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RPS Landscape Group Shipping Forecast project

The task was to take images in each of the Shipping Forecast sea areas which bordered land (17 of them). This image was the winner for sea area Lundy. It is a composite of landing puffins on the island of Skokholm off Pembrokeshire and may have won because the word Lundy is an old Norse word for puffin. The project was probably inspired by Mark Power’s wonderful 1990s project called the Shipping Forecast, which he photographed in all 31 sea areas. The project was expanded and reprinted in 2022. The Royal Photographic Society project can be found here

Puffins landing on Skokholm. Shipping forecast for the day (14th May 2023) Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, southwest 3 or 4, veering northwest 4 to 6. Smooth or slight at first in Irish Sea, otherwise slight or moderate, occasionally rough in Fastnet. Rain then showers, moderate or poor, becoming good.

Shutterhub Yearbook 2024

I’m very pleased that the Tessellate image Crop Circles has been selected for Shutterhub’s Yearbook 2024. As they say “YEARBOOK is our annual awards for photographers, open to all, whatever stage they are at in their career. The Awards and exhibition are promoted to people working within the creative industries and to those who commission photography. We reach out to editors and publishers to share work with them and introduce them to photographers they may not yet know about. The YEARBOOK directory showcases work from over 250 photographers from across the world…and is a group show, promoting the skill and talent of photographers working now. We invite you to explore the gallery and the huge range of styles and subjects from photographers across the world”. You can see the full gallery here

 



Marlborough Open Studios, July 2024

I am showing the project Tessellate as part of Open Studios again this year in Avebury with Pascale Stacey. We’re open on the first 2 weekends of July and Thursdays and Fridays during the first 2 weeks. Details can be found here on the Open Studio website and on the page below. I’ve printed the image Tree of Life as a large banner which is now on the side of the house.

The White Horse 7th Annual Open Art exhibition

The summer exhibition came to Marlborough last night with a packed opening at the White Horse Gallery. 150 local artists are showing their work until 1st June and it all looked fantastic. One of my cyanotypes from the project Nocturne is on view

RPS social media

I’m thrilled that this image from the project Las\rever is being featured on the Royal Photographic Society social platforms as part of their programme to celebrate members’ photography. Five members have been chosen to feature work in the run up to the Photography and Video Show. Here’s a link to the RPS Instagram and Facebook pages and more from my project can be seen here.

Marlborough Open Studios, Avebury, July 2023

I’m showing images from a project called Nocturne. I placed a wildlife camera in a nearby wood which animals have self-triggered on their wanderings. Sometimes this is at night and their eyes reflect the infrared light. The prints on show are handmade argyrotypes and cyanotypes, handmade analogue photographic processes with roots back to the invention of the medium. More details here.

The second image shows a large banner of the image One of a Million Sunrises, Silbury Hill which is being displayed in July on the outside of the studio right in the middle of the Avebury stone circle.

RPS Landscape Group By Degrees project

This project challenged RPS members to make images at the 45 locations where the lines of latitude and longitude meet in the British isles. I liked the idea of this project and so selected one location in Wiltshire (51N and 2W). It is in a lovely part of Cranborne Chase at the southern end of the county close to the intersection with Hampshire and Dorset. The nearest village is Bowerchalke where the river Chalke rises and flows into the nearby River Ebble. The puddle-arrow and the fence in the images below point to the exact spot in the middle of the field. All the submitted images from the project can be viewed here and a selection were published in the Landscape Group magazine issue 10

Avebury Chapel

Installation of a triptych from the project Palimpsest in the Avebury Chapel. The chapel includes an exhibition about Avebury and the local landscape and is open on certain days throughout the year. I included the following description of the work:

These clumps of trees are situated near Hackpen Hill along the Ridgeway, 4 miles from Avebury. They are near the site of one of eight white horses in Wiltshire which was cut to celebrate Queen Victoria’s coronation. Clumps of beech trees often appear along local ridges and are considered to have been planted in the 19th century perhaps to provide shelter along ancient by-ways or even to enhance the landscape visually. This they certainly do and in this triptych of images I positioned myself where the sunrise would occur behind the right hand clump.

There’s a bit about the chapel here, but at the time of writing does not include anything about the latest exhibition which has been organised by the Parish Council.