Category: Photography
Wood carving sculpture workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Brooding ‘summer’ rain clouds managed to hold off for a few hours on Saturday, just long enough for me to poke my camera lens about at a wood carving sculpture workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The workshop was well attended, its populous sprinkled with a talented group of attentive sculptors taking on varying levels of…
Orb Community Arts at FEVA 2010
This Sunday I had the pleasure of being invited to provide a spot of live event photography for an all day arts and music festival hosted by Orb Community Arts in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Orb ran the event as part of the FEVA Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts 2010 and it took place at…
Stone carving workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
You’d never have known it’s the middle of Summer by looking at the sky above Bretton Country Park in mid-July: a patchwork of grey to black clouds with occasional bright blue holes puncturing the otherwise oppressive weather. It was as if Summer, disgruntled by the miserable forecast, was trying to tear holes in an unwanted…
Degree show, Manchester Metropolitan University: photos published
A quick follow up to the original Manchester Met University degree show (MMU) post: I’ve just got my hands on the published embroidery exhibition guide which includes 40+ photographs I took for the talented final year Embroidery students. I’m really proud to have taken part in the process of documenting the student’s work, it was…
New HQ, Yorkshire Air Ambulance
Any Yorkshire man or woman worth their salt will know two things: how to mix batter to make one of the most delicious and mandatory accompaniments to the perfect Sunday dinner and secondly who Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) are. If you aren’t from Yorkshire, then you should start your research on flat caps, whippets and…
3 tips to get more out of your point and shoot camera
About six months ago I was asked to give a presentation on photography at an organisation I was working for at the time. As luck would have it, I’d taken part in some rigorous workshops on giving effective presentations so was all set to test my new skills in how to address an audience and…
