Tag: Photography portfolio
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…
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…
