Archive for October, 2007
Since being published in Professional Photgrapher, I have received one or two calls regarding work experience or the possibility of becoming an assistant for NLP. I am really sorry to say that at this time, there are no vacancies or opportunities available.
However I am more than happy to help in other ways and will be looking into this in the future. I am planning a number of courses and workshops for 2008 in the various fields I work with. I will be publishing more on this as soon as I have some more concrete ideas in place!
Our stock library system is now up and running. We have installed Pixaria 2 at http://www.nicklewis.net/stock and its up and running. You may start using it right now even though I need to modify the themes to make it look more independent and Nick Lewis Photography’ish!
It has its own News Feed which is worth subscribing to, as when I publish new sets of images, the RSS feed will be updated to bring you these updates automatically.
We are currently working on re-introducing the stock library system Pixaria to this web site. Version 2.0 is being launched soon and the upgrade will be applied this weekend.
You may view the system at http://www.nicklewis.net/stock but please bear in mind that its not ready for launch quite yet and won’t be fully operational until the end of the year. Please feel free to use the facility but with a little caution for the time being!
The service will allow clients to purchase licensed stock images from this site via negotiation with full e-commerce facilities.
We are also planning to market a range of photographic prints via the service.
Will keep you posted!
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I make an appearance in this month’s issue of “Professional Photographer” magazine. Roger Payne (Editor of FPME and Associate Editor of Photography Monthly) writes about the trials and tribulations of music photography. I feature as a case study alongside one other photographer (the far more established) Scarlet Page. It reads very well and a couple of my shots have been reproduced too.
I can tell you that you can expect more writing from me in the near future, its something I am working hard on right now…. Bye for now!
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Autumn is now starting to really kick in, today we saw the first heavy frost of the season and I decided to capture some of it in Windsor Great Park where there was the added delight of a low lying mist.
The close-ups of tree bark were (believe it or not) taken from one single tree. I discovered the specimen in Burnham Beeches, a gnarled old stump, that offered a variety of wonderful textures and patterns for me and my camera. Nature is truly amazing!
Just seen a red kite near Hook in Hampshire! They are spreading!
Twitter.com has just launched a new facility that allows you to monitor “tweets” containing certain keywords with your instant messenger client. It dawned on me that people out there are probably watching “photography” as a keyword. So could Twitter be used as a powerful marketing tool? Food for thought…
Received my copy of FPME today and delighted with how my feature looks. Go and get your copy now, go and visit www.fpme.co.uk for more information.
Just a quick note to let you know that I have an account with The Imagefile, in fact I was one of their first customers to sign up. I am currently working out what I want to do with my account in the long term and how I could integrate it into this site to sell prints etc.
To see my Imagefile page go to: http://www.theimagefile.com/web/nicklewis
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We were sat in a Pub garden that overlooked Newquay Harbour. Tina pointed at something that she thought was a seal. I told her it was probably a rock or a large clump of seaweed. I honestly thought thats what it was at first until the object vanished and appeared over on the other side of the Harbour. I was now getting worried that my eyesight was on the blink or I had eaten too many pasties and my brain was starting to malfunction.
I reached for my bloody large 50-500 lens and attached it to my camera and scanned the harbour for signs of life. The large rock suddenly developed the ability to swim and had spawned three other rocks. I rapidly realised that I must listen to my wife more often, as she was spot on, they were indeed seals.
We decided to gulp our drinks back and descend the steep combination of road and steps down to the harbour. We got there and our marine mammal friends were still there, in fact they weren’t at all in a rush and even happily volunteered themselves as willing models for my camera. All of the sudden a big crowd had gathered to watch them and a mysterious guy turned up in a Range Rover, hopped out with a bigger lens than me (now thats not on), took one shot, got back in and drove off!! Bizarre!!
Here are some more shots - Please click on each to view larger version and use the cursor keys to flick through them all.
Enjoy!
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