Sorry its been so long

Hi

Sorry its been so long since I posted last but time seems to have disapeared so fast this year. Having done a couple of joint exhibitions, an open studio event and covered some varied events including BMF Tail end which was great as was CLA Game Fair.


I have purchased equipment for "on site" printing so people can buy the mounted prints on the day so will be covering Proms and Black tie events as well as Equestrian Shows. My daughter staffed the printer and did the sales for me at our first proper event which was showjumping at Forest Edge Equestrian Centre in Norfolk. She did great so a big thanks to her.


Oh nearly forgot we have also had the launch of the charity calendar I shot and the local paper gave us the front cover and page 3 (approropraite I guess given the subject matter lol )


I promise ( yes I know I have promised before) to regularly update this blog so bear with me.

Here are a couple of the images from the calendar which are on sale now

Music and Dance Wisbech

Wisbech is holding a Music and dance festival tomorrow and sunday where Fenvac has an art exhibition in support of their event. Marian, Heather and myself have spent today setting up the display boards and hanging the work. We will be staffing the exhibition for the two days and I will be photographing the event for the council.

Here are some of the images I have hanging, some of which are "straight" and some altered in photoshop.

A number of the instruments I photographed are very old and are part of the Chatteris Museum Collection so thanks to them for the loan.

I have included a number of ballet shoe shots in the exhibition and a thanks to Lou for getting them for me

This final image is not in the exhibition but was uploaded by mistake and has nothing to do with music and dance but as I dont Know how to remove it I will leave it here lol

Journeys Exhibition

The joint exhibition I am holding with Marian entitled "Journeys" is currently running at March Library. Thanks to all of you who attended the " meet the artist" evening on tuesday. Some of you who live further afield have ask that I post some of the other images on which I have added some of my prose. This is something I have been thinking of doing for a while and after seeing the photographic work done by by niece Holly for her coursework I decided to do my own version and this exhibition seemed the ideal time to do it. Thanks to all of you who have been touched in some way by my words.

Holly was with me when I took some of the images and it was great to hear her critique of my work.

The images here were taken as far afield as Neath, Mumbles, Tenby,and Fenland.

I do hope you enjoy the images and the words, some images were inspired by the words and some words were inspired by the images

Journeys

Monday sees the start of my next joint exhibition entitled "Journeys" with Marian. This exhibition is representative of my journey through life with a first for me, this is the addition of some prose to some of my images. I have written some prose for years and untill now I havent felt happy to add them to the images. The "preview" or "meet the artist" evening is Tuesday from 6:30-8:30. Everyone is welcome at March library for this evening and the exhibition will run for two weeks.

Music and Dance Exhibition

I have been working on some images for an exhibtion with the theme of music and dance. This will be a Fenvac exhibition supporting Wisbech Councils Music and dance Festival on 1st and 2nd August. I havnt finally decided which images to use but here are two on my shortlist

The first is a ballet shoe that has the ribbons being blown by a fan, and the second is an American made banjo with has has a liquify effect and a few other things done to it.

Hope you enjoy the images

Busy Time

Its been a busy few weeks with the finishing of my joint exhibition with Marian and then this last weekend Fenvac has put on an exhibition of its members work. This was part of the towns Medieval Festival. Five of us put on workshops with Marian and Kath doing one on Art Journaling and mine being on Portrait Photography. With this over I have to get busy on my next exhibition with Marian entitled "Journeys" and overlapping that we are putting an exhibition of art based on music and dance as part of a nearby towns festival. Also managed to visit a reclamation yard to take some photos, a few of which I have posted here.

I love to see "found shapes" and photograph them and reclamation yards although at first glance look like things have just been dumped it is when you look closely you can see a sort of oder and lovely shapes and textures as well as interesting signs. Hope you enjoy the images

Twenty Five Yards

A couple of different pics to the ones I usually post and they were taken on the morning of Race for Life. The title refers to how far I had to walk from one picture to the next, I like the contrasts between the lovely river scene and the empty bottles left by some street life people. It also shows that we have to be always on the look out for images that appeal to us and often dont have to go far to get totally different shots. I find that if I go out with only certain shots I want in mind then I can easily miss what else is around. Its always best to have an open mind about what you will photograph but thats often easier said than done.

Anyway hope you enjoy the images.