6th September 2011
To me pinhole photography is going back to the basics of photography. Not just because the equipment can be cheap and hand made, but because it proves the point that it doesn’t matter which equipment you use to take good photographs. It’s all about the photograph itself and using the tools at hand to achieve [...]
6th August 2011
The last of my sister-in-laws got married this summer and I was once again ready to record the whole day in photographs for the couple to treasure. This time the wedding was up in beautiful Northumberland, one of my favourite counties in the UK due to its outstanding landscapes and seascapes. The ceremony was held [...]
1st August 2010
It was a great day at my sister-in-law’s wedding last Friday. The ceremony was held at the beautiful Bedern Hall in York and the reception was at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall. As you’d expect from venues in York, both halls are full of history and character. Bedern Hall is a small gem of a hall and used to be linked to the York Minster and was the dining hall for the College of Vicars Choral from the 14th to the 17th century.
28th July 2010
I’m having a few days off my day job to prepare for my sister-in-law’s wedding on this Friday in the beautiful and historic city of York. But while the city will provide a gorgeous backdrop to the photographs, it doesn’t come without it’s challenges. Being a very old city, York wasn’t built for cars and [...]
4th January 2010
A few years ago I was commissioned to take some seascape photographs of Northumberland and especially of lighthouses along the coast line. St. Mary’s Lighthouse is one of the easiest to access, but also one of the prettiest lighthouses on the coastline, so I decided to head there first. The plan was to get to [...]
22nd December 2009
When I was younger my Dad always used to say that there are 3 things that you could look at forever and lose all sense of time because they are always moving and changing shape – these are the waves in water, fire dancing and the clouds. Clouds have always fascinated me, but when it [...]
10th December 2009
Before taking up photography, I used to do more traditional art with oil and acrylic paints, mixing them with all other sorts of media; I remember glueing card board, news paper and all sorts of stuff onto the paper, mixing acrylic paints and water colours and using different tools not just brushes to create different [...]
12th October 2009
I’m often asked to look at photos to provide feedback on how to improve them. This is often not a simple task as there are so many ways to look at a photograph and so many ways to do it differently, which does not always necessarily mean better. However, when the main subject of the [...]
29th September 2009
I like old churches with their high ceilings. You cannot help but admire the effort that has been put into making those magnificent arches and intricate details over the centuries. I love taking another point of view to other photographers and ceilings can be just that. They can provide a unique yet interesting view to [...]
6th September 2009
My sister-in-law asked me to photograph her wedding on the 28th August 2009. The service was held at the beautiful St. Mary’s church in Nunthorpe-in-Cleveland and the wedding breakfast and reception at Judges Country House Hotel in Kirklevington Hall, near Yarm. The weather held up and we didn’t get the feared rain, but enjoyed a [...]