Leek daily photo 1st annual photo exhibition.

I've finally got my act together and organised my first solo photographic exhibition, it is due to start on the 20th February and will run for a month.

The venue is The coffee Clique, Getliffe's Yard in Leek, the exhibition is free of charge, but I'm sure you can be tempted to buy a coffee and cake as you look at the photos. All the images are from this blog, there is likely to be around 30 framed photos in all (the short list at the moment stands at 70 so a bit of editing still needs to be done) and all will be for sale.

As this blog has a world wide following i will also put the images on a slide show to start on line on the same day, just so you don't feel left out.

The reason for the show is that on the 14th February this blog is a year old and i wanted to celebrate the occasion in a fitting way.

This is a copy of today's post from my Leek daily photo blog, so i really have to do it now! The short list was so large i ask Caz to help, which a one point increased the number of images to around 80. We have now got it down to around the right number, so the only decision now is which will be printed large.

Picture for today is one of the images that did not make the cut.




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The White feather

Had a bit of a change last week at my other job and spent the week working in an other department, it’s strange how you get used to doing one thing all day but very quickly learn a new skill and way of doing things. My normal role involves sitting down and working on a PC, the new one is mostly stood up and walking around and quite physical, the normal one is very mind intensive, while the other is more manual. So by the end of the week I was feeling the strain in my legs and the easing of pressure in my head, quite a good trade I thought.

The other out come of the last week is that my preconceived ideas about that department were proved totally wrong, I was expecting that the more manual job would not attract people of the intelligence that I have been used to working with, but I was very wrong, although the job is manual the staff are well educated and smart, they work hard and take a pride that even the most boring task is done right. I have also seen other areas of the business at work, quite an eye opener when seen close up.

On the photography side preparations are well advanced for my first solo exhibition next month, the frames have been brought, the venue is set and the selection of prints is under way, so with all that going on I may not post here for a short while, depending on how well the rest goes of course.

Photo today was take on the same day as the last shot, the starkness of the feather jumped out at me, so I just had to try to capture it.



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Blue ice

Just a quick post to let you know I’m still around as it has been nearly a week since the last one. Spent most of this week working on images for the Leek blog and up dating the web site (no changes on there yet, it will all happen in one big rush). I’ve updated my sales page as it is held on a different site; it only had a small number of images on there and really needed to be dealt with.

To day the shot is of Ice, of which we have seen loads over the past few weeks, this shot I took down in Peterborough while away for a few days.



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Free Japanese porn. (i might as well get some visitors out of them)

I hate spam comments; in fact I nearly hate them more than word verification, but only nearly. I seem to have attracted interest from a number of spammers who use comments to advertise some very dubious Japanese porn sites, well from now on all spam comments will be deleted as soon as I see them so you are just wasting your time all you spammers out there.

As for real comments, I love them!

I’ve started to re-work my web site, a project the could take weeks, the current site was set up in a rush after my old provider ended their free service and while it looks ok it could be a lot better, so if you known of any good sites that I can use for inspiration let me known.

Picture today is from the walk last week, having loads of time to take shots it gave me the opportunity to get creative.




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Ice age

Only my second post of the year, I feel like such a slacker, still with all the great snow we have been having I have spent most of my free time out side taking photos. Even as I write it is snowing, but gray and wet so I’m not tempted to go out just yet.

After the last post that was a review of the year I thought I would do one about my plans for this year.

My main aim is to take the photography to the level where it will provide a full time income, a big step in these trying times, but I have all the relevant skills and have quite a large portfolio of images built up over the last 2 years. The first step along the way is my first solo exhibition which is in the planning stage and is set to open on the 20th of February, more on that once the details are confirmed.

The next aim is to get fitter than I am and hopefully lose some weight in the process; I even went to a Pilate’s class on Saturday and yes I was the only man there! Swimming is the other new activity I am trying to master; I’m up to 32 lengths so far and would like to double that to hit the mile mark.

Photo today was taken on Friday on the Roaches close to Leek, I had taken a day off work and spent most of that time walking in the hills and taking photos, it’s not often we get fresh snow and blue skies so it was an opportunity I could not miss.




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