In our last zoom meeting of 2023 I invited Gerry Coe to talk to us about his iPhone photogrpahy. The event was a sell out with viewers from all over the UK, and from abroad. One lady, from California told me she had to log off at 2am her time, but can’t wait to watch the recording.
Gerryhas been a professional photographer for over 60 years, has numerous Fellowships with all of the UK societies and for the past decade has focussed on using an iPhone to both take and post edit his images. He spent over two hours talking to us about his craft, which started with his professional career and then moved onto iPhone photography before he demonstrated editing on his iPhone using his favourite apps
If you are interested in photobooks I have been creating a page on my website to sell some of the ones I have designed. Most of them are the result of days spent with groups of photographers, often from the workshops I run where we all photograph the same thing in our own way.
The books show how facinating it can be to see a group all photographing the same thing at the same time. The results are usually very different and can inspire us all to think differently.
Park Hill 2015 : The First Collaborative Project Park Hill’s Streets in the Sky officially opened in 1961. The complex of 1000 flats was designed to house 3000 people with all homes linked by a 12 foot wide covered walkway and was a bold example of post-war social housing in Sheffield. Designed by architects Ivor…
Yesterday, October 15th, 2024, I kicked off the first session of my Woodland Photostories series with a visit to the ancient woodlands at Willingham, just outside Market Rasen. The day was bright, perfect for capturing the beauty of this Lincolnshire gem. I was joined by eight fellow members of the Royal Photographic Society East Midlands…
after the walkinglooking back at autumn leavesflying free blurred Romans once walked over this land, which is by the St Peter and Paul Church in Caistor, Lincolnshire, England. I often walk through the church grounds with my camera, and on this occassion I was shooting with my Ricoh GRiii Diary in macro with the fixed…
Back in 2012, a significant shift occurred in my photography journey as I bid farewell to the substantial Nikon D3 system, embracing the much more compact Olympus EM5 along with its diminutive lenses—a notable departure from the bulkier Nikon counterparts. Over the years, the lenses on my Olympus setup have grown in size with wider…
Shoot-out : The New Fuji X-T50 meets my X100 VI Carol is a professional photographer who also works as an Imaging Solutions Product Specialist roaming the country showing the world Fuji products, and having inspired me to buy the lastest version of the Fuji X100 (the VI) a few weeks and 55000 shutter presses later…
On yesterday’s journal entry I wrote we were heading off to Mablethorpe for New Year’s day, and then we switched to Barton Upon Humber and the Water’s Edge Country Park, which I had been intending to visit later this week to start creating assets for the photobook workshops I am teaching this month and into…