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.
...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Subjects and Styles
Abstract and Experimental – Wedding and Corporate – Documentary – Event – Film Photography – Fine Art – Landscape – Nature – Nightlife
Phone Photography – Portrait – Quickshots – Railway – Still Life – Still Life – Street – Urban – Vernacular – Visual Research
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…
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…
Summer Fêtes
Reading Time: 2 minutes …I have been shooting at the Elliot’s Footprint summer fete in Meanwood; a fundraiser for the charity, which supports parents after the loss of a child.
Though I had a lovely time, I have to say this was one of the most difficult shoots in have done for a long time…
Le Grand Depart
Reading Time: 2 minutes …so Le Grand Depart on my doorstep was always going to be something I’d take a look at.
But a bit of a challenge it was, as I had the small toddler in tow…
More Waterfront Adventures
Reading Time: 2 minutes …long term project to shoot the canal network in West Yorkshire. Some of this I manage to do with the toddler in tow, as these in Wakefield, where there is also a lovely play park outside the Hepworth Gallery.
I will be making these into a book some time. What is interesting is the differences in my editing style …
Waterfront Festival
Reading Time: < 1 minutes This event takes place in Leeds on the waterfront each year. I’ve been to this event a few times, and there’s not a lot more to shoot that I haven’t already, but I did take a nice panorama of Leeds Dock.
Temple Works
Reading Time: 2 minutes …designed by Joseph Bonomi the Younger and built by John Marshall between 1836 and 1840, it boasts a two acre main space, and apparently is pretty unique (at least for the time) in that it is held up under both compression and tension.
On the tour, in the main room we we hard-hatted and required to walk to a ‘safe area’ without stopping, just in case anything fell…
Through Moving Windows
Reading Time: 3 minutes I spend a lot of time travelling on busses and trains. Looking out of the windows provides a unique view of the surroundings which is detached and dispassionate, a different reality. You see places that you may walk through on different days, or that you …
365
Reading Time: 2 minutes …one image every day for an entire year. It is often seen as a kind of rite of passage for a photographer.
In the end I had to abandon this, not because of taking the images, but keeping up with regular editing and uploading proved hard…
Shooting Strangers
Reading Time: 8 minutes …photographing a stranger can constitute harassment. In general, harassment requires repetition. There are some cases where it may not – for example if I were to I sneak up behind someone at ground level to capture an ‘upskirt’ this could clearly and rightly be defined as sexual harassment. But the defining factor here is that the person concerned would have an expectation that, although they are in public, the public do not have a reasonable right to take picture of their gusset…
Photocamp 2013
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s been a busy weekend here. I must confess I was a little apprehensive about all this. Not really by choice, but simply because I haven’t really found many people as obsessed as I am with taking pictures , much of my photography has been …