Dream the crow black dream…

The title of this blog is a line from Burn by The Cure, that features on the sound track for The Crow. Which incidentally, is what sprang to mind for one image from this shoot. Another image made “Rosegarden Funeral of Sores” pop into my head and that too could of easily been the title.

Looking back, what have we learnt…?

A rather ominous and prophetic sounding title perhaps? – but actually it’s not. This is not a doom laden blog commenting on the current state of the world etc. It’s actually more to do with the fact that I revisited some old work; nearly 5 years old to be a bit more specific. Now this

How many Z’s?… There’s 7!

So with a bit of time on my hands, I’ve finally got around to writing a blog post. Ironically, there are several things that have happened photographically over the last few months that I could have written about but didn’t. But now, I have the time and will make amends over the coming days… In

The Kelpies…(A slight return)

Actually, there’s nothing slight about it. I found myself going back in Falkirk on business, so I took my camera with me again. This time around I wanted to photograph the Kelpies at sunrise. And as luck would have it, on the morning I had planned to go over to The Helix – the skies

Business & Pleasure

Apparently, you shouldn’t mix the two. However, when business results in a three day, 600+ mile road trip and you discover that you’ll be within a couple of minutes of some potential photographic interest… why not? So, the camera got packed as well as the suit. Basically, I was staying about 2 minutes from The

Here we are again…

Every year I make the same old resolutions, promises , bold statements; call them what you will etc. Mostly about how I’m going to improve my photography next year and use this blog, and social media in general, more and so on and so on… And does it ever happen? Well, not exactly… I certainly

Behind The Scenes – “Suffering for your art…”

The idea behind this shoot was to get some images that I might enter in the BMC Members’ Handbook photo competition: https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-members-photo-competition-2017 The theme for the competition is “Lost in Adventure”, and one of the things that we very quickly lost in this adventure was body heat! It was incredibly cold, foggy and damp and

A couple of close shaves in the Burbage Valley…

Burbage North early on a Winter Sunday Morning – ideal for a decent walk followed by breakfast down in Hathersage. What could possibly go wrong? Well nothing actually went wrong as such, although one of the “close shaves” this morning could have done. I managed to trip up and my camera hit the ground before

Behind the Scenes – V.A.L

So what’s a V.A.L? Well, it stands for Voice Activated Light-stand. The particular one I used on a recent impromptu shoot was a STUBBS Mk1. It’s quite old, bit tatty around the edges and a bit limited as you can’t update the firmware. The user interface can be unreliable as you sometimes have to issue

Plug in and Play…

Well here we are again… that rare, but non the less momentous event – a blog post. As I’ve said on numerous occasions, post processing is really not my thing, I simply haven’t got the patience. Furthermore, I’m not comfortable on relying on endless tweaks in various software to produce a decent image; if it