Re-enactment
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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
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A Long Winter Take 2 -Tudor Style Portraits
An update to my Long Winter blog earlier this month. Occupying my thoughts, for some time, has been my hope to set up a photographic studio permanently in my garage. That won’t be possible just yet, so I am carrying all the lighting equipment up to my living room and setting up there. Before Christmas I decided to make some Tudor clothing for Mike. I would stretch my sewing ability as well as my photography and Photoshop skills. I made a Tudor doublet and a “bonnet” style hat and the look was completed with a lace ruff bought on-line. Amazingly they fit perfectly. The first session of photographs was meant…
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46th Smethwick International Exhibition Results
I didn’t get around to entering any exhibitions last year, so this year I was lucky to have enough images to enter the Smethwick International, one of my favourites. This is in spite of a rather poor year in producing salon-type creative images, though a rather good year in developing my skills in nature photography. Smethwick was one of the first internationals where we were able to actually visit to see the prints on the wall. We have often travelled down in the snow and ice of the New Year to see the exhibition at the Old Schoolhouse and to meet up with friends…but this year, due to restrictions, it…
