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.
Tag: Leeds
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 …
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, …
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…
Photocamp
Reading Time: 3 minutes…and some amazing parafunctional spaces which we used for model shoots, workshops and just making pictures of what we found.
I will post some more of the specific work I produced this weekend later…
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…
Photocamp 2013
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’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 …
ISS Flyby
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a photographer, like anything, there is always a possibility that nature will not play ball. I think this rates highly as one of those. The International Space Station actually passes quite frequently and visibly, but this was supposedly a good show, where it would …
Unity Day Program
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of my images featuring on the Programme for this year’s Hyde Park Unity Day… Be There.
Image Tutorial – ‘Heading North, Heading Home’
Reading Time: 8 minutesToday I would like to share a tutorial about how I made one of my recent images – ‘Heading North, Heading Home’. My idea for this image was something a little crunchy – not fully crisp and bright, but blending the dirt of a northern …
Hallowe’en, Mush
Reading Time: 2 minutesI got a tip off about this event, that a couple of contacts were playing at, that it may be worth a photography blag, which was successful. I’d not really been aware of Mush before, but it was a good blend of harder music and …