I am in love – with my new business cards for my Birmingham Street Style project that have arrived from MOO today. They are printed on matte laminate paper sourced from sustainable forests. The fronts featuring my new logo are all the same – but there is a selection of ten(!) different images on the back.
What does a photographer do on a quiet Saturday night? Testing coloured gels portrait lighting setup on my favourite model, Helen, in our living room. Helen is a hairdressers mannequin we bought to stand in for John when he got tired of his onerous modelling duties (you know the kind, “Please-please-please, just…
I had a lump in my throat when I watched Sue Bryce, a portrait photographer and educator, encouraging people to #existinphotos during her CreativeLive workshop. Everyone deserves a beautiful portrait of themselves, especially women – wives, mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers. I heard Germain Greer speak in Birmingham about this phenomenon of the…
On August 5 2014 I sent out an open call via Facebook , Twitter and Google+ for volunteer models that would like to take part in a new photography project called URBAN PORTRAITS DUMFRIES. The project aims to create collaborative portraits of Doonhamers in various Dumfries town centre locations where the…
I have recently made a few posts on social media encouraging you to join the Print2014 trend and print and enjoy your digital photos in a tangible way rather than displaying them on your IPhone or computer screen. I have been inspired by a series of ‘quotes by NoOne’ from…
WE HAVE MOVED – from Birmingham to Dumfries in Scotland! John, my husband, has accepted a research post offer from the University of Glasgow, with the synthetic biology project based at the University’s research park in Dumfries. Like an army spouse, I have to relocate too! I feel overwhelmed and…
My big thanks to Myra Smith, Morrisons Community Champion, who alerted me that my photo of Morrisons Foundation donating £17,000 to Nith Inshore Revenue was published in D&G Life Magazine! And here’s the photo: