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Canterbury Cathedral and Leaves
05th December 2011 - 1 comment
The first five images here were taken in Canterbury Cathedral early in November.
The two images of leaves were taken in my garden in mid November.
New Home Page photographs
27th November 2011 - 0 comments
I've changed the set of 6 that cycle on my home page for a selection taken over the last few months. They now include some in colour too!
New photographs from 4 week road trip in the US
19th November 2011 - 1 comment
I undertook a 4 week road trip in September 2011 - starting near San Francisco. A selection of images from the trip is now on my website - linked here. Most of the photography was in Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. I've included a selection of colour images taken with my digital cameras alongside my more usual black and white film images. It's difficult to resist the attractions of digital capture as the technology improves, but the slow paced large format film camera brings most satisfaction.
Six new photographs of the Glamorgan Coast
25th July 2011 - 1 comment
After my previous visit about 18 months ago I've now been back and added six new images from a very productive day on the Glamorgan Coast just to the east of Llantwit Major. They're the first six - linked here
More in Clouds and Sky
25th June 2011 - 0 comments
A couple of new colour images - "22 degree Halo and Buzzard" and "Mid Summer Sunset".
B&W is not active at present - but I have a new project in mind ...
New in Clouds & Skies
12th June 2011 - 0 comments
Several new pictures added to "Clouds & Skies".
Six new images
08th May 2011 - 1 comment
Six new images added to the New Black & White images gallery. They are the final three for Chastleton House, two of potter Toff Milway working in his studio workshop at Conderton, and one from a recent visit to Brittany. They are repeated in their respective galleries and will remain in the "New" section until there is more work to replace them.
Chastleton House Project now complete
01st May 2011 - 0 comments
My project for The National Trust to photograph throughout the interior of Chastleton House is now complete. The album containing over 50 prints will be on view at Chastleton House from Wednesday 4th May 2011.
The Photographer's Ephemeris
07th March 2011 - 0 comments
One of the new additions (linked here) to my Chastleton House portfolio required me to plan ahead for when the sun would fall directly down the length of the Long Gallery and be at a specific elevation for the window shadow to reach far enough into the room for the composition I'd envisaged. I used a superb piece of free software - The Photographer's Ephemeris - to calculate the date and time I needed to be there. It told me exactly the date and time for my picture. Unfortunately the exact date and time was overcast as were the next several days. The photograph I managed to take was almost a week after the ideal date when the sun's altitude was higher thereby shortening the shadow in the room. I still like the picture and know that if I could have had a clear day on the date The Photographer's Ephemeris told me I'd have been even happier. Now, if only the software could arrange for there to be clear skies when I need them! I must have a word with the software developer.
Last Chastleton House Images
07th March 2011 - 0 comments
The final few Chastleton House images are now complete. It's now time to start the assembly of the new album for display at Chastleton House.
Chastleton House - nearing completion
01st November 2010 - 0 comments
It's the start of November 2010 and I have almost completed photographing the interiors at Chastleton House. The remaining few pictures require particular lighting, for example low winter sun in the late afternoon, so will be done as and when possible. There are now over 50 photographs taken throughout the house (linked here).
Chastleton House Project - half way there
10th September 2010 - 0 comments
I've reached about the midpoint in my Chastleton House project with 32 images completed. All are shown on my Chastleton House page (linked here). Arriving at the halfway stage has been happened much sooner than I anticipated a month ago when I started. However, the remainder will take much longer amd will extend well into the period that the house is closed to the public for the winter.
Chastleton House - National Trust
19th August 2010 - 1 comment
I've agreed an exciting and challenging commission with the National Trust to photograph the interiors throughout Chastleton House in Oxfordshire. So far I've made two visits. Images from the first visit are now on my website - (linked here). More will be added as the project progress over the next few months.
Colour Gallery Reorganisation
20th July 2010 - 0 comments
I've started a new portfolio - Clouds & Skies - in colour (linked here). Just a couple to start with but I hope to add a few more soon. This has entailed creating a separate portfolio for my colour pictures from Umbria. In future I'll create a new portfolio for each new colour topic.
New 'New Black and White Images' portfolio
08th June 2010 - 0 comments
I've added a new portfolio page where I'll add my new black and white work (linked here). I'll leave images there for a few weeks before (hopefully) replacing them with more new work. These new images will also be placed in their appropriate porfolio pages. I'll not be adding new colour work here - they'll go straight to my colour portfolio (linked here).
Addition of Digital Colour
08th June 2010 - 1 comment
Finally, I've decided that I'll show some of my work in colour taken with my Canon 7D. I've been taking colour pictures for the last 45 years but they are mostly for family or holiday shots. This is not about to take over from my B&W work - I'm a dyed-in-the-wool black and white film photographer. But that's not to preclude an occasional excursion into colour using digital capture. I have a new portfolio (linked here) which in the first instance just contains work from Umbria earlier this year. In time I'll add other work into seperate portfolios.
New set of Home Page images
07th June 2010 - 0 comments
They've remained unchanged for getting on for a year, so time to refresh my home page image set. Though I have kept the church window - one of my personal favourites.
New Portfolio / Gallery - Glamorgan Coast
07th June 2010 - 0 comments
I've now embarked on a project to photograph along the beautiful and unusual Glamorgan Coast, particularly between Ogmore-by-Sea and the power station at Aberthaw. I've opened a new gallery (linked here) on my website to include all images from that project. I'll add images after each visit - assuming I've managed to find something to show. Once the project is complete I'll review the content and perhaps cull some to limit the total to no more than two dozen images.
First new images for over 6 months
30th May 2010 - 0 comments
My large format photography has been very quiet over the last 6 months. I've finally got around to processing a few images from Ironbridge and a few from the start of a new project photographing along the Glamorgan Coast. I intend for this project to become very much more active ... The new images are placed in their respective galleries but can been seen together at the top of the 'Latest Additions' page, ... here, or follow the link at the bottom of my 'Home' page.
Photographs in Cotswold Life Magazine
23rd September 2009 - 0 comments
A 2-page spread selection of my photographs taken whilst walking the Cotswold Way have been published in the October 2009 edition of the Cotswold Life magazine.
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