I’d not come across this photographer before and was alerted to him by Tomasz Trzebiatowski of Frames magazine who sends out a daily Photosnack email with a recommended introduction. Adrian has focused on creating stark, minimal, and hauntingly beautiful monochromatic images and I love them! What’s even more valuable than looking at his galleries is […]
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I was invited to do a talk on photography at Appleton le Moors WI and afterwards was approached by Nadine Cooper to see if I was interested in photographing a choir she was involved in. There was the possibility of an article in Yorkshire Life in the new year and she needed more images. Of
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Anna’s aunt, potter Liz Bailey, had featured in my Women of Kirkbymoorside portrait project and so I was pleased when Anna got in touch asking if I could create one for her. Anna is based in London and is a singer with a BBC choir and is working her way into publishing – the Bailey’s
Never been to this lovely seaside town before so enjoying exploring the photographic opportunities it offers. Traditional image of beach huts but a black and white one too, I like the way the road arrow points down the line of huts: This and the ones below are from the port area. It’s really interesting so
I’d been to the garden a week or so to take some staff and trustee portraits but having a little free time, and with the sun shining, I decided to pop back, have a proper look around and take some photographs of flowers at Helmsley Walled Garden, instead of people. It looks amazing at the
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We went to see Sara in the week of her birthday. Not much time for photography but got a few which are ok’ish on the theme urban graffiti as we walked around the city. And a couple more from the city walkabout: This one would have been better with a single silhouette in the centre
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Delighted to be asked to take portraits of the staff and some trustees so went along today. Normal understandable reluctance to have a picture taken but we had some fun. I’d like to go back to take more as it was a little rushed and I think there’s a good opportunity to get some interesting
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For quite some time I’ve wanted to make a portrait of Mick, he passes our house fairly frequently and my wife knows him from chapel. He has a fairly stern look about him so it took me a while to pluck up courage but seeing my wife one day chatting to him as she was
