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A wander around Dovestones
It's been a good while since I put anything on here - especially anything photography-related. It's, quite frankly, been a crap year for landscape photography. Too much weather, too much of the time. However, the other day I did mange to take a brief wander around Dovestone with a small array of cameras and had a bit of an experiment shooting HDRs from single RAW images. My usual technique has been to shoot three exposures, at approximately +/-1.5 EV - then create the finished shots from these. However, due to my dislike of lugging a tripod around I do end up ...
A Summer Evening at Langsett
It was a lovely hazy summer evening yesterday, so I wandered up to Langsett to have a wander around with the dog and a camera. I don't go up there often - mainly due to the popularity of the place. It really can be heaving at times, with everyone-and-their mother taking a stroll through the woods around the reservoir. Indeed there were a few people around initially, but by the time I started ascending up to the moors above the reservoir we had the place to ourselves save for the sheep and grouse. We ended up doing a big loop up ...
Flyer design for Silver Lining Piercing
Silver Lining Piercing approached me the other day for a flyer design to stand out from the crowd, and to appeal to their target audience of 14-25 year olds. I created a bespoke illustration piece, and incorporated it into a retro poster-esque layout, ensuring something completely unique to sit apart from the thousands of other flyers that are thrown at students these days.
Open Mic Poster for the Blue Cat Cafe
I've just finished an Open Mic poster for the Blue Cat Cafe in Stockport. They got in touch with me out of the blue (sorry!) after finding the posters I produced for The Nook Open Mic online. The cafe looks like a bohemian sort of place, with a focus on live music, and even has its own record label. It looks well worth a visit sometime, if I'm ever in the area!
Adventures around Holmfirth
This post basically consists of a bunch of film I've shot over the last few months, and not got around to doing much with! There are some local views and some things I find interesting, mixed in with some lesser-known aspects of Holmfirth and some cataloguing of summer frivolities (if you can call it a summer so far!) I did have to conduct a little bit of trespass to capture a couple of these, but feel it's all worthwhile in the name of Art... I hope you agree! Reservoirs in the rain As the weather hasn't really let up recently, I decided ...
Some shots from further afield
These pictures are a couple of months old now - I seem to have been too busy with serious work to get them uploaded. They hail from a weekend trip to the east coast, and an early morning wander around York with a camera. All are taken using the Yashica Mat 124 and The Kodak No 1 Autographic Jr (both of which feature on my Vintage Cameras page). My favourite from whitby is the shot below of the lighthouse. It was a very windy day in Whitby (is it ever not!), and having made the effort to drag a weighty old TLR ...
Holmfirth on a Sunday morning
Amazingly the other day it didn't rain. A statistic which makes the day exceptional for the "summer" we are currently experiencing. I happened to wake up early and had a wander round the 'firth with the dog, a cup of coffee and and an old 1930s Rolleicord TLR I picked up on ebay recently which needed testing out. It was nice to be able to get a few shots of the empty streets without endless queues of traffic and heaving throngs of tourists getting in the way. The resulting shots are below. These were taken on TMax 400 and developed in FD10 ...
Logo design: Milk Street
This was a great job because I bloody love cheese. Milk Street have a regular stall on Holmfirth Market and I was referred by another stallholder for whom I have done some design work. I kind of knew what I was going for from the off on this job. The stall already has a "Milk Street" street sign hanging above it, so it went without saying that the sign element got incorporated into the design. Over and above that I thought a nice round design would lend itself well to little stickers for sealing up the greaseproof-paper wrapping around the cheese. The ...
