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I am lucky to be able to include Norfolk landscape photographer Jon Gibbs as one of my friends. On a recent visit to his website I noticed he now has a blog. Never tried blogging before but it was great to see what the old chap was up too, and how his resistance to those evil chocolate biscuits was going (minute on the lips Jon, lifetime on the hips).
I then thought why don't I give it a go.... Blogging that is!
Friday 23rd July 2010
A weekend of chores beckons, payback! Last weekend I got out twice, once inland and once on my beloved coast, both times in the company of cracking landscape photographer Jon Gibbs. I'm not sure but I think my flower arranging may have made a lasting impression!!!
Remember last time I mentioned I needed a new cable release.... Well I now need a new cable release and a new Lee 2 stop soft grad, double doh!
Wednesday 14th July 2010
Well yesterday my new monitor turned up and I can now crack on with a backlog of processing... The first one (below) has been done, this is the one mentioned in my last blog!
Need a new shutter release cable again.... Another one dies after a quick dip in the sea, Doh!
Wednesday 7th July 2010
Haven't been on here for a while... Why I hear you ask! Simple I recon that not turning on my PCs for a week or two has cut the ruddy heat down in my house from completely and utterly unbearable to just utterly unbearable... At last that damed awful heat seems to have gone!
New monitor sorted... Got me one of those S-SPS panel LCDs, can't wait, should be hear Monday. Photography wise I got to Wells for dawn last weekend... The tide was low enough to allow me into the estuary and boy was I lucky with the light... When the monitor gets here I can process the shots and get them on the site.
Tuesday 15th June 2010
More of a grump then a blog this time I'm afraid.... Haven't been out with the camera for ages... That cracking poppyfield just down the road, the one I've been waiting for the right sky and light with, yep heavy rain on Sunday night and it's completely wiped out... Finally and by far the worst of all my trusty old CRT monitor has packed up... Gutted... Need to find another, and quick!!!
Friday 28th May 2010
The last time I wnt out with the camera was exactly 1 month ago. Come hell or high water I'm out at sunset today... I've been told of a couple of old barges aground on the North Norfolk Coast, if the tide is right there should be enough water for a nice reflection, all I need to do now is pray for a decent sky and decent light...
Friday 21st May 2010
Shall I shan’t I, Shall I shan’t I…. I Shall…. I know… Now I’ve gone and mentioned it out loud the image will be tinny and not one I like, but sod it, I’m as proud as punch anyway….
Last year I was commissioned by Rooms Outdoor to photography a superb garden room and landscaped garden they had produced for a client in North Norfolk. Well yesterday I got an email from them to say the Sunday Times had chosen them for a garden room feature in this Sunday’s paper. The Times had asked for one of my images to use in the feature…. As you can guess I am chuffed to bits…
Ps if on Sunday the paperboy doesn’t deliver your copy of the Sunday Times it’s probably because my mum has bought up all the copies…! I apologise in advance.
Wednesday 12th May2010
Just got back from holiday with the family (so camera equipment stayed in it's bag), went to North Wales... Note to self, I must photograph further afield! I do love the Norfolk Coast don't get me wrong... But I really must get into those there hills as often as I can this year, with the camera this time! Norfolk is a great county, rape seed, barley and wheat are very nice, and the bits of the Broads you can actual get to, very nice indeed. but none of it compares to hills, mountains and valleys...
Thursday 29th April 2010
Good night last night. On Sunday I popped in to see Gareth Hacon at his and Jon Gibb's gallery in Wells next the Sea(Cracking gallery in Staithe Street and always worth a plug! I digress). Anyway Gareth mentioned that high tide at Wells last night would be 3.5mtrs and around sunset time. i decided to try East Quay, got there a around 7:15pm and boy was the water high! I just managed to wade out to where I wanted to shoot from with the water lapping millimetres from the top of my wellies, but well worth it, got a nice selection of shots including some lovely pink in the sky at around 8:45pm.
