I have had a long gap since my last portrait session, largely due to work pressures and the hassles of having a tiny girl around at the learning to walk stage. It was a great pleasure therefore this weekend to meet with Argyll artist Margaret Ker for a proper, no distraction portrait session. Margaret and...
This is wood turner and wood artist Richard Kennedy. I met Richard yesterday and had a pleasant afternoon learning about his passion for his craft. Richard was great company and I could have chatted with him about tools, wood and photography for ages. Richard takes his own product photographs using my old friend, the Canon...
The latest in my series of Argyll Artists is this striking gentleman. Alexander is a theatrical prop maker and designer as well as an artist with a particularly creative and quirky approach. He sees found objects like old animal bones and chunks of dead tree and sees wonderful imaginative objects in them. That of course...
It’s been a while since I have done a “100 portraits revisited”. I heard Bill Wadman on the “On Taking Pictures” podcast talking about how good Lightroom 4 is at pulling detail out of earlier sensors. This one was done on my 40D which my friend Martin now owns, and Bill was right, on updating...
