Tag: event
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…
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…
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…
