Silhouettes

These photos where taken one night with a few friends sitting around next to the ponds having a little jam on the guitar. I really tried to use the city lights in the background to create a multi tonal display from very light at the center to dark round the edges.

With Silhouette work shapes are the most important aspect so I tried to keep them simple and defined, so in the first photo you can clearly make out a human figure looking up at the tree line or in the second to last photo it is easy to see the shape of the guitar.

These shoots worked really quiet well and I would like to try more images like these.

Christening

I recently assisted a photographer at a christening, so I was not really there to capture the main bulk of the photos but I managed to sneak a few in there where I could. I like to try and capture natural moments of interest or cuteness at events like this, I quite like the expressions in the babies face in these photos.

I also like the togetherness of the middle photo as mother and daughter sing together wearing similar coloured tops.

Black and White Colour

Ah the history brush tool is a powerful tool for all those family portrait photographers who are asked to create "funky" images. It can be used in some cool ways, these photos show that a simple photo can be given a different feel be selecting certain sections of colour.

The red and the green in the strawberry work really well and stand out distinctly with the white surrounding. Plus the amount of movement and excited poses by the model give the pictures a very playful and dynamic aspect to them.

Me in the Forest

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! ! ! !

Terry and Toby

This is a random guy who we met as he wanted to take a photo of me and Sophie, which I said was fine as long as I got one of him and his dog. I like the way they are both smiling and also that their names both start with 'T' it was pretty cute.

Garden

These are some of the photos of the girls from that days photo-shoot. They all have a fun and happy feel to them with lots of smiles, helped by the golden shine from the sunshine which complements their skin tone beautifully.

Sophie - Passionate Photography

These are photos of my friend Sophie who is a profession photographer covering a range of things from family portraits to sporting events. We spent some time just messing around in a section of burnt forest which is far dirtier than I originally had planned for, but it was a pretty cool back drop.

Check out more of Sophie's Stuff by clicking here

Nice and UnNice . . . .

These two shots where taken later on in the day when the girls were getting restless and their attention span was beginning to fade, which made it a bit harder to get the right settings and the right actions / facial expressions from them.

In these photos I wanted to have the juxtaposition of the cute petty model with the tatty, rusty background.

Liu Bolin

35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be. He works on a single photo for up to ten hours!

He says his art is a protest against the actions of the Chinese Goverment, who shut his studio down in 2005, I say its flipping genius !!!!

Hollow Ponds

These photos where taken five minutes away from my house at a place called Hollow Ponds. Really I went over there to just mess around with a borrowed 450D and get some practice in an extremely sunny environment, it was a very hot and bright day. I played about a lot with shutter speed, aperture, iso's and focus settings ect. to try and get a good mix to create correctly light shots. It was actually quite difficult not to over expose certain areas whilst under exposing others.

Here we mostly have close ups of some foliage, I really like the photos of the due on the grass you get some interesting shapes and re-fractions of the light in the droplets.

Dawn - Sharks in Her Hair

This song is called ' Dawn ' it was predominately written by Dre with vocals preformed by Lee. I lent a helping hand with regards to vocals but must of the work was done by Lee and Dre. This song is probably our most evolved piece of music to date, unlike most of our stuff it has a drum line, guitar layers and a solid structure.

Again this is not the fully finished article but I do think it shows real progression and has the potential to be a very good song, seen as it shows its self to be very catchy if you listen to it a few times. So go ahead try it for yourself. . . Sorry if the volume is a bit low.

Also press the play button below for a straight up acoustic version of the above song.

Initial names for band and album - Achilles Heel, Last Minute

Spencer Tunick

I like some of the images Spencer Tunick has created because of their awkward, rigid and freaky nature. To me the photos feel quiet uneasy in the way they are set up, especially when you have hundreds of people turning their back to the viewer making u feel like an outcast for being the only one wearing clothes.

Artist Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public since 1992. Since 1994 he has organized over 75 temporary site-specific installations. Individuals en masses, without their clothing, grouped together metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces.

That is part of the bio from his web site spencertunick.com

Sergei Larenkov

Sergei Larenkov has created a large number of these erie photos in a exhibition of here and now. The photos are set in his home town of Saint Petersburg or Leningrad as it was know during the second world war. At that time the Nazis had laid siege to the city starving it of supplies and leaving the population to suffer hunger and the cold.

He has visited the exact sites of the original photographs to take pictures of the same place at the same angle and then superimposed the two together. I really like these pictures they create such a strong vision of the past matched with the present and really hit home how hard those times must of been.

Oh la la Paris

These are some photos that I took whilst in Paris a few years ago, I have played around a bit with the colour of all this pictures and given them an old feel resembling the warm colours of an silent movie. This colour scheme seemed fitting for the feel of Paris maybe due to its historic architecture and also in-keeping with French cinematic aesthetic, even the picture of the modern sport/dance of break dancing has a aged feel to it.

I particularly like the last photo of the male and female embracing, I'm not sure whether it has a loving feel to it or one of over empowerment. I think I question the motives of it because I found this on a larger sculpture known as 'The Gates of Hell' by Musee Rodin or for you Frenchies out there 'La Porte De L'Enfer'. It was by far my favourite piece of art work that I came across whilst in Paris.