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 [...]
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 | 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 [...]
The Lensbaby experience
Recently the nice folks at Lensbaby sent me a Canon mount version of their Lensbaby Composer with accompanying Optic set, for me to put through it paces in the great outdoors. The first question in my mind was simple – Would the Composer be sharp enough for my critical picture editors? Anybody who has heard [...]
The Tyneside Experiments
Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead Millennium Bridge and Baltic Gallery. The last few weeks, I have found myself making the most of our outstanding north-east weather to continue work on my forthcoming ‘Perfect Northumberland’ and ‘Spirit of Northumberland’ books. However, last week I decided to take a break from the projects to revisit one of [...]