Portrait
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Conceptual Portraiture, Fantasy and Art
I love creating unique portraits with a historical twist. I often work with friends who are willing to model for me, and I dress them in costumes I’ve sourced from a variety of places—from charity shops, family and friends and even my own hand-sewn creations. My goal is for the costumes to look authentic and well-made, not like cheap “fancy-dress” outfits from China. It’s also important to me that they fit the model well. Once the model and costume are ready, I begin the photoshoot. Lately, I’ve been working in my home studio, which gives me complete control over the lighting. However, I’ve also taken many photos at outdoor events.…
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Atlantis
My latest images feature the stunning Rose, wearing a beautiful dress called “Atlantis.” It’s a mesmerizing creation, with layers of delicate, transparent fabric building up the sea’s colour palette of blues, aquamarine and turquoise. As she turns, the dress floats and flounces, catching the light in gentle waves. Rose needed to be transported to a very special setting, rather than the castle courtyard at Lincoln, where I was able to photograph her. I have given the first image a working title of “Cordelia, Born of the Sea” (Cordelia is from the Celtic language and means “…of the sea”.) The gown’s name “Atlantis”, inspired the underwater world in my second image,…
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Images for the New Season
I spent a good part of the summer working on a new talk entitled “What are we going to do about AI?”. It’s purpose is to take a look at how AI is stealthily invading our editing software, how it works, what it does, where it’s going. Having delivered the talk 5 times already, it’s now time to get back to a bit of image editing – of photographs this time! I’ve added a few of my new ones below and you will see that I am back to people pictures in the main. They are mostly new images with a couple of re-edits from the back catalogue. Gallery
