After a short break we’re back with picture number 12 from our Peterborough Exhibition.
I’d love to say this is somewhere exotic but in fact it is a picture taken in my garden. Sometimes simple is very effective!
If you’d like to see more of the pictures from our exhibition just click on the picture
I seem to have let my promise of a picture a day from our exhibition lapse a little bit but never fear, before the weekend finishes I thought I’d sneak one in!
So here we are with a HDR picture called Flooded Path. This is Peterborough river embankment when it flooded a few months ago. It was quite by chance that I took a walk down there with my camera but I’m glad I did as I captured some great shots.
If you want to see some more of our prints that are currently on display in Peterborough Museum just click on the picture and you’ll be taken to the web page where we are raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Here we are with the second post of the day and the 3rd in the run of my exhibition pictures.
This is a HDR picture of the entrance to the Bishop’s Palace in Peterborough. Unfortunately it wasn’t a particularly sunny day when I did this picture but as we pretty devoid of sunny days at the moment I thought it best not to wait for one as it could be a long wait!
If you want to see the prints that are on display just click on the picture and you’ll be taken the exhibitions page on my website. Please consider purchasing one of my prints as we are donating 50% of the profits to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Well we’ve done it! At last, our first photography exhibition is up and running at Peterborough Museum.
There were times in the run up to this that I thought it may not happen. It has not been the most efficient of venues to work with, I have to say, but we got there in the end.
As we are raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support through the exhibition it was very important to me that this should happen and I found at times the speed with which everything was moving i.e. slowly, very frustrating.
But as I said, at last it has arrived. The hours of hard work and determination have paid off and now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that we actually sell some items and raise some money.
We’re in Peterborough for today’s blog post and a trip to the river Nene and Peterborough Embankment.
Although the sky sums up the weather at the moment i.e. grey and stormy, it does add some extra interest to the picture.
Let’s hope for some sunnier weather soon and some brighter pictures!
To view more of my work please click on the picture and you’ll be taken to my website. If you want to contact me about any of my photography there is a contact us page on the site.
My post today is another of my ‘revisited’ images. This one is Peterborough Cathedral where I’ve previously done a few photo shoots as the architecture and atmosphere lends itself to some great photography.
However, although I had given some of my previous photos the HDR treatment it wasn’t done in the 100% correct way (briefly – you take one pic under exposed, one normal and one over exposed then combine). In Photoshop it is possible to give a photo a HDR feel with just one picture – the results are OK but not the best.
So, I thought it was about time I stopped being lazy and went back and did these shots properly and even hand-held (it is recommended to use a tripod but I hadn’t taken mine!) the results, I think, are superb.
For more of my work and also for some of the original versions of the Cathedral pictures click on the photo and you’ll be taken to my website.
Have a great evening 🙂
Today’s post is another picture that I revisited recently.
A few weeks ago I took a trip to Orton Mere in Peterborough to do some photography but only had my small compact with me. I was pleased with the results but I didn’t feel I’d done the subject justice so I took another trip with my DSLR for some proper HDR shots.
This time both the sky and the reflections have really come alive and look amazingly vibrant so it was trip well spent.
For more work just click on the picture and you’ll be taken to my website where I am constantly adding new work.
My blog post today is another recent picture that I took a couple of days ago.
This one is a place called Orton Mere in Peterborough and I thought even though there is some fast moving water I’d try for the HDR effect. Luckily the latest version of Photoshop is able to cope with this and I am really pleased with the result.
I know other blog posts give you all the camera settings etc. which is great but I haver to be honest I am to lazy to look back and then type up all the settings I used so if you want to know please feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to tell you all about it.
If you’d like to have a look at some more of my work please click on the picture and you’ll be taken to my website.
Thanks all 🙂
Today’s blog post is a picture of somewhere that is very special to me as it is the actual place that I was born in!
Thorpe Hall in Peterborough is now a Sue Ryder Hospice but between 1943 and 1970 (the year I was born) it was a maternity hospital.
Now, thanks to Wikipedia, here is a potted history of this magnificent house.
‘Thorpe Hall at Longthorpe in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire is a Grade I listed building, built by Peter Mills between 1653 and 1656, for the Lord Chief Justice, Oliver St John. The house is unusual in being one of the very few mansions built during the Commonwealth period. After a period as a hospital, it is currently used as a hospice.
While Parliamentary soldiers were in Peterborough in 1643 during the civil war, they ransacked the cathedral. Parliament disposed of Church property to raise money for the army and navy and the parliamentarian Oliver St John bought the lease to the manor of Longthorpe and built Thorpe Hall. In 1654 it was described by the author John Evelyn as “a stately place…built out of the ruins of the Bishop’s Palace and cloisters.”
Thorpe Hall is situated in a Grade II listed garden that is open to members of the public throughout the year. The curved walls forming the entrance courtyard, gatepiers and entrance gates,former stables to the right, and a shouldered stone architrave gateway flanked by vertically halved pilasters with volutes are also Grade I listed buildings. The late nineteenth century lodge, octagonal summerhouse in red brick with fish scale slate roof, and a free-standing archway resembling a Venetian window in design are Grade II listed buildings.
A maternity hospital from 1943 to 1970, it was transferred to the National Health Service in 1948. In 1986 it was acquired by the Sue Ryder Foundation and is currently in use as a hospice.’
So there you go, and here it is presented in full HDR glory.
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Well this week was a turning point in IMJ Photo-Art’s career as a photo-artists. How so you may ask….well this week some of our prints have finally made their way into a high street store in our home city of Peterborough.
Now this may not seem very exciting to some of you but I have to say I’m very proud that all the long hours and hard work are finally beginning to show some signs of being worthwhile . Of course we have to now actually sell some but the shop Manager is confident and that’s good enough for me!
Our prints compliment their range very nicely (even if I do say so myself) and I’m sure this is the start of bigger and better things!
Keep your fingers crossed for us and wish us well 🙂
Thoughts of a Peterborough artisan 