Busy Times
18th July 2011
Wow!! Has it really been this long since my last blog entry? Many apologies to everyone but the last couple of months have been ridiculously busy on the commercial side of the business.
We have just completed our 3rd show of the year and I couldn't be happier. Print sales have been really good, more than I could have hoped for, and a few workshops have also been booked. However there is always a downside and that is my time spent out on site has been reduced dramatically, as life at the moment seems all about printing/processing and framing pictures. But I won't complain as it’s nice to have the business now truly standing on its own two feet.
Well the shows themselves have been great fun so far, we've met plenty of new clients and it’s always nice to get feedback on your work from a wide selection of people, whether its photographers or just people who are interested in the images we produce. We must be doing something right as all the feedback so far has been good.
For me one of the most exciting stages in photography is the final print when all the effort comes together and you have a beautiful print in your hands. I won't lie, it’s been a very frustrating time with many long days/hours spent trying to produce prints I am happy with. I won't even go into the costs involved. I think the main problem for me is that I am far too demanding and critical of my own work and sometimes I look for the impossible. The upside of this obsession is that we are now producing prints I could only have dreamt about a year ago, the quality is just amazing. A big thank you to Epson for all their help along the way, it’s been greatly appreciated.
My last major trip was back in May when we were down in Dartmoor for a couple of weeks, and a great time was had by all. This year I saw more Dippers and Cuckoos than I have ever done before which was great!! The weather was also very kind to us during our stay so all in all a very good trip with many pre-visualised images being obtained. I hope over the next few weeks to get all the new images processed and up on the site.
The above images are a couple of my favourites from the trip, just very simple images of the Dartmoor ponies that live on the moors. Both were taken at the end of the day when the light was very poor and flat, and taken hand held at high ISO, but I feel the conversion to black and white suits the images and seems to really bring them alive.
