I was delighted when neighbour Anne agreed to have her portrait taken. I don’t know her really well and she appears quite shy but she arrived at the pre-arranged time and I must say we had a brilliant chat about all sorts of interesting topics whilst I clicked away. Anne said she didn’t like photographs […]
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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