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Classic in Crimson
It’s been a while since I posted anything creative, so here is one I made during the summer…a little more like my usual style, entitled “Classic in Crimson”.
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Southport Open Exhibition of Photography
Southport Exhibition of Photography 2015 This year, Southport Photographic Society are celebrating their 68th Annual Open Exhibition of Photography, run under the auspices of the BPE (British Photographic Exhibitions). I feel that I have had a great affinity for Southport Photographic Society for many years and I hope that I am seen as a friend of the club by their members. Southport was one of the first clubs where I judged a regular photographic competition and one of the first where I delivered a lecture, back in what now seems to be the mist of time and it was the first BPE Exhibition of Photography that I entered, the first…
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Inspired by Valentine’s Day
A little altered reality entitled “Paint it Red”, inspired by Valentine’s Day. Two mischievous characters are painting hearts and hanging them up to dry…or you might have an alternative interpretation.
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Make a Facebook Cover Photo Collage
If you are fed up with being restricted to a single photograph as your Facebook cover photo, why not try a collage of pictures that show off your style? In the past, I’ve used a template given away freely, but today I decided to make my own, using Lightroom. Here are the instructions to make one: 1. Make a collection Select a few photographs that you will use for your shortlist…maybe ten or more. Add them to a collection. For this task, the quick collection will be good enough. In the grid view add photos to the quick collection by mouse-click on the little round symbol which appears when you…
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End of Year round up of some of my favourite images from 2014
My end of the year round up is a selection of some of the pictures I have enjoyed making the most over the past year. To share their blushes, I have left out family portraits…naturally they would be at the very top of the list – pictures that bring back memories of the events of the year, from the birthday of my grand-daughter in January to the birth of my second grandson in July and the birthday of my first grandson in November – moments to treasure…along with the photos of my father with his new great-grandson only a week before he suffered a stroke which took his life. These…
