Framedlight

At the beginning of May I was fortunate to participate in a Bailey and Chinnery workshop based in Bosham,  www.baileychinnery.com The object of the exercise was to create some multiple exposure and ICM images, although a couple of 'normal' shots squeezed into my repertoire. Doug was unfortunately unwell and could not attend but Valda was super attentive to the group and could not have done more to help. We made images in 3 areas, around some boats which I found to be the most productive, around the church and on the shoreline. Here are the better results.

At the end of July I attended a photo workshop based at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in the St Paul's area of the city. I had not been to St Paul's for years and I was struck by how trendy it has become, it must be one of the most interesting areas of the city. The workshop was run by Paul Hill and Maria Falconer who are excellent teachers and had obviously put a lot of thought and planning into the day. There were around 10 of us and we did some classroom sessions and some practical sessions. We took our computers and shared a few of the pictures we had taken at then end of the day. The three sessions were based around 'light', 'frame', and 'vantage point'. Paul and Maria in the classroom got us to think about each of these topics, illustrating them with photographs of their own and others, thinking about things like 'what type of light we were looking at, was it direct sunlight, reflections, shadows etc. and looking to photograph ...