A Meanwood Night
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome moody pictures. Just a few little shots from a quick wak round the top of my street after dak It’s always good to remember the images on your doorstep that you have not taken yet.
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Subjects and Styles
This is a parent catagory for posts relating to different subjects and styles in my photographic practice. The natue of Wordpress means you may stumble here accidentally rather than on to the more specific catagories. Feel free to look around while you are here.
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
The Full Works
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery year, Beaver Works which is one of the venues I shoot at regularly, hosts a ‘Mad Friday’ party, bringing together many of the events which take place there throughout the year. This year the event fell on my birthday, so I had to go, …
Shutter Dragging in the Woods
Reading Time: 2 minutesI went for a little walk up in the woodland of Meanwood park the other day, and decided to limit myself to my Canon 1000D and a simple 50mm prime lens. I did a few portraits of my family, but also had a little play …
Spooky Shoot
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 …
Fine Art Monochrome – Nature Fantasies
Reading Time: 2 minutesThese 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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, …
Hyde Park Unity Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’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
Reading Time: 2 minutesTook 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
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…