Sunday 23 February 2014

London Exhibition

We're exhibiting some prints at the end of March at the prestigious Mall Galleries in London at the end of March (24th-29th). This is with a few of our Light & Land trip colleagues amongst many others, and organised by Charlie Waite, trying to promote actually printing photos, as opposed to keeping them just for on-screen viewing.
It should be an interesting event, with hopefully quite a variety of work from around the world.

This is the link for more details:
www.lightandland.co.uk/exhibition


Saturday 22 February 2014

Blown away in Bordeaux

Just back from 9 days in South-West France with Jonathan Chritchley on an Ocean Capture workshop and tour.
We didn't quite get blown away near Biarritz, but almost - perhaps to be expected on the Atlantic Coast in February.
The idea was to try some long exposures, concentrate on Black & White, and get some hints from Jonathan on his mastery of minimalist ocean pictures.
We were experimenting with exposures into the minutes, to get an atmospheric silky water look sometimes, or a hint of stormy seas without freezing the moment at others.
Subject matter tends to be something sticking out of the water, whether it be a jetty or the carrelet fishing huts which pepper the coast down there.
Do the long exposures give an unrealistic and artificial image that is unrepresentative and unnatural, or an artistic vision and atmosphere that transforms the everyday to a different level? See the image below or in Recent Images or France on imageyonder.com and let me know what you think.