Normanton Church. 7th April.

I was out shooting in Rutland today around Rutland Water, one of the biggest artificial lakes in Europe. I was shooting for my current project as you can find many people fishing, sailing, cycling and walking all around the lake. I was shooting with the Mamiya, I am slowly falling in love with the camera as it is a beautiful piece of equipment. This photo was a little landscape snapshot I took with my DSLR, it is of Normanton Church, a little museum on the edge of the lake, I have always thought it was quite a quaint building.

Old Hunstanton - Birthday! 6th April.

So, today was my birthday! I celebrated it by going to the beach with a few friends and having a little BBQ.. .it was really nice. I didn't take my DSLR with me, but my iPhone and 35mm SLR were on hand. Snapped a few iPhone landscape shots (such as this one) and took a few Martin Parr inspired street photographs on the 35mm, I have quite a few frames left on the 35mm though so you wont be able to see them for a while. It was a great day and I love the location, I am definitley going to re-visit it and use it as a location for one of my project shoots. 

The Skatepark. 5th April.

Today was a lot better than yesterday, so I made the most out of it and went back to my plans of shooting for my current project. This is a little digital test shoot I took when I was out at one of the locations, I'm shooting on 120 film with a Mamyia, it is a great camera to use and still used by many pro photographers. 

Bubbles. 4th April.

Water has been a problem for me today! I was planning to go out and shoot for my project on the English, but the weather destroyed any chance of me getting the photographs which I had planned as British people tend to run away from anything which hints at rain! I do have a number of shoots planned over this week and next week which shall hopefully not be impacted by the weather though, so I am a little bit excited about that!!

Tea and Books, a lighting experiment. 3rd April.

I love experimenting with artificial lighting and messing with natural lighting. The lighting of a photograph can completely change the style and theme of a photograph, you can take one subject and make it either beautiful or horrific through how you choose to light it. Sometimes people fall in the trap of believing that the only way to light a photograph artificially is through using photographic flashes... they are good... but I also love experimenting with my simple little table lamp. A table lamp is so versatile, you can create diffusers for it, easily angle and position it, reflect it with tin foil... there are endless things you can use to create really interesting lighting set ups. I am a big fan of experimentation within photography and photographic techniques, and I think that everyone should use what it available to them to create interesting imagery before investing in top of the range photographic equipment. The equipment does not make a photographer good, the photographer's creativity does!

The Church and the Bird. 2nd April.

I was out for a walk round my little town today, I took my camera with me and decided to photograph whatever interesting things came my way. This church, St.Mary's stands in the centre of the town and whilst walking past it I noticed that there was a bird flying round it, I don't really know why it interested me, but it did.. and I quite like the photograph of that moment!

Locket. 1st April.