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Portpolio Update

By admin, on May 25th, 2011

Major update of the portpolio in progress

Another Successful Course compleated

By admin, on May 9th, 2011

The latest Studio20E course was held in Malvern,Worcester.

With some new and some revisiting faces (Always nice to see returning faces)

The first day out (after some quick revision) was on the Malvern Hills (Bluebell shoot)

Unfortunatly it was in the middle of the pre Easter hotspell and there was a lot of heat haze making landscape shots a none runner. All students managed some great shots of the bluebells that abound on the hills.

Second day covered architecture with a visit to Witley Court ( recommended )

Day three was on The Severn Valley steam railway where students managed period (Victorian) type railway shots and some even got into the floorplate (Drivers cab) of one of the working trains.

Fourth day started with a introduction to software Adobe Elements and for some Lightroom. This was followed by a “Free afternoon” where students could venture off with their cameras.

A number of students came with the instructors to a afternoon along side the River Avon at Tewksbury and later into the black and white 15th Centry Alms houses and the Abbey.

The last day (Friday) was course dispersal.A slide show of the best images taken and one to one progress chats with instructors.

I would like to thank all the students for their enthusiasm which made for the course being very enjoyable by all.

Portfolio update

By admin, on May 30th, 2010

Busy Busy Busy

Updating the portfolio (Still on going) ,resizing all images ,linking into Photobox to shadow my Gallerys displays.

Introduction to Photography Course @Mullion Cove.

By admin, on May 23rd, 2010

Course 1 of 2010
Assisted Simon with a 3 Day introduction to photography course at the Mullion Cove Hotel in Cornwall.
(http://www.mullion-cove.co.uk/)
The weather wasn`t the best with a lot of haze and a day of sea fog,however it proved to the students that it dosn`t require perfect weather to take good images,you just have to think a little outside the box. A great course with great students ,resulting in some stunning images.
I then had 2 days spare at the end of the course ,the first day was a bit of a wind down (still misty) and on the second day the sun broke through and i could of well been on the Mediteranean coast,however after catching up on some work in the studio we went out for a Sunset/night shot at Porth Nanven nr St Ives.Results to be posted.
Big thank you to all the students for making it such a friendly course.Hope to see you all again.

Snowdonia and Borth Sands

By admin, on April 28th, 2010

Simon Green came up from Penzance to give a talk to Beacon Camera Club on Lightroom.

The next day we had planned to visit Snowdon area and get some low flying MOD plane shots.(http://lowfly.net/) Weather was great,Blue skys and fluffy white clouds—-how ever as with most planned days something had to go wrong.This time it was a volcano erupting in iceland and a total air embargo.(just our luck)

Anyway ,we went anyway as a recce for next time.

We also popped down to Borth to get some seascape shots. A long and memorable day—thanks Simon.

Gold in them Hills

By admin, on January 10th, 2010

Well Lots of snow with a great sumset.

Not seen the Malvern Hills covered like this since i was a child. I managed to get up on the British Camp for an hour on the day after the fall and thenext day the Wyche Cutting in late afternoon.The first visit was great,virgin snow everywhere,the second looked like a heard of elephants had come through. (Every school in the county was closed and all kids headed straight to the hills! ) Saying that the sunset made a well worthy visit. There`s also a pano uploaded from the Old Hills ,Nr Callow end ,a spot i`ve uploaded before fron an Autumn shoot.I liked the differance.