I went to the National Trust property Wimpole Hall today... I was a typical tourist snapping the scenery and the house...
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label landscape. Show all posts
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Swans and Roses.
I currently have a red rose in my possession, I love roses.. they are one of my favourite flowers and it is impossible for my to have a rose and to not photograph it... so in the past few days I have taken my camera to it. I did intend to set the rose on fire and photograph it, but I have found out that it is incredibly hard to set a rose on fire.... so more research is needed!
Friday, 15 February 2013
The Instagrammer.
Yes.. I'm an Instagrammer, I'm a fan of the cheesy fake-film filters and the quick ability to whip your phone out to snap and upload a photo. I went out on a little walk today to see how flooded the wash fields in whittlesey are and I debated taking my camera... but I decided to stick with my phone and take some low-quality quick snaps... and actually, I quite like them.
Saturday, 1 December 2012
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!
Monday, 19 November 2012
St.Kyneburgha - A beautiful little church. 19th November.
I was photographing a lovely wedding today, and it was in this beautiful little church in a small village called Castor. I rarely photograph weddings (usually because of the high pressure and the bridezillas that you can stumble upon) but today's wedding was not like that at all, it was a very lovely event and a pleasure to photograph.
I found the church so lovely, the graveyard at the back was filled with ancient gravestones and a few grazing sheep, and it sat on top of a hill overlooking the village... I had to photograph it as I found the building and it's setting quite beautiful.
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Winter at the Lido. 17th November.
On a very chilly winters day when the streets were filled with Christmas shoppers, one city centre establishment was completely empty.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
More Mist with Campervans. 24th October.
I was driving home through the misty fenland surroundings when I saw this campervan, I quite liked it and pulled over so that I could take a quick snapshot of it against the river... it was one of those completely impromptu moments, but now I regret not crossing the road and taking a portrait of the owner who was fishing.. next time I will (if there ever is a next time!)
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Horses in the misty fens. 23rd October.
I went out into the fens this afternoon (morning didn't work due to time constraints, but it stayed misty all day), I took my Mamiya & Nikon and headed off to meet some horses. My original idea was to find some nice trees and landscape scenes and photograph them, but instead I found these horses who were so friendly I had to photograph them!!
Hoping to get my film developed soon, so looking forward to seeing the results.. but for now here are some shots from my DSLR:
And a pylon:
In other news, I am off to London on Sunday as I start my time at Rankin on Monday.. pretty excited about this, I shall keep my blog very much up to date about everything which I am getting up to!
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Me.. Outside. 16th October.
Today was one of those days where I could have easily been stuck inside all day editing photos and typing up proposals.... I realised this at around 5pm and decided to grab a few camera bits and bobs and head outside for the sunset... Alex Boyd's work "The Sonnets" popped into my head (http://alexboyd.co.uk/sonnets/) and I decided to attempt a couple of self-portraits inspired by his work... this portrait may be miles away from his beautiful photographs, but a) I am not a model and b) I wasn't behind the camera! I may try and find a model to photograph like this.. one day.. but I'm happy with my photo for today!
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Goodbye Harlaxton. 8th August.
So today was my last day at the beautiful place which was Harlaxton Manor. I captured a couple of photos of the place before I had to head home.. it is such a beautiful building, inside and out! I thoroughly look forward to visiting it again sometime in the future.
Friday, 27 July 2012
Poppies and a Field. 27th July.
Today called for an early photo & blog post as this evening a very important event is happening in our capital city, the Olympics Opening Ceremony. I am very excited for the Olympics this summer, I may not be going to any of the events.. but I shall remain patriotic and fully backing team GB throughout the whole of the summer.
The photo above is a place which I drive by all the time, I never stop there though... except for today! There were a whole bunch of poppies growing around the perimeters of this field, it just created a really nice scene. Sometimes it's worth stopping the car for a couple of minutes so that you can respect the wonderful scenery which surrounds you.
