Thu 25 Feb 2016
Californian and Oregon coastline road trip. After some research on landscape along the west coast of america I decided to embark on a personal assignment over there to specifically explore part of the west coast route.
This was one of many trips I’ve made to America to shoot landscape. On this occasion I decided to pick up the coast road north of San Francisco and follow it up through the state of California, into Oregon and keep going towards Seattle.
That was my aim anyway! the scenery on the way is so stunning that I didn’t quite make it all the way to Seattle, but I plan to go back to try and complete the journey sometime.
I discovered some amazing beaches with massive rock’s appearing up through the sand, large logs washed up by the dramatic Pacific ocean, and some great little towns along the way. These three images are just some of the shots I took on the trip.
Oregon coast
Portrait series specially selected for inclusion in Graphis Photo.
On my travels around the country I’d discovered a preserved railway line in Hampshire called the Watercress Line. Run totally by volunteers, they have many original steam engines and carriages that they run on a schedule at certain times of the year. The stations and ticket halls are all original and some still have the lighting working by gas.
I wanted to create some portraits of the people that worked on the line with each one placed against a backdrop reflecting the part they played in preserving the railway.
These are three of the shots I produced and which were specially selected for inclusion in this edition of Graphis Photography, shown here beautifully reproduced in the book.
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Merit award received in the Association of Photographers awards London.
Iceland landscapes. I decided to undertake a personal assignment to Iceland. It’s a place I’d wanted to visit and photograph for a long time, so I finally arranged it and made the trip.
Ten days spent driving around and exploring the country and it’s amazing landscape. For the most part really desolate with little in the way of habitation, so I spent each night sleeping in the back of my hire car.
As I was shooting with my 5X4 Wista field camera at the time, I also had to spend a lot of time in the car unloading and loading up my 5X4 dark slides with colour sheet film in a light tight changing bag.
Iceland
I went just around the start of Summer so I experienced practically twenty four hours daylight! The sun did go below the horizon around midnight or so but appeared again less than an hour later!
Quite a surreal thing to experience, but strangely it did make me keep going because of the daylight.
The shot of the Seljalandsfoss waterfall was a very special one for me, as it was so spectacular to see when I first came upon it.
I decided to enter it into the Tenth Association of photographers awards, it got selected and I received a Merit award for the picture in the landscape category.
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Merit award for my portrait series of Irish farmers.
My series of five portraits taken of Irish farmers in a remote southern part of Ireland. A bit of a step back in time with the way they work, one taking the milk to market by Donkey, another working with one of the oldest tractors I’ve ever seen!
I entered the shots into the 5th Association of Photographers awards, they were selected and I was awarded a Merit for the series of five.
Thu 25 Feb 2016
This set of four landscape shots were taken on a personal assignment shooting in Wales and The Lake District. I entered the set into the 3rd Association of Photographers awards, all four were selected. I was completely amazed to receive the Gold award for the series of four.
Subsequently, two of the shots were specially selected for inclusion in the prestigious, Graphis Photography book, the double page spread of the book shown here, along with the other two images.