Tuesday 20th April 2010
Another cracking morning at Happisburgh on Sunday. Our ‘one-to-one' client wasn’t getting there until just before sunrise so I decided to arrive at 5am, it was well worth the early start (who said landscape photography was easy, my alarm went off at 3:30am). I managed a complete series of images, ranging from early morning blues at 5:15am through to warmer orange tones as the sun started to come up. All have a really calm feel to them, and more importantly, not one vapour trail… All I need to do now is process them! The sunrise it’s self was amazing, I hastily got our client to put his 70-300mm lens on his camera and at 300mm got him a superb image of a huge orange sun above an empty sea. This made me think… Currently I’m only using a 17-40mm on a 5D and a 50mm prime on an old 30D, about time I looked at adding a 100-400mm to my kit for just this type of shot. With the value of the pound as it is Ebay here I come…
Wednesday 14th April 2010
Well I finally got a square format shot I like from Happisburgh. On Saturday Kate and myself had a one-to-one workshop starting from there at sunrise. I managed to get there a few minutes early and get a shot in the bag before they turned up, I also managed a nice panoramic which I'll again keep as a reserve for the book. We have another one-to-one this Sunday and again it's from Happisburgh. I'm getting there 1/2 an hour early and hope to get a shot or two.
Tuesday 6th April 2010
Yesterday was really good in the end. The sky started to clear at around 5:30pm so I made the short drive up to Blakeney again (for the second time that day). Had a really good sky this time and the tide was just perfect for those 3 little old posts just off the end of the quay. I managed to get a selection of shots I’m happy with, including both a panoramic and square composition. Happy Bunny (no Easter pun intended, honest)!
Monday 5th April 2010
Finally got out with the camera this morning. Got to Blakeney at 6:00am with a promising band of orange just coming on the horizon... Could have gone either way. 10 second sunrise, then grey, then rain, then left... On Saturday morning I was running a 'one to one' workshop with Kate so the camera had to stay in it's bag, wonderful strong light and superb stormy sky... Typical.!!! I did get one shot however, right at the end of the workshop we were in the old ruin at St Benet's Abbey. Lots of old graffiti on the walls including a heart shape, which somebody had recently coloured in with pink chalk. This looked wonderful against the old green stained stone walls of the abbey. I always keep a camera body with a f1.8 50mm fixed lens for just these occassions.
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Junior had a good two & half hour snooze yesterday afternoon so I managed to get a bit done, including processing a couple more 'just in-case' panoramics for the book. These are now on the website but I will decide whether or not to use them in the book once I've seen the proofs. As I've said before I now want to concentrate on square formats as much as I can. With more and more togs selling their prints I want to try and stay one step ahead. Hopefully if they find composing square shots half as difficult as I do it should be a market place far less crowded! I hope to process another taken at Holkham later on today. Then onto boring stuff (even more boring then processing that is), My plan this year was to reduce the number of craft fairs and instead increase submissions to magazines and image libraries. So far I've done the easy bit but not the latter.
Monday 29th March 2010
Well to be honest Sunday could have gone a lot better, never made it out with the camera again... The problem is if I don't get everything ready the night before there's no way I can leave early in the morning without disturbing my light sleeping wifey, and equally light sleeping 18 month old toddler Ollie. It just didn't happen. The next 3 weekends I have workshops on so who knows when I can try again. The frustrations of a landscape photographer!!!
Friday 26th March 2010
Not much to say today... Decided to set up a blog a few moments ago and now no idea what to put...! Oh yeah, off to Happisburgh for dawn on Sunday. I’ve started to take shots for square format prints recently (trying again to be a little bit different) and eventually plan to have a have a gallery of these images on the site covering all of the Norfolk Coast, but to try and build a bit of exclusivity in limited to just one or two shots per location. I love Happisburgh so that's my next mission... It's high tide at dawn on Sunday so I could get something really dramatic, or I could get very wet and grumpy. I'll let you know how I get on.