In over news, I am on holiday as of tomorrow.. I shall attempt to continue my daily blog posts during this time, but I apologise in advance if they are not as good as they normally are. I hope you are all enjoying the summer so far, happy holidays!
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Horses and Sunsets. 24th July.
This evening there happened to be a beautiful sunset, I spied it through my window.. and then rushed off to a location which I knew would compliment a sun set. I decided to face away from the sunset and focus on a group of horses who were running around a field, they weren't the easiest thing to photograph as they were constantly moving and the amount of light was decreasing... but I finally captured this shot, which I was quite happy with.
I did have to capture a typical "picture postcard" sunset shot though, so here it is.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
GradAcad day 13: Dan from Scriberia, Mentoring, and the Moving Picture Company. 11th July.
Today started with a session from Dan Porter who is a Creative Director of Scriberia, a company which creates visual illustrative minutes of meetings. After learning a bit about the background of Scriberia we had the opportunity to engage with two activities; the first activity was a little bit like Pictionary... we were given 12 words (one at a time) and we had 30 seconds to draw the work, the words varied from "Snag" to "Garage"... it was interesting to see how everyone translated each word into a drawing. The second task we had took a little bit more thinking, we had to draw the shoes of the client we are currently working on a brief for, and then we had to draw the answers to five different questions around the shoes. I quite enjoyed the session, I do not have and talent within illustration.. but I didn't find that it limited my responses to the tasks.
You should check out Scriberia, their work is amazing:
After our talk from Dan we spent time meeting people from the industry and they helped mentor us with our progress in the briefs we've been set. This was incredibly helpful and now I have a final idea which I need to strengthen and prepare a pitch for.
We then all crammed onto the #55 bus and headed over to MPC - Moving Picture Company, these guys are massive! They have three strands: MPC Film, MPC Advertising and MPC Creative. MPC Film has produced the post production work for films such as Harry Potter, Narnia, and Pirates of the Caribbean.. they are also Tim Burton's post-production company of choice... I had the chance to see part of their showreel from 2011.. and it is pretty amazing. MPC Advertising have also post-produced some really great ads for clients such as Cadbury's and Channel 4. MPC Creative are the team behind the Fox's Biscuits adverts, we spent quite a bit of time looking into MPC creative and the character work which they have done.
After the presentation we received a brief and were placed in teams to complete the brief in an hour, our brief was to create a character which would be used to represent "Souper Stars" a new soup company (the soup company doesn't exist, it was invented for the brief). So we set about brainstorming ideas of hamsters, rabbits, the "SOUPer BOWL" and other crazy characters.. but then we settled on the idea of "Brian the Soup Spoon"... Brian is a "Ladles Man" and acts very much like a 40 year old John Cleese (the Basil Faulty era)... he also used to work at the Ritz before going self employed and he now owns the successful "Souper Stars" company.
All the groups then had to pitch back their character to a panel of people from MPC, the best team would win and there was also a runner up... sadly my team didn't win, but we were the runner up! The winners were a team who created a "Diva Bird" who performed to people by the whistling that came out of her lips as she blew over her soup, so a pretty good idea for a character!
The office at MPC was pretty amazing, there was a screening floor in the basement and on the top floor (where we worked on the brief) there was a bar.. and the walls were large glass windows so you could look over some of the London skyline, it was pretty impressive!
#GradAcad
Saturday, 30 June 2012
The land where you can see for miles. 30th June.
So, I'm back home for the weekend. Getting home to my quiet little town made me realise how different London life is! I could see the sky without having to look straight up past tall buildings, and I could look around and see for miles. So today I decided to go for a little walk and soak in the beauty of living on the verge of the countryside. My town contains a mix of industry and farmland, so you may stand in one spot and see a large brick factory and then turn around and view beautiful countryside.. it is a contrast which I find interesting and quite love!
I am also enjoying being home and stepping back from my work on "The Park Study", so that I can think of where I need to take it when I start shooting again next week... a few new ideas and pieces of inspiration have filled my head so far... so watch this space!
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