Street and Cityscapes
I took an afternoon trip to Canary Wharf, I don’t think I have ever seen anywhere busier even Oxford Street can’t compete with One Canada Square, the mall there is huge and full of people rushing to...
View ArticleA Mixed Bag
This series is a bit of a mixed bag, it is all black and white but there is some street, some landscape and some abstract. It is all about experimentation. The landscapes were planned, the street were...
View ArticlePast and Presents…
I recently bought myself a Pentax Super ME 35mm SLR as a treat, the idea being that because each picture has a cost attached I will take more time to consider the picture I am are taking. Well it has...
View ArticlePhonography
I’d always been a bit dismissive of the camera on my phone, for some reason the fact that it was eight times more powerful than my first digital camera didn’t really sink in, it was just a phone right!...
View ArticleNo Way Out at the Hen & Chicken
2014 is here, the end of the year was pretty hectic too many things to get sorted out before the end of 2013 and nowhere near enough time to do. Posts on here were a lot more sporadic than I would have...
View ArticleTim Clinch – Interiors Workshop
As a birthday present from my lovely wife, I went to the Shelley’s Hotel in Lewes to spend a day photographing interiors under the watchful, hugely experienced, eye of Tim Clinch. The event was...
View ArticleCandid Commuters
Over the past few months I have been steadily building up a collection of candid commuter shots, extremely easy when you are commuting 4 hours a day into one of the busiest cities in the world. These...
View ArticleSuntrap
My work have seen fit to give me a shiny new Samsung Galaxy S4, I am guessing that it is not supposed to be for taking pictures but with the quality of the camera on the phone it is hard not to....
View ArticleReflections on Water
This is the start of a new series of black and white images of reflections on the surface of water. The idea is to create a series of tranquil images, serene moments. We lead busy lives; I realised...
View ArticleColours of Spring
Well after a long wet winter, spring is here and we are getting used to sunny skies and longer brighter evenings. I love spring, I think it is my favourite season, the weather is warmer but not too...
View ArticleCrawley Black Belt Academy
Continuing the Dean Street Designs series on martial arts clubs this short series of images was taken during an exclusive photo shoot with two senior members of the Crawley Black Belt Academy, my old...
View ArticleLow Key
Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a...
View ArticleSeascapes
There is something about the sound of the ocean that we find calming, the sounds of the sea and a cool breeze will salve the soul. I love taking pictures of seascapes, some of my first images were...
View ArticleMundesley – Norfolk
I am currently mourning the (hopefully temporary) loss of my Pentax K-r which is experiencing an issue with the shutter. It expired 3 1/2 days in to my holiday, just when I was starting to warm up...
View ArticlePortrait
Continuing the portrait series started with the low key series, this is a series of standard portraits in colour and black & white. I am hoping to add more to this as I get more volunteers....
View ArticleSecret Garden
After the mechanical failure of my Pentax K-r I was without a camera for a month, luckily I have been able to replace it with a new Pentax K-3 and have been trying to put it through its paces. You...
View ArticleLondon Photowalk
More road (or street) testing of the new camera, this time around the streets of London. I’ve never been down to the shores of the Thames before, I was hoping to find something of historical value but...
View ArticleIn the Zone
I don’t really consider myself a street photographer although a lot of my photography takes place on the street. The techniques and above all the eye that street photographers have separates them from...
View ArticleDevils Dyke Walk
Earlier in the year I went to an open house event for a photographer I met on a Black and White Photography magazine workshop, Sarah Ketelaars, her black and white landscape work was amazing and I...
View ArticleDean Street Dining – Pierre Victoire
This is the start of a new series for Dean Street Designs. Dean Street Dining is all about the restaurants on the street that gives this site its name. The series starts at the top of Dean Street...
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