On the Beach....A November Evening

Yesterday there was a glimpse of sunshine, a respite from the leaden grey skies we have had for the last few days. Sunset was just after four o'clock and high tide at 16.50 so I decided to grab some fresh air after working all day at the computer. The sun had already disappeared behind a bank of heavy grey cloud out to the west and a fierce wind was whipping spray straight in off a turbulent sea making it difficult to keep the camera lens clear and the tripod from vibrating in the wind. I always like to give some long exposures in these conditions to soften the movement of the water so the tripod is essential.
These two images are the result of my short visit - everything was getting soaked with the salty spray - and I really like the way the white foaming water and flying spray have caught the glow of light from the sky in the picture below, well worth the time spent cleaning the camera and lenses later.

In Camera ... Frankenstein at the Liverpool Everyman

Spent yesterday evening at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre photographing the youth theatre production of Frankenstein which opens tonight.

The show is an unusual but riveting rendering of the Frankenstein story and well worth a view with some fine acting by the young cast.

Calendar Competition

This weeks local paper, the Crosby Herald,  published 5/11/09, has a good piece about the calendar and is running a competition to win one of 15 signed copies. Why don't you have a go.

On the Beach....New exciting images

      

Saturday afternoon at the beach, two weeks ago, a vibrant stormy day, high tide at 15.35 and strong west winds pushing the tide forward. The clouds were moving swiftly across the sky, dark drama pierced by rays of brilliant sunlight highlighting the foaming waters and silhouetting the iron men against the angry sea.

Captured these images, some of which will soon be available in print form.

Merseytravel Art on the Network 2009 Award

Attended the prize giving for their Art on the Network 2009 Competition at Merseytravel HQ in Liverpool this morning . One of my images of Another Place  - AG309 - has won the award for the Sefton area which means that the picture will be used at a Merseytravel location, probably Waterloo station, as a sample of art in the area.

Calendar signing sessions

Saturday 10th October is going to be a busy day. I will be signing calendars between 11.00 am and 1.00pm at Crosby Fine Art, 158 College Road, Crosby then travelling down to the Albert Dock in Liverpool.
I will be at Unit 7, The Colonnades (near Liverpool Pictures and the same side as The Tate) for another signing session between 2.00pm and 4.00pm.
Maybe I will see you at one of these sessions!
Feel free to just come along and chat about the pictures if you so wish, there is a temporary exhibition of all the images from the calendar at Unit 7 which will be viewable on Saturday afternoon.

Busy Period

It has been a busy period over the last few weeks with calendar distribution and publicity taking up a fair amount of time. I have also had some time consuming commercial jobs to catch up with and a break on Italy, more of which in a later blog when I have had a chance to sort out some of the images. We went down to the beach a couple of weeks ago to take a new publicity shot for press use of me with the calendar. The idea was to capture an image with the sunset in the background. Well this worked well and you can see for the result here. The added bonus was that the sky remained glowing with saturated colours long after sunset and this resulted in some wonderful new images of the beach which will shortly be available in the print series. This is one of the new prints that will be available as AG328