot for my Boundaries Project. I wanted to stage an Arson attempt, and I had in mind the clubhouse of the local tennis club. In keeping with the theme, and just to make it that bit harder for myself, I wanted [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 2
For the next in my Boundaries series, I chose “Theft, I had envisaged a man appearing to either look for or steal a wallet and car keys. The torch could have been required as a result of a power cut, or he may need the torch as he doesn’t want to turn lights on and [...]
