Author: Christian

Spooky Shoot

Spooky Shoot

Reading Time: 2 minutes I spent the evening on Hallowe’en in a certain old Mill building in Holbeck where Photocamp Leeds had set up a spooky Hallowe’en shoot. I used this to experiment with a few different techniques – wide angle shots, using a Lensbaby for portraits, and off 

Hallowe’en in Space

Hallowe’en in Space

Reading Time: 2 minutes For one of the regular nights I shoot at, Remedy, Hallowe’en is the big one where they pull out all the stops to create a crazy and over the top event. I produced nearly 150 images from this event – this is just a small 

Tinnitus

Tinnitus

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just a quick one – after light night I ended up in a little techno night. Some girl (half) jokingly commented that it was her turf, so I thought I’d take a few shots  – mostly because I was a bit drunk and irritating, but 

Fine Art Monochrome – Nature Fantasies

Fine Art Monochrome – Nature Fantasies

Reading Time: 2 minutes These images came from one of my experiments – I put a roll on Ilford Pan F into a Fujica AX-1 SLR. Being a lovely fine grained slow film I thought I would play with some fine art style nature imagery. This is the result, 

Light Night

Light Night

Reading Time: 2 minutes An event I always try and get to is the annual Night Light in Leeds, where various art installations and projections take over the city.  I was all set to be really organised this year and plot a sensible path through the events, especially as 

Ela Orleans at Wharf Chambers

Ela Orleans at Wharf Chambers

Reading Time: 3 minutes I was invited down to this lovely intimate gig at Wharf Chambers to shoot a set of images capturing the night. Something a little more chilled than many of the events I shoot for this project – I almost didn’t include it on this site, 

Korg Electribe ER1-mkll

Korg Electribe ER1-mkll

Reading Time: 7 minutes Already owning the mk-I synth (EA-1) and sampler (ES-1) members of the electribe family I’ve been half on the look out for the drum machine for a while, so snapped this one up when it appeared for £139 in my local second hand shop. New 

Hyde Park Unity Day

Hyde Park Unity Day

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been ridiculously busy recently, rearranging and redecorating my house, so not had a lot of time to either shoot, or even get things on the site. But, slightly delayed, here are a few recent shots. Each year I try and do some shooting for 

Unity Day Warm Up

Unity Day Warm Up

Reading Time: 2 minutes Took my self and my kit down to the warm up party for this year’s Unity Day for a few beers and some shooting. Here’s a few shots from the night.

Uncle Bob

Uncle Bob

Reading Time: 2 minutes …I was an ‘Uncle Bob’ – as those in the wedding trade call the family member with a good camera.

There was a slight trauma when our toddler launched himself at the cake, and I actually saw the wedding photographer give me a knowing look…

Line Art

Line Art

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have been going through some old archives recently, as a part of a grand tidying up operation. I created these images about nearly 20 years or so ago now, to illustrate lyrics I was writing at the time. Very teenage angst kind of stuff which 

Amelia

Amelia

Reading Time: 3 minutes …the opportunity to share skills and play with new equipment, and also the chance to do some work with models.

This is Amelia – she said that she was relatively new to modelling and it was mostly a hobby for her, but i found her great to work with…