Portraits

I was delighted to spend some time with a friend and her mother last week. We went together to a couple of locations which were meaningful to them and I did my best to capture their wonderful relationship. Such an honour.

How lovely to follow my last post, Two brothers, with another familial portrait session. Sasha and Elena were visiting Kirkbymoorside with family over the weekend to take part in the town’s 10K annual fun run. I know them through their grand dad John, who is a fellow allotment holder, and last year I photographed them

Rachel and I are currently on a short holiday in a rural part of Nottinghamshire and near the artist’s studio, mentioned in the last post, is a house in slight disrepair and an overgrown garden. I struck up conversation with the elderly owner who was outside with his gorgeous golden retriever dogs. After 20 mins

Ages ago local yoga instructor Liz Vowles asked me to do some headshots of her for a website and social – eventually we got around to it. You can find out more about Liz by visiting her beautiful website.

My good friend and collaborator Libby Pearson popped by yesterday for a few headshots as she’s in the early stages of developing her own website. A variety of shots were needed to reflect her many skills so we made a start. The professional businesswoman look. With glasses – we did some more serious ones but

Couldn’t resist the corny title but I was at York Racecourse today with the Hull York Medical School assisting with the First Year OSCE exams. Bit of a stretch to say assisting as I was one of the reserve role players/ simulated patients and was not called upon, so free to create some portraits! Two

Just this single image created using several overlays. I was given a book featuring the work of artist/ photographer/ sculptor David Hiscock some time ago and didn’t, at first, relate to it at all. But as I have experimented more with overlays and making cyanotypes I’m getting more into his imagery. The one I have