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New Portrait Frames
We will shortly be posting a new page on the webvsite showing you our elegant frame styles. We are delighted to be able to bring you these after a long search – which will always continue – to find the right mix for every home. You can see what they will look like on a wall and what the different style colours are.
These will be with you by the end of May.
Crystal Acrylic frame with Invisible mounts is a stunning addition to any home
Launching Laya’Lina
On Thursday I spent the day with the lovely guys at Laya’lina restaurant in Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge.
They had given me a full agenda that ended up with me shooting contiuously from 11 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. Architectural, Design, Food and Social Event Photography all rolled into one day.
Contains Nudity but only Classic Art
It is only fair to point out that even though it would be verging on the perverse to find these images titillating, if you have an aversion or prohibition, for any reason, concerning the viewing of artistically naked female bodies, then this post is not for you. Before you ask… we have no problem with our children seeing them.
I often drifted back towards the portrait where i know I make sense
I have been interested for many years in addressing some form ideas I have had for taking images of the naked female form. It was inspired by images I fell in love with 30 years ago by Edward Western of Sweet Peppers. The smooth contours and non-geometric shapes that contrast with everything that we humans bring to the world. › Continue reading
DECAYED ART
When the Good Girls came for their shoot they very kindly brought me some flowers and a bottle of wine – this is a story in the telling and not a mandate for visitors – The bottle of wine I never saw as Oliver got bored and drank it…but the lovely white tulips sucked hungrily on their vase of water until their time was up and they had to return to compost.
It was a cold and windy morning and I was wondering if I would get away with ignoring the wilting vase when I realised that the clever little things had arranged themselves in their mortal throes in a way that could not have been imitated in life. Now I may be reluctant to get cold but never to take a picture so I rushed into the studio and set the wheels in motion. I then went back and gently transfered the dying works of art on to a sheet of polished black acrylic – that I keep especially for such purposes – and re aligned here and there until perfect.
I was also lucky that MGD had dumped his continuous lighting on the studio a week before and so, together with a brown-based old master background from those sweethearts at Studio Decor, I brought the Lastolites to bear. A few quick tests and a bit of jiggery pokery in Adobe Lightroom and we have one rather nice still life from a bunch of flowers that had shone gloriously for to weeks and then were in the bin before my first coffee. And all before 08.30 a.m. I just finalised the one pose and you can see it below.
Just a hint of blue in the vase lifts the corner, adding balance and modernity.
Thats all of my “Blue Peter” photography for today. I hope you like. best wishes until my next post – about my brilliant day with TREVOR AND FAYE YERBURY.
Planet Cake!
I am really excited to share with you some of the images that we crafted for Rachel and her team from Planet Cake! It was an all-round success after some very hard work and a few flashes of genius!
Soft and seductive with pink rose petals
We met at the National Wedding Show at Olympia in February › Continue reading
MGD agrees to Chairmanship
As some of you may know, The Wild Highlander organises the Urban Photographer of the Year awards for CB Richard Ellis. One of the worlds biggest photography competitions when it comes to prizes. The competition is also know by its creative title ‘Cities at Work’
One of the most prominent judges in Europe
You will be hearing much more about this in the near future but for now we can announce that we are delighted that Martin Grahame-Dunn, FMPA, FRSA, FSWPP, FBPPA, QEP, Hon.FMPA, Photographer and Fine Artist, has agreed to chair the Judging Panel again. This year we are opening the competition up to the whole of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Watch This Space… www.citiesatwork.eu
THE GOOD GOOD GIRLS
Backlighting and dark clothing combine to make a great modelling shoot.
We took some classic portraits at the weekend. The best part was that nothing went according to plan. The original plan was to take some quite formal images of the girls but the weather was so good that it did not feel right being inside and after all, God does the best lighting. So we › Continue reading
WOW
Wow is really how I feel. We posted the new site this afternoon after some pretty intense days and nights of writing, sizing and coding. I did not do the coding. It was the brilliant guys at Evosite who deisgned and built the site. Unless you have a shoot you only see the top of this iceberg. It is when you go inside to order that the details really shows.
Flower Biscuits by Planet Cake
So, unable to contain my excitement › Continue reading