Sunday 29 November 2009

Reprint Orders 2009

Christmas Cut-off Date : Monday December 14th


Please note : This year's cut-off date for Reprint Orders will be Monday 14th December. After December 14th I can not guarantee delivery before Christmas 2009.

Thank you.

Monday 23 November 2009

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Colin Gray : In Sickness and in Health

Trongate 103 (Glasgow's new Creative Arts Centre) has a Colin Gray exhibition on in the Street Level Photo Works Gallery. The exhibition runs until January 23, 2010 and it concludes Colin's series 'The Parents', which chronicles the lives of his mum and dad. I found it a very moving and thought provoking exhibition. Highly recommended.


14 November 2009 to 23 January 2010
Tue to Sat : 10:00 - 17:00
Sun : 12:00 - 17:00
(not December 23

Trongate 103
Glasgow
G1 5HD
Scotland

Tel : 0141 221 6362

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Jesus Has Left The Building : Iain Shaw

An interesting exhibition on at Mono in Glasgow is one by photographer Iain Shaw. Iain documents deconsecrated and converted former churches in Glasgow and Edinburgh using photographs, prose and sound.

A little plug for Mono. Mono is a great bar and restaurant in Glasgow. Apart from the perfunctory booze it also has a range of tasty home cooked dishes, all free of meat, fish and dairy products. It has a relaxing atmosphere and you are positively encouraged to spend time over your dinner/lunch & drinks. So get down there, check out the photography exhibition, grab a bit to eat and chill out listening to the great music provided by inbuilt (and renowned) record shop Monorail. If you're looking for a JDWetherspoon type evening you ain't gonna like Mono.


7 November to 3 December 2009
Mon - Sun 12:00pm -12:00am

Admission : Free


Mono
12 King's Court
King Street
Glasgow
G1 5RB
Scotland

Tel : 0141 553 2400

Friday 13 November 2009

Photography Exhibition : Glasgow

Berlin Wall : Future Inside the Present

The problems over at the Mackintosh Lighthouse (in Glasgow city centre) seem to be resolved. "Resolved" in this context I think means more public money is on its way. However. Their current photography exhibition is a timely affair. It's the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demolition and photographers Wolfgang Fuettere and Michelle Letowska photographed the wall's 155km circumference over a period of four years. Their photographs (exhibition link) were taken in what was called Death Strip, a no man's land between the two parallel fortifications commonly known as the Berlin Wall. Now I got a reason to go back to the Lighthouse.


24 October 2009 to 17 January 2010
Mon, Wed to Sat : 10:30 - 17:00
Tue : 11:00 - 17:00
Sun : 12:00 - 17:00

The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow
G1 3NU
Scotland

Tel : 0141 221 6362

Monday 9 November 2009

Portraits : Gwen Sinclair - Harpist

At the moment I can't pick up a wedding magazine without reading of the (premature) death of the "Wedding Season". The fact is I'm far from putting my feet up for winter hibernation. Although I'm about to order the last of this years wedding albums there's still the 'small' matter of preparing the images for printing (printed at the best photographic lab in the UK - Loxley Colour here in Glasgow) and assembling the albums (each one will take 5-6 hours). The bulk of the albums will arrive from Queensberry at the beginning of December and I'll be working on them until December 23rd. In amongst all this frantic activity I have a few more weddings in the diary together with portrait and prewedding shoots to complete and process. Phew pass the mulled wine now!

Talking of portrait shoots, I was out with Gwen Sinclair recently for a portrait shoot. Gwen, a fabulous professional Harpist, wanted new images for her publicity material. Here's a few photographs from the shoot.





Gwen is available for weddings on her own (harp) or with a flautist. Here's a link to her website link.

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Personal Work : Whitelee Windfarm

I was over at the Whitelee Windfarm at the weekend. Situated on Eaglesham Moor (20 miles from Glasgow) and with 140 turbines (generating 322MW of electricity) it's the largest onshore windfarm in Europe.

I walked some of the 90km of trails, took a few photographs and finished off with a great coffee in the Visitor Centre Cafe. Here's a few images from the day :




Whitelee Windfarm
Moor Road
East Renfrewshire
G76 0QQ
Scotland

Visitor Centre Opening:
Mon-Sun
10:00 - 17:00

Admission : Free