Exhibitions
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Shrewsbury Exhibition
Delighted with my results from the Shrewsbury Exhibition, where I received nine acceptances (surprisingly, including two in the Landscape section) and two awards. Even more pleased with the score of 14 for my newest image “The Proposal” (below). The couple was spotted in the Royal Mile at the Edinburgh Festival, promoting their show. Although they were holding bunches of leaflets, I managed to hide those from the shot and the young couple were happy to create this pose for me (hope nobody else got it!!!). The moorland background completed the scene. Many of my current batch of images have a sort of “Wuthering Heights” theme, influenced by living in Saddleworth…
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Great Barr 2013…
Eleven of my 12 entries were accepted and “Memories” received a Judge’s Award. Accepted images are shown below. These and other acceptances for recent exhibitions are shown elsewhere on the web site under Exhibition Results.
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Great Barr
Awarded photos in the Great Barr Salon of Photography 2012, one in the monochrome projected images section and four in creative projected images. The Joker: was awarded a second place Leda and the Swan: Colin Harrison’s award The others had commended certificates
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Edinburgh Salon
Edinburgh Photographic Society hold a prestigious international open exhibition each year and this year is their 150th!!! To mark this, they have struck a special commemorative medal and everyone who has a print accepted will receive one. Rumour has it that only 7.9% of prints entered were accepted this year. I was very pleased to hear that my print “Gerbera” was included and also was awarded a PAGB Gold Medal by exhibition selector Gabriel O’Shaughnessy. I was very excited at the news and I very much hope to go to the exhibition and see the prints at first hand. The irony is that Gerbera was my last-minute choice…an image that…
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Permajet Products
I always use PermaJet papers for my images and they give superb results in my Exhibition work. Mostly I use Smooth Art Silk and the textured fine art series of papers, which suit my work well. If you are unsure which paper to buy, PermaJet also do sample packs to help you to find your favourite papers and you can download free ICC profiles from the web site (see links below). PermaJet papers Picture: “Leda and the Swan” was printed on Permajet’s Smooth Art Silk paper and has to date been awarded: PSA Gold Medal, CAPA Gold Medal, Judge’s medal plus ribbons and commendations. The paper made a huge difference to how…
