I came across the work of Eliza Tsitsimeaua on Instagram and she inspired me to have a go at overlays. I’d been aware of them and double exposures as a creative opportunity but never attempted them. Luminar makes it relatively easy so here are some of my early creations.
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It’s mid August and the moorland heather is at its purple best. We found ourselves in the vicinity of Ana’s Cross last night on a quest to return a pair of lost spectacles (long story …), so while Rach was sorting that I tried different angles to try and capture the monument in an interesting
Having lived in my town for nearly a quarter of a century (gulp) I do know quite a lot of the local people. And there’s some interesting characters – as there are in every community. Thinking about who I might ask next to be a portrait volunteer I thought of James. He regularly walks past
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Confined to my office for the evening I borrowed an old, probably 1930s, doll from my mother and messed around doing some slightly sinister shots – just for a bit of fun but useful lighting practice as always.
My day job, or at least the freelance work that I do the most, is training school students to develop their public speaking skills with a charity called Speakers Trust. Over the last six months or so I’ve been part of a team of trainers running workshops across Yorkshire and a couple of nights ago,
I returned to the REfUSE project (mentioned in the last post) to take some photos of their volunteers and the cafe. I had a great time and met some lovely people, both voluntreers and cafe visitors – it’s a fabulous project. I set up a backdrop and some simple continuous lights in the warehouse behind
Nikki, a friend who runs an amazing food waste project – check it out – needed some help at an outside catering event so I headed up to Durham yesterday. Here’s some pics: They have an amazing volunteering story to tell having recruited more than 200 volunteers to work with them. We’re looking at maybe
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Yes, finally daughter Sara has had her graduation ceremony, two years late due to COVID. So we went across to Liverpool on Wednesday night, had Thursday hanging out then the ceremony on the Friday. I enjoyed two early morning visits to the Albert Docks and also the Open Eye Photography Gallery where a nice little
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