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Photo Challenge Week 6 Artistic: Candy
February 08, 2017 - This week payed homage to last years artistic: Candy theme, but this year no actual candy was allowed in the picture. So...
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Photo Challenge Week 3 Artistic: Land
January 18, 2017 - When the snow turned out to be less plentiful than promised, and the rain prevented me from exploring any new, interesti...
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Photo Challenge 2017 Week 2 Technical: SOOC
January 10, 2017 - Do you know what 'SOOC' means? I didn't. And after a quick Googling found that it was an abbreviation for 'Straight Out...
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Photo Challenge 2017 Week 1 Story: Rule of Thirds
January 04, 2017 - At first I was a little reluctant to start the Dogwood Advanced challenge for 2017, after towards the end of last year w...
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2016 Photo Challenge Wrap Up
December 31, 2016 - At the beginning of 2016 I decided it might be a good idea to look for a photography forum to join or a challenge to be...
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Photo Challenge Week 52 Portrait: Self Portrait
December 28, 2016 - Ending the 2016 Challenge as it was begun, with a selfie (which I was far more prepared for this month than I was back i...
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Week 51 Artistic: Art
December 21, 2016 - When I was a kid I loved to draw. I used to think I wasn’t very good at it, because my likenesses never looked the way t...
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Photo Challenge Week 50 Landscape: Symmetrical
December 14, 2016 - I don't know what it is about landscape week that makes me think it's going to be easy, when most of the time it ends up...
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Photo Challenge Week 49 Portrait: Dancing
December 07, 2016 - This week's challenge theme was dancing, and just so happened to fall within the week that I was working with BMTC and h...
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Photo Challenge Week 48 Artistic: Bokeh
November 30, 2016 - Christmas and bokeh go hand in hand.
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Photo Challenge Week 47 Landscape: Abandoned
November 23, 2016 - Week 47 Landscape: Abandoned
For this week's landscape, I headed to Rindleford, to the woods behind the house where m...
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Photo Challenge Week 46 Portrait: Backlit
November 16, 2016 - Another portrait week starring Rory? Well, yes.
I knew I wanted natural light for this week, and since the best light...
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Photo Challenge week 45 Artistic: Nostalgia
November 09, 2016 - For me, nostalgia means tradition, honouring old ones and creating new ones with my own little family. And nothing takes...
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Photo Challenge Week 44 Landscape: A Tree
November 02, 2016 - A nice on for this week, and not really a theme that required much planning besides looking for an interesting subject s...
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Photo Challenge Week 43 Portrait: Elderly
October 26, 2016 - My Grandad Bob is brilliant, you could ask anyone and they'd tell you the same. He's one of the most encouraging, cheerf...
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Photo Challenge Week 42 Artistic: Minimalist
October 18, 2016 - This week I'm incredibly busy working on a huge collectionof wedding photography, but didn't want to skip the photo chal...
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Photo Challenge Week 41 Landscape: Get High
October 11, 2016 - In the evening of Rory's birthday party, we released some lanterns into the night sky and naturally I took a bunch of pi...
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Photo Challenge Week 40 Portrait: Sitting in a Chair
October 05, 2016 - I took a few shots for this week, but none of them turned out to be particularly interesting or exciting, but at the wee...
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Photo Challenge Week 39 Artistic: Handmade
September 27, 2016 - With a family of creatives our house is a treasure trove of handmade things, but Rorys Superhero costume still has to be...
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Photo Challenge Week 38 Landscape: Get Low
September 20, 2016 - Landscape: Get Low
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Photo Challenge Week 37 Portrait: Fashion
September 13, 2016 - Thank goodness for Matt, who was kind enough to voulenteer his face (and hoodie) for this week's 'fashion' portrait chal...
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Photo Challenge Week 36 Artistic: Food
September 07, 2016 - This week's photo challenge theme is food, and since it's in the 'artistic' category I decided to start out by shooting...
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Photo Challenge Week 35 Landscape: Nature Up Close
August 30, 2016 - A nice and simple one this week. Nature photography is always a lot of fun, even if you shoot the same subject repeatedl...
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Photo Challenge week 34 Portrait: Child
August 23, 2016 - My daughter has been centre stage for so many of the portraits in this challenge, but what can I say? She's cute!...
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Photo Challenge Week 33 Artistic: Collaboration
August 16, 2016 - For 'Collaboration' I roped in my brother in law to help me out with some light painting with his light saber. Light pai...
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Photo Challenge Week 32 Landscape: Colourful
August 09, 2016 - I got really lucky this week after spotting this location in some pictures on facebook and finding out that there was a...
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Photo Challenge Week 31 Portrait: Street Candid
August 02, 2016 - Even though I always prefer to shoot candidly over formally, taking pictures of people when they're unaware of me, espec...
