Art of Photography Show in San Diego »

Art of Photography Show in San Diego

I have just returned from the US where I had a fantastic two weeks in California, with material to potentially fill out about 5 blog posts! My main reason for going over to the States was to speak at the Art of Photography Show in San Diego. My image ‘The smothering’ was shown at the [...]

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Posted in Talks on November 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Art of Photography… and of procrastination-free speech preparation »

The Art of Photography… and of procrastination-free speech preparation

At this very moment I am trying to plan my presentation that I am giving for the Art of Photography Show in San Diego next Thursday night, in which I have an image of mine exhibited. Steven Churchill, who I met in 2009 at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, kindly offered the idea of doing [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings, Talks on October 22nd, 2010 | 4 Comments »

I’m in the Art of Photography Show 2010 »

I’m in the Art of Photography Show 2010

This blog post is intended to be a preliminary entry for the next post: where I talk about my meeting with an art curator.
It is also definitely a cause for celebration in itself, however…
I used to be disinclined to enter competitions, or I’ve tried to make more of an effort with entering my work here [...]

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Posted in Talks on July 20th, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Photocamp Bradford 2009! »

Photocamp Bradford 2009!

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My last status update on Facebook read ‘Had best day in Bradford with best family and best boyfriend’. And I was not kidding! On Saturday 5th September, I spoke at an event called Photocamp at the National Media Museum in Bradford. It has been running now for [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings, Talks on September 9th, 2009 | 15 Comments »

Palm Springs Photo Festival »

Palm Springs Photo Festival

I was in Palm Springs the other week, to attend the Photo Festival (PSPF) and give a presentation on my work on 2nd April. This opportunity was thanks to Blurb, with whom I publish my book ‘Self gazing’. They also wanted to use the time at the festival to have a meet-up with the other [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings, Inspirations - References to other artists, Talks on April 14th, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Plane ride, Palm Springs plans & more »

Plane ride, Palm Springs plans & more

Some more images from my Feb US trip… (see further below for news on my upcoming presentation at Palm Springs Photo Festival on 2nd April as well as a link to a competition for young photographers.)
Fuel stop!

Big thanks to Daniel Buchmaller who I met on my Seattle photowalk in February, who invited me one my [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 22nd, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Focus On Imaging 09 »

Focus On Imaging 09

Images and description of my talks for MS at Focus on Imaging, at the Birmingham NEC, 22nd – 25th Feb 09…

Above images: the MS booth. At this event three of my images (mounted on hardboard, 1m x 70cm) were on display on the Microsoft booth which was great. I managed to take two of them [...]

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Posted in Essays, musings, Talks, Tutorials/'making of' on March 17th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Seattle photowalk »

Seattle photowalk

On Friday 6th February (which happens to be my sister’s birthday) was the last of the photowalks – in Seattle, at an early start of 8am. It was wet weather, but this turned out to be the best one in my opinion. There was a great turnout (thanks to Paula posting on the Seattle meetup [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 7th, 2009 | Leave a comment »

Los Angeles photowalks »

Los Angeles photowalks

Now, images from the two photowalks in LA: first at Union Station, and then on Santa Monica pier. I’m now racing through these pics to get up to date!
Pictures from the first meetup at Union Station:

Above: my demo of the ‘cloning’ technique…

Above: Cresta posing by a British bus parked over the street from Union [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 4th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

San Francisco photowalks, day 2 »

San Francisco photowalks, day 2

Catching up on posting pics from my US trip!
Here are pictures from the second day of San Francisco photowalks on 3rd February 2009, first at the US memorial:

And later at Panhandle to the Conservatory of flowers:

Above: taken by Ziv Gillat

Above: taken by Ziv Gillat
More to come….including pics from LA where I met TWO Flickr pals….
Also [...]

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Posted in Talks on March 3rd, 2009 | Leave a comment »

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