Lovely Letter of Thanks from Potters Bar Photographic Society
I was delighted to receive this letter from Eric at Potters Bar & District Photographic Society, following my talk there last night which was extremely well received, and during which people were saying it was the best talk they had ever had (and one of them had been a member for 37 years!)
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Three’s Company
Photograph from The Surrey Herald (Chertsey, Addlestone & Byfleet edition) dated 27th September 2012.
Travels Through the Spectrum – My Exhibition
Well, it’s been a while since entered a blog post here (ok, a VERY long while), so what better reason to get back in the saddle than with a post about my exhibition which has just opened today?
My Mother is a landscape painter, so we are sharing the gallery for my photographs and her painting[......]
Holga Impressions of Venice
When I visited Venice with Mum in May of 2011, Mark loaned me his Holga and some rolls of colour and B&W film, although neither of us thought to have a run-through of the camera and its’ workings before I went. Consequently, I had little understanding of how to correctly wind on the film, the r[......]
Star Blossom, Part 4
Further images from my new project ‘Star Blossom’, of photo illustrations to accompany the poetry and prose of my uncle Fergus Chadwick. Please see original post for full story on this one: http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2012/02/09/star-blossom/
In “Paradise Lost” Milton has starbright[......]
Star Blossom, Part 3
Further images from my new project ‘Star Blossom’, of photo illustrations to accompany the poetry and prose of my uncle Fergus Chadwick. Please see original post for full story on this one: http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2012/02/09/star-blossom/
Walks in the Dark
Poems remembered from[......]
Star Blossom, Part 2
Further images from my new project ‘Star Blossom’, of photo illustrations to accompany the poetry and prose of my uncle Fergus Chadwick. Please see original post for full story on this one: http://www.vivecakohphotography.co.uk/2012/02/09/star-blossom/
Other lives here on earth are al[......]
Star Blossom
When my Uncle Fergus asked me if I would produce a series of photo illustrations for his new book of poetry and prose, I was extremely pleased and excited to be asked, whilst at the same time equally apprehensive that I would be unable to rise to the challenge and create anything remotely suitable t[......]
A Walk in Richmond Park
A week ago I met my friend Cat for a photowalk in Richmond Park, an arrangement we had made some time previously, but we were incredibly lucky with the weather on the day as the sky was clear blue and the sun was shining.
The light was beautiful and warm, brightening up a Winter day with gold[......]
Rabbit
Mark and I visited the local Horniman Museum on Sunday, a short distance from where I live and free entry too, which is always a bonus. Remember visiting the place as a young child and being fascinated by the volume of weird and wonderful objects on display, collected by Frederick John Horniman d[......]
The Tower
Another view of the Elizabethan Tower at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent, United Kingdom, to link to my previous image ‘Magic Castle’. This one features three separate textures to enhance and colour various sections of the image, which was shot on a sunny Spring day, so I wanted to warm up the[......]
Magic Castle
I’ve been looking back through my (now massive) archive of as yet un-processed photographs, and found this one from March 2011, taken at Sissinghurst Castle during a visit to this lovely National Trust property. At the time I wasn’t particularly enamoured of any of the photos that I took on that[......]
Crossness Pumping Station
Last weekend Mark and I visited Crossness Pumping Station in Abbey Wood, which is only open to the public a few times per year, and was on this occasion open for the annual Open House event. After a lengthy queue to enter the building, we were then faced with another queue once inside to enter[......]
Bovington Tank Museum
Last weekend Mark and I visited the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset, and spent several absorbing hours wandering around with our cameras. It was a fascinating museum, packed full of tanks, and we were both surprised at the sheer number of different ones that there were.
I decided quite[......]
My ARPS Panel ‘Left Behind’
These 15 images form my panel for Associateship the Royal Photographic Society. Regarding Associateship, the Society’s website states: “The second level of The Society’s Distinctions is the Associateship – a significant step up from Licentiateship. While in the Licentiateship we are looking f[......]
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
I made this image a while ago in an attempt to describe visually what depression feels like. It was done from ‘memory’, some stages away from the depths of true despair (for if I were there, I would not have been able to work at all), the title indicative that if I can only summon up sufficient[......]
More East London Street Art
Another selection from my recent visit to Shoreditch in East London, of some of the excellent street art that is so prolific in this area. This one is by Farkfk, and through my post-processing using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 I have selectively coloured the image in an attempt to make it my own, i.e.[......]
East London Street Art
Street Art was one of the first subjects that I photographed “seriously” in summer 2008 after I had first bought my Nikon D700 and 24-70 f2.8, which was the only lens I had for a while until I could afford to buy more. When Mark and I went to East London last Sunday to wander around Shoreditch p[......]
I Like It When A Girl Can Walk Right By
Something a little different for me, in that it is (a) black and white and (b) not textured!
Mark and I had a photographic wander around Shoreditch in London’s East End on Sunday, specifically looking for street art by some of our favourite artists. Mark had previously seen and photographed[......]
New York Blog
In September 2009, I spent ten days alone in New York City, staying in a small self-catering apartment on the Upper East Side. While I was there, I kept an online blog, to amuse myself in the evenings, and to entertain my friends and family back home. This is the book of the blog, with man[......]
Indecisiveness Reigns Supreme!
Help! Trying to decide which of these two photographs to enter for a competition, in the Urban black & white category, which is described as “from a gritty urban environmental portrait to a fine art architectural abstract. It’s not just the subject we are interested in, but the quality of the b[......]
Dungeness
