It was great to take the mobile studio out on the road this weekend for an anniversary booking. The couple were celebrating 60 years of marriage and we really enjoyed being the official photographers for this momentous occasion. Tina has started to make use of my old D200 and we decided to both work on [...]
April 2009
I am starting to look into ways that we (as in us bloggers) can start up what I would like to call, a “comment circle”. Simply post a comment to this post with details of your blog, I will approve your comments, visit your blog and leave comments of my own there. Hopefully this will [...]
Alamy recently contacted all contributors regarding deletion of images taken of National Trust properties. This includes images taken on NT land even if they aren’t obvious as such. In other words could a photo of a flower in a NT garden contravene these rules? Sounds like it does if you read between the lines.
I have some space on my web server that is going spare. I therefore would like to offer you blog web hosting for £9.99 per month or if you prefer £100 per annum. A £10 setup fee is required to cover setup and domain registration. I shall be limiting this offer to only so many [...]
[image title="Farnborough Abbey - Twilight" size="medium" id="2694" align="center" alt="Farnborough Abbey at twilight" ] Farnborough Abbey always draws me back. It is only a short stroll from where we live and it has a certain air of austerity about it. Its beautiful and at the same time slightly sinister. Quite why I would find an Abbey [...]
[image title="Knowlton Church, Dorset" size="medium" id="2681" align="center" alt="Knowlton Church, Dorset" ] I always keep a list of locations that I wish to photograph, so that as I travel around it is always possible to stop off somewhere and set up a good shot. On this occasion we were travelling back home from Dorset and were [...]
I am compiling a collection of archive images to publish here. In the meantime here is a top 5 list of the best gigs I have photographed in terms of artists’ performance, the “memorable experience factor” and the atmosphere in general. No particular order by the way…