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Wednesday 8 August 2012
Tuesday 31 July 2012
Thursday 7 June 2012
Ramon Andreas and Londoner's photography competition
Ramon Andreas, one of our photographers has
recently made it to the final 25 in the Londoner's photography competition,
here Ramon explain how he shot it.
'I am lucky enough to live near Richmond Park where I
often go walking but had wanted for some time to return before dawn with my
camera to see what images I could capture.
After many date changes due to bad weather or other commitments, a date
was finally set and I agreed to meet my friend, Martin, at Richmond Park. When the day arrived, one very cold and
frosty December morning in 2011, it was still pitch black outside when I left
the house bundled up in several layers of warm clothing and armed with a flask
of hot coffee as well as my camera equipment!
I met Martin, a talented landscape photographer, in Richmond and
carrying our cameras and tripods we soon set to task. After spending some time photographing the
river as the sun was rising, I noticed that the early morning light had lit up
a large tree to my left so that it glowed a magnificent orange. I have always
been interested in urban landscapes so I thought that the tree contrasted against
the grey building blocks in the background and the frosted grass in the
foreground would make an interesting image. I took a few shots and in the last
one I decided to include the empty bench to give a sense of solitude to the
photograph. After an hour traisping around Richmond Park taking more pictures,
we were both happy with the photographs we had taken and decided to call it a
day and headed to a nearby café to warm ourselves up. Although waking up early on a cold winter’s
morning and leaving behind a warm bed can be hard, it was definitely worth it
to enjoy the peace and solitude of Richmond Park at dawn and the opportunity to
capture some beautiful images as the sun went up.'
See here for more information about the World Photography Organisation.
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Grant Falvey Environmental Photographer finalist.
One if our photographers, Grant has become a finalist at the Environmental Photographer of the year awards, which we featured on a previous posting here. This is what Grant has to say and his images...good luck!
"the fox and the banana"
It was a very cold and snowy December in 2010 and I was on assignment to photograph Bluewater in the snow from the cliff tops around the complex. After taking a few frames from my usual spot, I moved onto a housing estate to try and get access from a block of flats for a higher position, but as I was driving into the estate I could not believe what was looking straight at me from a hedge.
It was a very glossy and healthy fox just standing watching me drive past. It did not move and did not seem to be afraid of the car, it just stood there. So knowing that I had my 300mm on board I pulled over, set up and took a few quick frames before he ran off!
But he did not run, in fact he came closer. He must be hungry I thought. So being a quick thinking photographer I ran back to my car and grabbed the first piece of food from my lunch that came to hand, which on this day happened to be a banana.
Thinking to myself, do Fox's eat banana's, I just threw the fruit into the snow and got ready to shoot just incase they did! To my amazement this cool fury brown character walked over picked up the banana and legged it into the hedge. Wow, they do eat Banana's! I laughed to myself.
Checking my image's on the pre-view screen I could not believe it. If you had told me before I left the house that day that I would have pictures of a fox holding a banana in the snow by midday I would have laughed in your face.
Even more crazy was the fact that not only did this brave fox take my banana he had come back for more. So I gave him two more, that's three banana's in 10 minutes, my sandwich and a few biscuits.
The fox had cleaned me out! So feeling hungry myself and needing a Christmas picture I popped to the local shops to buy a pack of mince pies and went back armed with them to try my luck again.It worked, the chap ate the lot, and six mince pie's later I had one very nice frame of a fox holding onein his mouth.
A great morning and one that was topped of for me 9 months later with a shortlisting in an international photographic competition with one of these pics. " The Fox and the Banana" has been shortlisted in CIWEN Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 to the last 377 out of 10.000 images from photographers in 105 countries .
Fingers crossed you never know!
Grant Falvey
Tuesday 6 September 2011
A new selection of disability images
Our photographer Jon has just sent us a great new collection of disabled youngsters playing football in electric powered wheel chairs.
To see more click here
To see more click here
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Some of your recent work
Monday 18 July 2011
Images that are selling...
Below are some of our images that are been viewed and are selling at present.
The categories are very much centred around local communities and those clients who are buying, are in the local and central government sectors. We still need more images to cover this subject area.
The categories are very much centred around local communities and those clients who are buying, are in the local and central government sectors. We still need more images to cover this subject area.
Keep uploading.....
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