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I am lucky to be able to include Norfolk landscape photographer Jon Gibbs as one of my friends. On a recent visit to his website I noticed he now has a blog. Never tried blogging before but it was great to see what the old chap was up too, and how his resistance to those evil chocolate biscuits was going (minute on the lips Jon, lifetime on the hips).
I then thought why don't I give it a go.... Blogging that is!
Friday 23rd July 2010
A weekend of chores beckons, payback! Last weekend I got out twice, once inland and once on my beloved coast, both times in the company of cracking landscape photographer Jon Gibbs. I'm not sure but I think my flower arranging may have made a lasting impression!!!
Remember last time I mentioned I needed a new cable release.... Well I now need a new cable release and a new Lee 2 stop soft grad, double doh!
Wednesday 14th July 2010
Well yesterday my new monitor turned up and I can now crack on with a backlog of processing... The first one (below) has been done, this is the one mentioned in my last blog!
Need a new shutter release cable again.... Another one dies after a quick dip in the sea, Doh!
Wednesday 7th July 2010
Haven't been on here for a while... Why I hear you ask! Simple I recon that not turning on my PCs for a week or two has cut the ruddy heat down in my house from completely and utterly unbearable to just utterly unbearable... At last that damed awful heat seems to have gone!
New monitor sorted... Got me one of those S-SPS panel LCDs, can't wait, should be hear Monday. Photography wise I got to Wells for dawn last weekend... The tide was low enough to allow me into the estuary and boy was I lucky with the light... When the monitor gets here I can process the shots and get them on the site.
Tuesday 15th June 2010
More of a grump then a blog this time I'm afraid.... Haven't been out with the camera for ages... That cracking poppyfield just down the road, the one I've been waiting for the right sky and light with, yep heavy rain on Sunday night and it's completely wiped out... Finally and by far the worst of all my trusty old CRT monitor has packed up... Gutted... Need to find another, and quick!!!
Friday 28th May 2010
The last time I wnt out with the camera was exactly 1 month ago. Come hell or high water I'm out at sunset today... I've been told of a couple of old barges aground on the North Norfolk Coast, if the tide is right there should be enough water for a nice reflection, all I need to do now is pray for a decent sky and decent light...
Friday 21st May 2010
Shall I shan’t I, Shall I shan’t I…. I Shall…. I know… Now I’ve gone and mentioned it out loud the image will be tinny and not one I like, but sod it, I’m as proud as punch anyway….
Last year I was commissioned by Rooms Outdoor to photography a superb garden room and landscaped garden they had produced for a client in North Norfolk. Well yesterday I got an email from them to say the Sunday Times had chosen them for a garden room feature in this Sunday’s paper. The Times had asked for one of my images to use in the feature…. As you can guess I am chuffed to bits…
Ps if on Sunday the paperboy doesn’t deliver your copy of the Sunday Times it’s probably because my mum has bought up all the copies…! I apologise in advance.
Wednesday 12th May2010
Just got back from holiday with the family (so camera equipment stayed in it's bag), went to North Wales... Note to self, I must photograph further afield! I do love the Norfolk Coast don't get me wrong... But I really must get into those there hills as often as I can this year, with the camera this time! Norfolk is a great county, rape seed, barley and wheat are very nice, and the bits of the Broads you can actual get to, very nice indeed. but none of it compares to hills, mountains and valleys...
Thursday 29th April 2010
Good night last night. On Sunday I popped in to see Gareth Hacon at his and Jon Gibb's gallery in Wells next the Sea(Cracking gallery in Staithe Street and always worth a plug! I digress). Anyway Gareth mentioned that high tide at Wells last night would be 3.5mtrs and around sunset time. i decided to try East Quay, got there a around 7:15pm and boy was the water high! I just managed to wade out to where I wanted to shoot from with the water lapping millimetres from the top of my wellies, but well worth it, got a nice selection of shots including some lovely pink in the sky at around 8:45pm.
