Thomas McEldowney Photography
What I like about this picture is that in all the time i have been in Manchester and all the times i have climbed on Snowdonia I never knew that the range could be seen from Manchester… or in this case, East Manchester / Stockport. The power plant is Fiddlers Ferry in Widnes, and to the left in the background you can see the mountains of Snowdonia
From a recent PR shoot for a local civil engineering firm….
I know George from the allotment, known him for a while now. George is originally from Limerick but lived here in Manchester since he was 18. For the past 39 years George has had a smallholding somewhere between the river Mersey and the M60 motorway, on wednesday I went down to see him….
i’m not sure George ever really did leave Limerick, or whether he brought Limerick over with him but its a great site, in the middle of this industrial city as the electrical substation pulses on one side and the roar of the motorway is on the other there is a man pottering about his business, lost in a world of pigs, goats, cattle, chickens and a polecat… its great.
Thank you very much to George and his wife Kay for allowing me to sit and talk rubbish and take photos with them
I came across a photoshop a while back of a heavily tattooed baby and liked the idea (much cheaper than the real thing) so got thinking what tatts would suit….. and then some Tupac played… I got some studio lights a while back but they are not used in this, just the natural light in the room
I have been reading recently where there is something of a trend in wedding photography to get back away from the reportage style that has become so ubiquitous in wedding photography recently, where people are wanting to get back to the traditional heavily posed and group shots that was the hallmark of wedding photography. Its not hard to see why really, reportage when done well, is superb and highly effective, but it is exactly the sort of thing that looks easy and really isn’t – reportage done badly? you will get better snaps from disposable cameras on your guests tables.
At my own wedding, our photographer gave his cameras to the children at the end of the night and the result was superb – people really let their guard down when children are pointing a camera at them, and even better goof for the camera – a world away from reportage but not quite traditional either.
I have just got some studio lights and am experimenting with them for family portraits – at the minute sticking to quite formulaic ways of doing it, nothing terribly adventurous but seeing what works. I know there was a huge trend for High-Key photography, but that is perhaps passing – so i’m wondering, what are the current trends in family photography?
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Christoph Bangert
War Photography holds a particular fascination for me, perhaps it is as James Nachtwey says, a photograph which shows the horror of war is by its very nature and anti war statement – it is necessary. I re-watched the Nachtwey TED prize speech on the bus on saturday on the way to a workshop with Christoph Bangert, a photojournalist who, despite only being a working photographer for 5 years and being only 30 years old, has worked and documented war and conflict in many war zones across the world.
The cycle of violence got nicked before christmas, so i now walk to work, through Southern Cemetry…. without meaning to sound all goth, its kinda beautiful
Whitby, for an FC United away game, but due to the distance, its appropriated as a ‘European Away’ – hostels are booked, excuses are given and debauched weekends of wandering around abbeys and eating ice cream in sub-zero temperatures are had.
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