SubscribePatrick William Adam:
John Miller Gray, 1850 - 1894. Art critic and first curator of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery1885
Born in Edinburgh Scotland in 1854, Patrick William Adam once said that he “was inspired to paint by the lush emerald landscapes of his homeland. The son of a well-known lawyer, Patrick chose a career in the...
I don’t often post party snaps, but these were from an evening with some fantastic colleagues, and grabbed with my 500D at ISO 3200. This is a sensitivity that I wouldn’t normally press into service on my 40 D, indeed I think it is an extended setting whereas Canon claim that the 3200 setting on...
This is Mike Ritchie. Mike is a Luthier (guitar maker if you must). This was taken yesterday in his workshop. Mike made my acoustic guitar 6 years ago and it is the most wonderful sounding guitar I have ever owned. Mike puts real passion and love into his guitars, and the results are really special....
Having a business meeting with me might just be becoming a dangerous activity now that my new but already trusty 500D has a berth in my work bag. The paperwork nailed, Roddy and I found a spot where my reflection wouldn’t appear in the windows of the car dealership where we met up. Using a...
The merits of carrying my 500D and a fast 50mm f1.4 everywhere. These portraits took about 5 minutes to snatch from an otherwise non-photographic day.
I took this on a whim while visiting some truly amazing people at Edinburgh University this week. The building is called St John’s Land and something about the interplay of the building’s symmetry juxtaposed against the offset drainpipes appealed to me. As you know architecture is not my specialism, but variety is good for a...
Who is this devastatingly handsome Canadian I hear you ask? Well it’s none other than my colleague and friend Jim Craigen. I posted a picture of jim in a candid moment a few postings ago and joked that he looked like a TV detective. Well Jim has been in Scotland since then and on the...
This was my 2nd favourite shot from Jess’s session during my 100 portraits project. It was done in the cloisters at Glasgow University and provided my firstreal taste of deeply interesting light. I seek out side sources of light now if I can find them, but I was still learning then. This was at ISO...
You know how you can either get lucky or horribly unlucky with who you get placed next to on a flight. Well this wonderful person happened to be billeted next to me on the otherwise tedious transatlantic hop from Toronto to London. Caroline is a seriously good singer and a world class conversationalist with a...
