Wingwalkers Promotional Band Portrait

I recently did a quick little promo shoot during a rehearsal for upcoming local band, Wingwalkers. Their rehearsal space was in a school hall, so I had a bit of a challenge on my hands finding the darkest, plainest background available (ended up going with a dark blue, large print curtain) so that I could isolate the band members by darkening it out in post. It's always fun going into a shoot not knowing what sort of set up I'll be working with and being able to push my skills to figure out how to create the picture that I and the client want.

Bridgnorth Castle Gardens - 04/03/2016

 

Bridgnorth Castle Gardens

 

Black and White Landscape photography II - 05/02/2016

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.” 
- Robert Frost, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Light testing - 22/12/15

In December, I was tasked with creating some head shots for a local theatre company, and so of course I had to persuade Rory into sitting for me so I could test the lighting set up before the shoot. Thankfully she responds quite well to bribery.

A Moody Morning in Walsall

 

It was a considerably gloomy day at Walsall Arboretum this morning, but the foggy weather meant that we got to have the playground all to ourselves for a while.

Analogue

When I first started taking pictures, I spent much of my time in the darkroom since anything digital was vastly beyond my affordability. I can't say I was ever very good at processing film or printing -because I wasn't- but I loved my time I spend alone in the dark, and that feeling that came with seeing the picture I'd hoped I'd taken, for the first time as the image bloomed over the paper.

But then I got my DSLR.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the thing. I love the instantaneous of it and the fact I don't have to spend a small fortune in chemicals, paper and film just to take a snapshot. It's allowed me to grow much faster as a photographer, because I didn't have to be so cautious or thoughtful about each picture I took. But I do feel I've lost some of my connection to the process, for the same reason.

Over time I've accumulated SO many film cameras, the kind that would have got me so excited had I had them when I was seventeen, and as much as I make grand plans to dust them off and go out experimenting, these cameras seem to have become more like ornamental relics to me now, up on a shelf to be admired almost as art in themselves rather than as the tools to create it. 

It's an awful shame.

from little acorns

Leo

Ginger Tom's always seem so grouchy

The Milky Way

In September we went to stay in some cabins for the weekend which was just perfect for star gazing. Or, at least it would have been had I remembered my tripod!

B & W

Dew Drops

Black & White Wednesday

Autumn

So much for the Summer Holidays

There are lots of things that I like about Britain, but the weather isn't one of them,

B&W

Everybody loves a bassist.

Father's Day : Catch up VII

We celebrated Father's Day

Toads : Catch up VI

In June the toads migrated through our garden.

Chub : Catch up IV

Rory continues to be an endless source of wonderful and amazing.

Black & White

Black & White Wednesday

Black & White Wednesday

Shadows