The above photograph has now been place in to the Crowded Gallery. It is from Normandy, and shows a little girl playing in the window of a French chateau.
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….as opposed to ‘leaving Las Vegas’. This was taken the actual moment I entered Vegas - a strange and ridiculously hot venue for a town. Nevertheless, a great place to go, even just to see the diversity of people. This was one of the first places I visited on a road trip a few years back - eventually finishing in San Francisco.
The trip was made up of commercial commissions and ‘my photography’, and I remember getting literally thousands of transparencies back from the lab. I guess I have the same problem now with digital photos.
This image is in the Crowded Gallery.
The last week or so has been spent photographing in Normandy - everything from the streets of small rural villages, to emotional visits at the American War Memorial there. As yet, the photos are unsorted, but I will upload some shortly.
Sometimes a print just doesn’t make it to the Crowded Gallery, no matter how much I like it. Sometimes, I just like a print because I liked being there at that point in time. Irrespective of what the final image comes out like, I will always like it. That is the case with this photograph.
I guess I liked it because it was taken on my thirtieth birthday a few years back (ok, 6 years ago). I had been on a short visit of about four days, and had just spent the morning of my 30th getting lost in the back streets of the capital, Vilnius. I stopped off at a cafe (mainly serving either coffee or vodka) and took this photo of a woman deep in prayer. It literally was taken by candle light using a rangefinder camera - and the final print is very grainy.
A few years ago I had a commission to photograph Las Vegas from the air for Virgin. Usually I am terrified of flying in planes and helicopters, but Virgin actually operated a blimp (maybe still do) that flew at dusk over the city, and the main strip (I might post a photo soon).
For photography, the blimp was great, it moved very slowly, allowing me to get night shots while hand holding the camera. Anyway, the day after the commission I took a trip out to the Grand Canyon, where I took this photo at sunset.
This photo can be purchased from the Crowded Gallery.
The Crowded Gallery has undergone a few changes in the last few days. The main change being a reduction in prices, which came about due to a decision not to supply mounts with the photographs any more.
The mounts made the photographs more expensive, in that the packaging became a huge concern. A lot of people were asking for the photos without mounts, as they had their own framing arranged, or simply didn’t want one.
Out of that decision comes a reduction in costs for me. So, it is only fair to pass that on. Hence, the prices of the photographs have reduced to the following:
12 x 8″ inch (approx A4 size) is now £30 + postage (approx US $60)
16x 12″ inch (approx A3 size) is now £45 + postage (approx US $90)
22 x 17″ inch (approx A2 size) is now £65 + postage (approx US $130)
Postage costs will vary depending on where you are in the World. Prints are still limited to editions of 50, signed, and posted within five days.
Go on…you know you need one for a birthday present…..
Last night was the launch of the RIBA book titled, Birmingham: Shaping the City
I was the Photo Editor for the book, and photographer for some of the projects, while Ben Flatman was the Author (who spent years researching it).
After saying I was looking to do more work in black and white, I get a commission to photograph a ‘new’ area of Birmingham city centre in black and white for an ad campaign. I’m not sure how ’secret’ the campaign is, so I’ll keep quiet!
I haven’t yet finished photographing the original campaign to market the whole of Birmingham - but here are a few more samples - again sorry about the heavy watermarking. They aren’t all meant to obviously say Birmingham, but give a feel of a ‘quality Birmingham’.
The colours look a bit muted on here - they are pretty saturated colours on the originals!