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Photo Challenge Week 30 Artistic: Patterns
July 26, 2016 - This week's challenge theme was patterns, and as seems to always be the case with the artistic themes, I assumed it woul...
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Photo Challenge Week 29 Landscape: Waterscape
July 19, 2016 - I think one of the best things about living in the centre of Bridgnorth is that I never have to venture far to find some...
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Photo Challenge Week 28 Portrait: Family
July 12, 2016 - The most frustrating part of being a photographer is having the means to capture the important moments in your life, but...
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Photo Challenge Week 27 Artistic: Blue
July 05, 2016 - I always find that the most themes most open to interpretation are the most difficult to work with because I spend so mu...
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Photo Challenge Week 26 Landscape: Simplify
June 28, 2016 - Simplified Landscape
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Photo Challenge Week 25 Portrait: Silhouette
June 21, 2016 - Week 25 Portrait: Silhouette
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Photo Challenge week 24: Artistic 'Sparkle'
June 14, 2016 - It's no secret that I have a bit of a thing for photographing dew drops and rain drops. They're easy to find, easy to sh...
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Photo Challenge Landscape Week 23: Weather
June 07, 2016 - All week I've been waiting for some rain or fog or anything to take an interesting landscape of the weather, but for onc...
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Photo Challenge Week 22 Portrait: Hands
May 31, 2016 - The photo challenge theme of 'hands' just so happened to coincide with a weekend where Chris was working at home, letter...
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Photo Challenge Week 21 Artistic: Fantasy
May 24, 2016 - My daughter's first imaginary friend was a pixie/ type creature called the 'Spiderwitch' who was born of a mispronunciat...
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Photo Challenge Week 20 Landscape: Nightowl
May 17, 2016 - As we spent the weekend away I hoped to take some shots for the 'nightowl' landscape while there. These would have been...
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Photo Challenge Week 19 Portrait: Messy Portrait
May 10, 2016 - The theme for this week's photo challenge is to take a messy portrait, so I recruited my sweet kitten Gatsby to be the s...
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Photo challenge week 18 Artistic: Texture
May 03, 2016 - There were so many options for the subject 'texture' that I almost didn't know where to start! So I started where my cam...
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Photo Challenge Week 17 Landscape: Urban Landscape
April 26, 2016 - Pictures taken in Hightown Brigdnorth. I love the architecture of this town and how it has remained largely unchanged fo...
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Photo Challenge week 16 Portrait: Movement
April 19, 2016 - For the week's photo theme of movement I decided to use our little adventure to Wonderland to my advantage and grab some...
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Photo Challenge week 15 Artistic: Metal
April 12, 2016 - This week the theme was metal, and found me balancing a torch on my head to be able to catch the reflection of the coin...
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Photo Challenge week 14 Landscape: Zoomed In
April 05, 2016 - Bridgnorth Castle Gardens
Week 14 of the 52 week photo challenge was to shoot a 'zoomed-in' landscape and while I s...
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Photography Challenge week 13 Portrait: High Key
March 29, 2016 - I thought this week would be an easy one, but getting a high key portrait that overexposes enough of the shot without bl...
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Photo challenge week 12 Artistic: Transportation
March 22, 2016 - Severn Valley Railway Bridgnorth
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Photo Challenge Week 11: Landscape reflection
March 14, 2016 - The last week or so Rory and I have been housebound trying to shift this hideous cold we both have in time for a wedding...
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Photo Challenge week 8 Landscape : Panorama
February 23, 2016 - This Week was themed 'Panorama', which was tricky since I'd misplaced the attachment for my tripod when I did my first t...
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Photo Challenge Week 7 Portrait: Faceless
February 17, 2016 - I really need to replace my tripod.
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Photo Challenge Week 6 Artistic: Candy
February 09, 2016 - Photo challenge week 6: Candy
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Photo Challenge Week 5 Landscape: Black and White
February 02, 2016 - This week's photo challenge theme was a black and white landscape and while landscape photography isn't exactly my niche...
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Photo Challenge Week 4 Portrait: Headshot
January 26, 2016 - Not having a permanent studio set up can be incredibly frustrating sometimes, especially when I'm feeling inspired, but...
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Photo Challenge Week 3 Artistic: Red
January 19, 2016 - For me, photography is as much about storytelling as any piece of writing and I've always had a fire burning in me that...
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Photo Challenge Week 2 Landscape: Traditional
January 13, 2016 - The only resolution I made for 2016 was to find and join a photography challenge to give me some inspiration to just go...
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Photo Challenge Week 1: Self Portrait
January 06, 2016 - I found out about this photo challenge on the last day of the first week and since I didn't want to start off late, I sn...
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