Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Scotland, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Castle is built upon the remains of an extinct volcano, originally known as Lookout Hill but now known as Castle Rock, which has been used as a stronghold for over 3000 years. View Print Options
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Sage, Tyne Bridge and Newcastle upon Tyne river quayside. View print options
Reflection
This shot of Lake Matheson in New Zealand is by far one of my earliest images, captured at the start of the millennium using a consumer SLR and this magical, nearly forgotten stuff called film. I sometimes find it hard to comprehend how the technology behind the making of my images has changed over the [...]
Picture of the month | December 2011
December was quite a good month for photography. It started with a trip to the picturesque city of Lincoln and ended with a return visit to my real hometown city, Birmingham. I’ll be honest, I don’t tend to head back to the midlands very often these days, and when I do it tends to [...]
Picture of the month | November 2011
November was a great month for photography, hence the rather late posting of this picture of the month! I love the winter months for photography. Whilst the days may be short, the available light is often warm and flattering which simply means that I can continue to shoot throughout the day. So perhaps it is [...]
Picture of the month | October 2011
Last month was a fairly quiet month for photography as work continued on my next book, Black Light. Whilst this meant yet more time behind the computer screen (especially as I had to write all of the text, design the book and then distribute it through various partners) I did have a full week put [...]
2012 Workshop bookings now being taken
We are pleased to announce that the 2012 workshop schedule has just been announced at www.jasonfriend.co.uk. Next year, in addition to the group workshops where we will revisit some of our favorite locations such as Dunstanburgh Castle, the Farne Islands and a long awaited return to St Mary’s Lighthouse, we are now also offering photography [...]
Picture of the month | September 2011
September was an extremely busy month for private tuition sessions which meant that the time available for me to practise my own photography was limited. However, I did have a few days reserved for a trip to the Lake District prior to a three day private workshop in Cumbria which I had been looking forward [...]
Picture of the month | August 2011
After the drought of image creation which was July, I was lucky enough to experience a glutton of photographic opportunities during August. Of course this was not an accidental occurrence espescially as I had long planned a couple of overnight trips for August, safe in the knowledge that my first exhibition would at last be [...]
Newcastle exhibition now open!
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Keeping it cool
Photographers often strive to capture the warmest light possible, especially true if their preferred genre is landscape photography. This often means reaching a location before dawn and waiting for the golden hues of light as a direct consequence of the first rays of the rising sun. This action is often reversed as we catch the [...]
Picture of the month | July 2011
I’m ashamed to say that July was a really quiet month for photography. To be honest the work required to organise my forthcoming exhibition has totally taken me by surprise, unfortunately meaning far more time being spent in the office than I would normally hope for. There is an upside though. Everything is in place [...]
The Great Print Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of the ‘Time & Light’ photography exhibition at the F-Stop Gallery in Newcastle next month, we are going to offer everyone a chance to own a 9″ x 6″ giclee print from the forthcoming print collection. This is not a competition as such, as everyone will be a winner, and entry [...]
The Great Print Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of the ‘Time & Light’ photography exhibition at the F-Stop Gallery in Newcastle next month, we are going to offer everyone a chance to own a 9″ x 6″ giclee print from the forthcoming print collection. This is not a competition as such, as everyone will be a winner, and entry [...]
D-Day
So the day of reckoning has finally arrived! I have spent the last few hours narrowing down over ten years of work to just a few images for the opening Newcastle upon Tyne exhibition. I am not going to spoil the surprise by showing you the images now, you will have to wait until the [...]
timeandlight.co.uk website launched
It has been a busy week preparing for the forthcoming newcastle upon tyne photography exhibition. Successful marketing is going to make or break this project, and as such I want to get it right. So the first step this week was to make sure that a press release had been distributed to both local and [...]
‘Time and Light’ minisite launched
Well the countdown has begun and it is now less than six weeks until my first ever exhibition launches at the F-Stop gallery in Newcastle. I really cant believe that it has been almost nine months since I first decided to undertake this project. I don’t know why but I felt the time had come [...]
Picture of the month | June 2011
I consider colour to be something of a crutch in the image making process. In someways it is essential for the creation of a successful image yet in others it can be something of an hindrance, an unwelcome distraction from the core elements of the scene which could be used to compose a shot with [...]
Stock Photography – Is it a numbers game?
The common wisdom for contributing images to stock photography libraries is that it is a ‘numbers game’. Simply put, the more images that you have represented by a library will produce the greatest return on your investment. After ten years of contributing images to a number of libraries, and some 6000 images later, I have [...]
Monochrome Returns
Nearly fifteen years ago I attended my first every photography class. At that time I had no desire to become a professional photographer, or even shoot colour, all I wanted to do was to learn how to photograph and print good black and white pictures. There was absolutely no hint at that time of how [...]
Picture of the month | May 2011
I had been looking forward to May for a while mainly due to a planned return to the Scottish Highlands to capture images of the splendour of the Cairngorms National Park for a forthcoming book to be published by Halsgrove. The weather at the start of the month was simply fantastic so imagine my dismay [...]
Picture of the month | April 2011
April has seen me capturing far less landscape images as I have been turning my attention to taking macro shots of the signs on new life all around us as the incredible spring weather continues. All of this good weather has helped to speed along the season with many flowers and trees showing the characteristics [...]
Picture of the month | March 2011
March arrived with a distinct feeling of spring being just around the corner. To many photographers this brings fresh opportunities after the long winter months. For me it was a case of digging out my macro gear and heading out to the local woodlands, as well as revisiting locations that I have photographed during the [...]