Merry Christmas/Happy Holiday

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing I hope you have a fantastic and peaceful holidays.  See you in the New Year!

Taking to the Stage

This week has been a little different.

I was invited to take photographs at Pendle Council's Mayor's Bit of a Do event at the Colne Municpal Theartre.

The event is a Christmas lunch and cabaret entertainment for the senior citizens of Pendle.  I have to admit it is a great event.

Although I had worked on stage productions before I had never had the opportunity to have a go at stage photography.  So I jumped at the chance to try something new and different.

Although, I wouldn't want to do this on a daily basis I quite enjoyed it but I did learn a couple of things; it helps to know the performers routine.  If you know the song or the jokes/script then you can anticpate the soulful moment or the delivery of the punchline etc; When you think its time to press wait a second a better shot will come around; Get to know the theatre and the best advantage points; and finally, make friends with the lighting engineer.  He's the one that is going to light your subject.  Get some info from him/her!

There are a few of Dom Woodward (comedian), Andrea-Louise and Lee Nelson on my flickr stream and I will be posting some more in the very near future.

Catching up!

Red

It's been a busy old time!

Remnants is now back in its box for the final time this year.  As of yet I haven't taken any bookings for it next year which has given me a little time to concentrate on finishing off The River.  I'll post more about The River in the very near future.

Tomorrow night is President's Evening at Blackburn and District Camera Club and as a result, I will be providing the entertainment which will include the first viewing of The River.  It will be interesting to see what the feedback is.

If you visit my flickr page you will see some of The River images are being uploaded.  I'm not quite sure if I'll upload them all yet or not but I have made a start.

I have also uploaded some of the photographs I did for the Marsden Park Forest School earlier this year.  This was quite a nice little commission.  It involved having free reign to take any pictures I wanted of kids taking part in activities in Marsden's Woodland.  I think there is scope to develop this in to a future project but haven't quite decided on it yet.

Anyway,  till next time.