Tuesday 20th April 2010
Another cracking morning at Happisburgh on Sunday. Our ‘one-to-one' client wasn’t getting there until just before sunrise so I decided to arrive at 5am, it was well worth the early start (who said landscape photography was easy, my alarm went off at 3:30am). I managed a complete series of images, ranging from early morning blues at 5:15am through to warmer orange tones as the sun started to come up. All have a really calm feel to them, and more importantly, not one vapour trail… All I need to do now is process them! The sunrise it’s self was amazing, I hastily got our client to put his 70-300mm lens on his camera and at 300mm got him a superb image of a huge orange sun above an empty sea. This made me think… Currently I’m only using a 17-40mm on a 5D and a 50mm prime on an old 30D, about time I looked at adding a 100-400mm to my kit for just this type of shot. With the value of the pound as it is Ebay here I come…
Wednesday 14th April 2010
Well I finally got a square format shot I like from Happisburgh. On Saturday Kate and myself had a one-to-one workshop starting from there at sunrise. I managed to get there a few minutes early and get a shot in the bag before they turned up, I also managed a nice panoramic which I'll again keep as a reserve for the book. We have another one-to-one this Sunday and again it's from Happisburgh. I'm getting there 1/2 an hour early and hope to get a shot or two.
Tuesday 6th April 2010
Yesterday was really good in the end. The sky started to clear at around 5:30pm so I made the short drive up to Blakeney again (for the second time that day). Had a really good sky this time and the tide was just perfect for those 3 little old posts just off the end of the quay. I managed to get a selection of shots I’m happy with, including both a panoramic and square composition. Happy Bunny (no Easter pun intended, honest)!
Monday 5th April 2010
Finally got out with the camera this morning. Got to Blakeney at 6:00am with a promising band of orange just coming on the horizon... Could have gone either way. 10 second sunrise, then grey, then rain, then left... On Saturday morning I was running a 'one to one' workshop with Kate so the camera had to stay in it's bag, wonderful strong light and superb stormy sky... Typical.!!! I did get one shot however, right at the end of the workshop we were in the old ruin at St Benet's Abbey. Lots of old graffiti on the walls including a heart shape, which somebody had recently coloured in with pink chalk. This looked wonderful against the old green stained stone walls of the abbey. I always keep a camera body with a f1.8 50mm fixed lens for just these occassions.
Tuesday 30th March 2010
Junior had a good two & half hour snooze yesterday afternoon so I managed to get a bit done, including processing a couple more 'just in-case' panoramics for the book. These are now on the website but I will decide whether or not to use them in the book once I've seen the proofs. As I've said before I now want to concentrate on square formats as much as I can. With more and more togs selling their prints I want to try and stay one step ahead. Hopefully if they find composing square shots half as difficult as I do it should be a market place far less crowded! I hope to process another taken at Holkham later on today. Then onto boring stuff (even more boring then processing that is), My plan this year was to reduce the number of craft fairs and instead increase submissions to magazines and image libraries. So far I've done the easy bit but not the latter.
Monday 29th March 2010
Well to be honest Sunday could have gone a lot better, never made it out with the camera again... The problem is if I don't get everything ready the night before there's no way I can leave early in the morning without disturbing my light sleeping wifey, and equally light sleeping 18 month old toddler Ollie. It just didn't happen. The next 3 weekends I have workshops on so who knows when I can try again. The frustrations of a landscape photographer!!!
Friday 26th March 2010
Not much to say today... Decided to set up a blog a few moments ago and now no idea what to put...! Oh yeah, off to Happisburgh for dawn on Sunday. I’ve started to take shots for square format prints recently (trying again to be a little bit different) and eventually plan to have a have a gallery of these images on the site covering all of the Norfolk Coast, but to try and build a bit of exclusivity in limited to just one or two shots per location. I love Happisburgh so that's my next mission... It's high tide at dawn on Sunday so I could get something really dramatic, or I could get very wet and grumpy. I'll let you know how I get on.
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