Category: Photography
Wedding Bells
Wedding photography really is all it’s cracked up to be: exhausting, rewarding, stressful and not for the feint-hearted. A few friends have asked me to photograph their marriages for a couple of years now but since going it alone as a freelancer, I’ve developed a new fascination with seeing what the fuss is all about…
Kinetic sculpture workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Who remembers the opening scene to 1985 classic blockbuster Back to the Future? For the uninitiated: a camera pans across a messy work surface, taking in all manner of clockwork contraptions and electronic wizardry – cogs spin and gears grind shortly before diminutive skateboarding actor Michael J Fox is reluctantly roused from his sleep by…
Dry stone walling workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
[quote]”I’ve heard it’s a really skilled job that…”[/quote] I’d wager that’s probably one of the most common statements to emanate from city dwellers taking leisurely strolls in the countryside, but I’ll raise my bet and speculate that few people ever get to see the process happening right in front of them. Well on the 15th…
Smoking portraits
If you ask any photographer what their pet hate is (aside from people who don’t like having their photograph taken) it’s more than likely to be that sinking feeling after having let a photo opportunity slip by – either by not having a camera to hand or passing it by without thinking to take a…
Dancing in the dark
“… ready … GO!” a voice yells out of the darkness, echoed by the metallic clunk of a shutter slamming into action. That’s my cue to begin a chaotic five second dance for a subterranean light experiment. No I’m not an extra in a new Josef Fritzl musical, I’m in the basement of Temple Works…
Art as environment at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Given the changeable late summer weather, it was touch and go as to whether we’d have any takers for the Art as Environment family workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, running as a ‘drop in’ event for passing children and adults. Luckily, a school trip of young children were keen to get involved with all the…
