Yearly Archives: 2013

My first exhibition private view

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Thursday was the private viewing of Albion, The Shed Photography’s exhibition at the Cock n Bull Gallery in Shoreditch. It was super to see my images on the wall, especially my London City shot, blown up huge and attracting attention, handily placed as it was next to the champagne.

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If you are in town any time between now and 4th March, do consider popping by. You can always treat yourself to some beautifully authentic English cuisine in The Tramshed afterwards. Perhaps we could meet for a coffee?
My other exhibited images:

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Dunstanburgh Castle

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Storm Approaching Birling Gap

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Cobb Cottages

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Who, or what, are you?

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Medicine for the Soul
See here for a walk through of the complete exhibition.

The delicate art of dumping your camera on the ground

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dewI haven’t been around much in the last week as I have had my first ever bout of flu!  Needless to say, I haven’t been taking photographs, so here are a couple of shots from last year, revealing how unkind I can be to my camera.  It doesn’t seem to mind being dumped onto wet grass, thanks perhaps to its weather seals.  I love the unpredictability of this sort of shooting.

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Rhubarb, Celery and Pomegranate

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fruity triptych
What a lot of fun I have had today photographing fruit on my lightbox.  I liked the colours of this particular combination of healthy food.
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My little A4 lightbox was a nice investment.  I think it set me back £50 but it has repaid every penny.
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I love the curliness of rhubarb and celery strings.
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And the rhubarb’s bold, graphic stripes.
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And best of all, the fridge is now full of delicious fruit for endless weekend snacking.  More foody madness tomorrow.

Moongazing Concorde

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concorde

Instead of a moongazing hare, a moongazing concorde.  Except that its windows/eyes are covered in snow.

Weybridge

This 40% model of the famous aircraft used to be at the entrance to Heathrow Airport but, with the demise of its full sized brethren, the model was decommissioned.  It now stands sentinel at the entrance to Brooklands Museum and Mercedes Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey.

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My first exhibition

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exhibition

I am excited to have some of my images included in this forthcoming exhibition. If you are in the neighbourhood, I would love it if you could pop by.  Follow this link for more information.

I don’t yet know which images have been selected by the exhibition curators.  Here are a few of the possibilities:

Dorset

Last Light at Kimmeridge

Dorset

The Cobb at Lyme

Northumberland

Dunstanburgh Castle

cityscape

View from City Point, Moorgate.

East Sussex

Storm Approaching Birling Gap

Lyme Regis

Cobb Cottages

Jersey

Blue hour, La Corbiere

If my images don’t float your boat, there will be lots of others that might, and some beautiful paintings and sculpture.

Small White

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macro

I would dearly love to photograph butterflies in flight but this is no easy task.  Their flight path is ridiculously erratic and their wings flap right over their heads making focus on the eyes almost impossible.

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It’s teasing me

I tried to capture this one for a long time one day last summer.  I can almost imagine it’s looking at me thinking: shall I, shan’t I?

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Seriously dodgy, but it’s a start

This is the best shot I got that day.  Yes, it’s not terribly good, but at least you can tell it’s a butterfly 😉  I will try again this year. Although I have planted for insects, my garden sees very few butterflies, but a wildflower park has recently been planted not too far away and it will hopefully be open to the public for the first time this spring.  Come on Spring, hurry up!