Over The Lake  – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Over The Lake – Letting The Paint do It’s Thing (AKA so quick it feels like cheating…)

Reading Time: 2 minutes I got to searching last night for a bit of guidance on painting dark value images in watercolour, and stumbled upon this website. Wandering away from my initial search there are a lot of paintings in a very impressionist style – very much against fussing, 

One Colour a Day – Week 5

One Colour a Day – Week 5

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Week 5 of my One Colour a Day project. I have been ill half the week and managing not much more than the odd bit of Train Simulator, and so for no real reason other than that these are some train inspired colours. The final 

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just a traditional Christmas post, after the tide of children and relatives have subsided. It’s been a nice Christmas, and here are the proofs of the cards that we made this year. Needless to say, Father Christmas brought various nice art materials. So there will 

Coronabaggins

Coronabaggins

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This carrier bag has been blowing about the garden all day. Inspired by some images on the internet showing a world full of viral particles (in a very “Blood Music” kind of style) I present you… Coronabaggins. It’s dangerous out there folks.

Images from The Underground

Images from The Underground

Reading Time: < 1 minutes After a certain amount of thought, I have decided to cull the Images From The Underground Website. There’s a few reasons for this – to be fair, in the days of social media, the people who I would like to engage with this project do 

Remedy Post Apocalypse

Remedy Post Apocalypse

Reading Time: 2 minutes Another Quick Images from The Underground update. The Latest Remedy, with Lab4 playing which was of course a treat for me!

Far From Home

Far From Home

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have a dreadful confession.  Actually it’s probably not a confession, as it may well have become clear to those who follow anything I do artistically, and also I blame my son. But… I am a train geek. I think the polite term for this 

Further Experiments with Film

Further Experiments with Film

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve just got the second film back from expreiments with the new practika camera. Again, I am blown away by how these look, the feel of them is very different from digital and far more forgiving of exposure. The first set here are from an 

Sunniva Brunel Band

Sunniva Brunel Band

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was commissioned to create these shots for Sunniva Brunel’s project, shooting their practice sessions at the College of Music. This was worrking low light, no flash obviously, trying to get shots atmospheric shots while being unobtrusive. I worked with the 50mm f/1.8 lens at 

Six Vignettes

Six Vignettes

Reading Time: 2 minutes vignette /viːˈnjɛt,vɪˈnjɛt/ noun For some reason I love the idea of a vignette in photography. A short visual statement which holds so much, but yet uncovered. Going back over the years shooting, there’s always a few odd images that have not made it into bigger 

Jon Snow

Jon Snow

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Another quick one. Channel 4 have just done a live broadcast of the Channel 4 news from the refectory at Leeds University, and of course a quick chance to be in the audience was too good to miss. The rationale for being broadcast from a 

Knaresborough

Knaresborough

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following on from my recent water pictures in Kirkstall I have had a further play with the neutral density filters and slow shutters in Knaresborough. The first set of these are just off Riverside, under the castle. There’s not as much movement in the water