Portraits

It was lovely to have a family volunteer to have their portraits taken last week. Caroline is the daughter of John whose wife Jean runs the town blog. That’s how the heard about the opportunity. She came with husband Marco and his daughters, Eleanor and Sonia. They were great and I hope they liked the […]

Just a few from the four days spent down in Leamington doing role plays as part of the VDS training for newly graduated vets.

I’ve been very impressed by the portraits of Jens Mathiasson and have enjoyed watching his masterclass on Frames (subscription only). So in need of people to practise on I put a call out on the Kirkby blog and was delighted when John and Rosemary got in touch. It’s John’s birthday coming up and they thought

As mentioned in the previous blog post an actress friend gave me some lighting equipment and I started practising portraits with a neighbour and my son. On Monday, Jane came around for her headshots and it went pretty well. She was great – very patient and posed like a pro. On her suggestion, after some

With an actress friend kindly giving me a couple of studio lights in exchange for me doing some headshots of her I thought I should start practising. I bought a backdrop and set up a mini studio at home. I’ve recently subscribed to Frames magazine and as well as the quarterly magazine they are running

I wasn’t aware of the Impressions Photographic Gallery in Bradford until I stumbled across their website quite by accident. Looking around a fairly recent exhibition by Carolyn Mendelsohn caught my attention as it was about portraiture with an interesting angle. Here’s the overview: Made over a period of 6 years, Being Inbetween is a series of powerful

I’m wanting to practise making portraits so am asking local people I know if they’d mind and today I got lucky with four saying yes. So it’s neighbour Din pictured above and then the three local joiners from West End.