A Blog Birthday and The Competition!

Well, well, well ladies and jellyspoons, this here blog has been open for business for nearly one entire year. The anniversary proper is on 21st November; all that way back in 2010 I kicked off with two posts in one day (ker-azzzeee, right?). So in the weeks leading up to that momentous date, you'll have not one, not two, but three chances to WIN an 8x12in print of your choice from any of the images posted on the site. 

Wow. I mean, wow. 

All you'll have to do to be in with a chance is to comment on one of the special WHOOP DE DOO posts going up on the 7th, 14th, and 21st November, and leave a comment telling me your favourite image from any of those posted herein. Have a browse around - you'll find work and personal, 'straight' and 'doctored' images, paper cut-outs, collages, street and studio and seaside shots. Which is your favourite?

That's right! That's all! I'll then choose a comment from each post at random and that person will receive the print of their heart's desire signed and dated by me.


Thanks so much for viewing. Any other comments on my work are, of course, gratefully received.

Helianthus

More papercraft / photography, inspired by, in part, the Cottingley Fairy images, and the turning of the earth away from the sun. This was my first shot yesterday afternoon but I think I'll be using three of the later shots, flowers cast on stony ground. Unlike yesterday's shot, this is edited digitally but not manipulated. The paper flowers are planted in the soil.

Autumn and a competition

Another experiment in combining papercraft and photography. 

 

A teaser: the blog is almost a year old (how time flies!) and I'll be announcing a competition to celebrate that fact we get nearer to the day itself so keep your eyes peeled.

Collages

Sometimes when I run a bit dry on the old photographic ideas I want to keep a creative hand in. And when that happens I make collages. Here are three I made today. It's a kind of run-on from the Birdbook illustrations I did for Sidekick Books, which were a combination of papercraft and digital manipulation, but these are just good old-fashioned cutouts, paper, scalpel, and glue.

NEW VENUE - Brixton Empire

A new venue in Brixton is the latest addition to my client roster. Brixton Empire is housed in St. Matthew's Church and opens TONIGHT with this terrific production of Laurence Holder's When the Chickens Came Home to Roost. Directed by the Empire's Artistic Director Daljinder Singh, it's the story of the relationship and power struggles between Elijah Muhammed and Malcolm X. It runs until November 4th so get your tickets in! My photographs below feature Peter Landi as Elijah Muhammed and Ricky Fearon as Malcolm X.

 

www.brixtonempire.com