Black Nore Lighthouse lies on the Severn Estuary coastline at Portishead, Bristol, UK. The coast path is a short walk from home for us and one of our regular dog walking routes.
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Category Archives: Photography – General
Upfest – Bristol Street Art Festival
Upfest is a Street Art Festival that started in 2008 and up until recently ran once a year in the Bedminster area of Bristol. Here’s what it’s all about taken from the Upfest About Page on their website:
Continue readingBristol Gromit Unleashed Trail – A Photography Assignment
The Gromit Unleashed Trail began as a public arts trail in Bristol in 2013, as a collaboration between Bristol Hospital Charities and Aardman Animations.
Continue readingGuitar Tech Photo Shoot
One thing I’d picked up from a stock image course a few years ago was trying to make use of contacts to get access to something a bit different and not necessarily available for everyday photography.
Continue readingStock – Food Photography
I think I probably developed my interest in photographing food whilst working as a wedding photographer. Small detail shots, such as flowers, guests favours, drinks and food are all part of a wedding and therefore had to be recorded by me, the wedding photographer.
Continue readingStock – My Stock Image Photography Story
It’s always nice to make a few pennies from your hobby and that’s the way I generally view selling some of my images through a stock picture library. It’s not quite as simple as that though.
Continue readingStock – Preserves – Chutneys and Pickles
In a break from catching up on past weddings I thought I’d write a short blog on what I’ve been photographing lately. In one word it’s ‘Preserves’.
Continue readingRedged Mini Tripod
I thought I’d take a break from the retrospective wedding blogs, although I will take up where I left off soon. Instead I thought I’d write about this amazing second hand buy I picked up in a local charity shop today. It’s the Redged RTA-320 pictured above. It needed a wipe over but apart from a few scratches its in almost like new condition. I picked it up for £9.99. I can’t find them for sale in the UK but I saw one listed in the states for $104.
Continue readingLovegrove Studio Workshop
My day at the Damien Lovegrove Workshop. I arrived at 9.00am and spent the first hour chatting with the other two photographers on the course. Both were full time professionals specialising in general photography.
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