Grantham Station & Train Filming. 23rd March.

I spent this afternoon on trains going to and from Grantham and Peterborough, as I was working on a video shoot for Kingsgate's Easter services... it was an interesting shoot as you didn't know if there would be the right seats available on the train you're taking, the camera had to be handheld for H&S reasons, and we had to get all the footage in 2x20min journeys... but, it all worked out and I am looking forward to seeing the finished video piece. 

If you're free next weekend and in Peterborough/Cambridge you can come to one of the services and check it out yourself: Peterborough - Cambridge

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A very busy week; train signals, Michael Kenna-style landscapes, and some music photography.

This week has been very busy, so I apologise for my lack of blogging! Monday was spent in York, and a significant amount of time on that day was spent on the train or waiting for delayed trains as the weather was very wet! York is a beautiful city, the purpose of my trip was not photography-based... but I would love to go back and photograph the city.

As I earlier mentioned, the weather has been very wet, causing flooding around my little town... it is very inconvenient but I decided to turn it into a positive by taking some Michael Kenna style landscapes (long exposures, black and white conversions..) The flooded fields and do look quite beautiful when filled with water!

To end off my week I was photographing a concert, Rend Collective Experiment and Matt Redman were playing for the Big Church Night in, Kingsgate was filled with 1400 people (I think) and it was an amazing evening! A great concert to photograph, so much happening on stage and a great atmosphere.

So, a great week!

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At the cross. 4th March.

27 Million Tour & A ladybird. 3rd March.

I was in my garden earlier and saw this ladybird, I thought it would make an interesting photograph as it shows how us, humans, are not the only inhabitants of our gardens, but gardens are actually teaming with hundreds of different life forms!

Yesterday Matt & Beth Redman and LZ7 came to my church, Kingsgate. The concert was part of the 27million tour, 27 million is a song which has been written to raise awareness of human trafficking and the fact that there are 27 million slaves in the world. The song/tour are supporting the A21 charity, it is such a great charity and I highly recommend that you check it out!

27 Million iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/twenty-seven-million/id500399945?i=500399948

A21: http://www.thea21campaign.org/

Here are a few photos from the night, for more visit my facebook page

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The Balloon Seller. 17th December.

It's the last few days till Christmas! I am trying to get all the little bits of Christmas shopping finished now and when I was doing it I saw this lady selling balloons... so I thought this photo would capture a snippet of my day rather well! 

In other news my Church (Kingsgate Community Church) held their first Christmas service tonight, I was blown away by it, so many people were using such great talents to honour the birth of Jesus. AMAZING! There are three more services tomorrow, I'm excited!

  

Colourful Feet. 14th October.

So I was at my Church this evening for the Youth as I'm a leader.... today I took a few photos for the cover of the youth magazine which is coming out soon... and I did quite like the results! 

In other news, all London trips are postponed as I have other priorities... but I am going to Lincoln a couple of times in the next few days (hopefully) so keep your eyes WIDE OPEN! 

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1st of October 2011 & Dance photography!

I was in Peterborough today and this man was promoting the world Conker Championships! I just had to ask him for a portrait as his outfit was fantastic! He was a great guy!!

In other news I photographed a dance group last night. They are called Release and they were at Kingsgate Community Church! They were really talented dancers and I enjoyed photographing them as their routines were packed full of different moves and formations. I have never really done dance photography before, but it was great and I learnt quite a lot about how to approach dance photography.

A little bit of music photography...

As I have previously said, even though my main photographic interest is Landscape photography I enjoy exploring other genres. On Saturday I had the perfect opportunity to  explore a different photographic genre. My Church (Kingsgate Community Church) was hosting a concert by the chart topping band LZ7.

I found it hard to shoot using the equipment which I have as the environment I was shooting in was quite dark. But challenges such as that mean that I have to quickly learn how to work around them and still try to produce high quality photographic work.

More photos from the concert.

I really enjoyed shooting the concert and if anything else like this comes my way I'd definitely do it again! You learn so much about photography by trying new things, and what you learn can easily effect how you would normally shoot!