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02 Jun

Space Lands to be featured in Sci-Fi Magazine

Should be on the news stands this week, and available through the summer. Shame I didn’t have my iPad version of the book available for this… must sort that one out as soon as possible.
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27 May

Rocket Engines in Boron

Borax capital of the world

Rocket engines in Boron
As I was driving past the town of Boron I felt I had to make a visit. As I entered the town, I photographed the sign. I couldn’t see much town at that point. Soon I rolled in, and it seemed like a very neatly kept town. I [...]

21 May

Photographers using the iPad for portfolios

So, here I am maybe two weeks away from receiving my iPad and wondering how useful it will be for displaying my own work. I’ve been giving some thoughts as to what I’d like to do with an iPad portfolio.
I was discussing this with Michael Prince who has been presenting his portfolio [...]

17 May

Space Lands Slideshow Video

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16 May

Watermarking the future – how people look at pictures.

I feel a continuous conundrum about exposing lovely large images online, because its so easy to grab them and potentially for them to be abused. One solution to this is watermarking, but it generally just makes the images look terrible.
I’ve been thinking about whether the solution might be to just put more design [...]

23 Mar

All change…

I’ve just updated my website, and now it contains mostly personal work shot in the last year. The dreadful business conditions of the past year have had their positives and I don’t think I would have been able to generate the work on this site if I had been as busy as I’d been [...]

03 Feb

Spaceport America Runway Construction

New Mexico Spaceport Construction

One of a series of aerial photographs I made of the construction at the Spaceport America site in late October last. The pilot flew brilliantly and enabled me to get a set of perfect elevations of this 10,000 foot, 200 wide monster runway. This is the site where Virgin Galactic plan [...]

22 Jan

Private View – 4th February

Space Lands at Three White Walls, Birmingham
Its not often that an art exhibition gets two private views… however because of the poor weather on the 7th of January, my gallery, Three White Walls has graciously offered to host it again, hopefully more people will be able to come this time.
To celebrate this event and [...]

08 Jan

Birmingham Photospace

Some of the people who attended my private view last night were from Birmingham Photospace who are campaigning for a permanent world class venue for photography in Birmingham. Needless to say, I’m right behind them in this. Birmingham is a huge conurbation and whether or not one agrees with the spirit of the ‘Britain’s second [...]

08 Jan

Three White Walls exhibition, the hang

Front room, left wall

Front room, right wall

Jo, Sylvia and Naomi

Some photos from yesterday after finishing the hanging. I wasn’t sure about using the hook and line hanging system that the gallery had, but it was really fast compared to nails, rulers and all that paraphenalia. Three White Walls, and the Artlounge (who look after 3ww) [...]