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Blog 58 - Birmingham Jewellery QuarterSaturday with @igersBirmingham for a instameet around the Jewellery Quarter this was to celebrate its architectural heritage they had teamed up with the JQBID and the Townscape Heritage project Heritage Townscape is a 3-year long project that is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of the project is in part to document and preserve the architectural heritage of the Jewellery Quarter. The images taken on the instameet and shared to the event hashtag will help them with this documenting process. Started at St Pauls Church and did a walk around 10 different buildings like the Argent Centre built 1862 as a pen factory, Alabaster & Wilson founded in 1887 producing fine jewellery for over 130 years and photograph the buildings along the way and ended up at the pub for much needed brandy to warm up. Considering I live not far from hear its always amazes me that I never visited great architecture to be seen and some real Birmingham history. @igersbirmingham Is an welcoming community of photographers who have a passion for photography and the local Birmingham community would certainly recommend you follow any level of photography welcome to join on meet ups. Just a few shots from the day
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Saturday 26th January instameet in the Jewellery Quarter Birmingham to celebrate its architectural heritage Igers Birmingham teamed up with the JQBID and the Townscape Heritage project
Heritage Townscape is a 3-year long project that is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of the project is in part to document and preserve the architectural heritage of the Jewellery Quarter. The images taken on the instameet and shared to the event hashtag will help them with this documenting process. Blog 57 - Woodland Walk Hay Wood There is something satisfying about just going out for walk without any planning checking sunrise and sunsets, weather reports or tide tables, just your camera and a walk, if get a shot its a bonus so with that on Saturday afternoon we did just that. So off to my local wood close to NT Baddesley Clinton and have photographed before Hay Wood its a peaceful ancient woodland site with a great diversity of wildlife to look out for, foxgloves, bluebells, birds, butterflies, rabbits and Muntjac deer are just a few you could encounter. Hay Wood is the perfect place to get away from it all and relax. The weather was extremely grey and overcast so no moody misty woodland shots but to be honest took a few shots but really they were really just an excuse to use the camera and practising a few different styles, a few hrs outside certainly felt good and after straight to the local coffee shop for a cake and coffee a good afternoon, would certainly recommend. Location details: Hay Wood Warwickshire Postcode aprox: B93 0DG Grid ref: SP 2108 7131 . Blog 56 - Coate Water Park The Water Park is a country park situated just south of central Swindon, near junction 15 of the M4. It takes its name from its main feature, a reservoir originally built to provide water for the Wilts & Berks Canal The reason for the visit was the a 33ft high concrete diving platform in an Art Deco style that stands proudly out of the water built in 1935 and has been granted in 2013 Grade II listed status as I understand there are very few surviving Art Deco concrete diving boards left in the UK, so this could be another 2019 project to find and photograph the remaining. Very simple image was all I wanted using a Lee 10 stop ND Filter and 3 stop grad filter to bring down the sky and Lee Polariser Camera on bulb mode at f8 - Iso 64 - 200 second exposure using my sigma 17mm-70mm at 17mm Park has a lot to offer for a walk around the lakes plenty of wildlife and great coffee shop serving food and snacks. Coate Water Park Marlborough Rd Swindon SN3 6AA Blog 55 - Happy New Year 2019! January 2019 where did 2018 go, I had good year with photography in 2018 visited many places throughout the UK and some bucket list places did get ticked off, some great experiences from places I visited, it was year I picked up a new camera D500 and have to say very pleased with it and I was shortlisted for the British Photography Awards. “Review” I like to look at my 2018 images at the end of the year and pick my best 12 but also look at ones that didn’t work as well, doing this will often help you improve, it could be location / composition wasn’t correct or the light a sunrise would have worked instead of a sunset etc I find this very therapeutic and also a mental note of places i want to visit again. “Printing” is a must I did Print a lot of my 2018 images and will continue to do this as you really do feel satisfied once you hold the print in your hands and the memories of that shot come back to you. I have for the second year produced calendar which is great to look at monthly and makes you look at image for whole month and it really makes you think how I could have taken the image differently. “Software”I use Adobe Lightroom for the very good asset management of my photographs and of course to edit the RAW images but It's easy enough to keep using software the same old way even after an update, especially if you choose to auto-update the software you often don’t even realise what’s the new features etc so i’m going to push myself in learning a lot more with the Lightroom / photoshop suite. “Gear” I like gear as everyone will say it dose not matter what camera you use or how much it costs etc, but i still like gear I have camera I’m very happy with and my lenses are ok, my drone is ok but at the moment I am thinking no purchase of gear for me in 2019 I do actually have everything i want! its a first for me, but my goal for this year is no gear. “Stock” photography in 2018 been good, Shutterstock my images work well, then Adobe and Getty images just tick over, then other agency very little so need to explore other options and put the time into the ones that work. Video is something i didn’t get round to in 2018 so going to try a few ideas this year for stock. 2019 for me is open plan at the moment I will try and get a London trip in January and one of my goals is to photograph local this may be city / street photography or my local wood I would like to do a different motorsport this year and interested in photographing the DTM at Brands Hatch in August. and of course aerial photography new challenges with laws coming into effect in 2019 The most important thing is just to get out and enjoy.  |
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