Samantha and Alec were students of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and celebrated their wedding in the beautiful old part of the college.
Samantha & Alec's Wedding
Colour & Form – St. John's
Having made my first Cambridge-based Colour & Form montage last week, it spurred me on to make another one, of my alma mater, St. John’s College.
If you’re a Johnian, try to guess which part of college each photograph is of.
Cambridge Photowalk
I took part in Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk, which saw 7,500 photographers in 230 locations around the world go out together and take photos of their home cities. As I’ve lived in Cambridge for a long time, and photographed many of the buildings and scenes, I decided to start on a project that has been long overdue – creating a “Colour & Form” montage of my home town. I’ve already created several of these from other places I’ve visited, notably France, Costa Rica, Barcelona, South Africa and Italy. I managed to put together this rather nice one from a 2 hour walk through town. I now have plenty of ideas for creating a dozen more “Colour & Form” montages for Cambridge, so I’d better get cracking!
Here are few of my other favourite photos from the walk:
Wooden hatch in Senate House Passage
Railings on Senate House
Old wooden door in Senate House Passage
Detail above the Gate of Honour, Caius College
Gate to Senate House
Water Lily in Clare Gardens
Bicycle in archway, Clare College
Old wooden doorway, Old Schools
Sweden
I travelled to Sweden again this year for more Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll training with other members of the Cambridge University Rock’n’Roll Team. This team, we spent a day in Stockholm at the beginning, and a day in Vasteras at the end. Unusually for me, I didn’t take that many scenic/touristic photos, perhaps because I was with a group of friends. Or possibly because it was quite grey and I wasn’t overly impressed until we wandered around the park on Djurgarden and the sun came out…
Statue by Stockholm City Hall
Stockholm, Old Town
Panorama of Stockholm
View from Djurgarden
Wooden window shutters in Vasteras old town
Modelling portfolio for Megan
Megan, whom I’ve photographed before, had a casting with a modelling agency, so wanted some new and full-length photos for her portfolio.
London Red Bull Air Race
A friend hosted a party the night before the Red Bull Air Race, and his apartment in London’s Docklands had a fantastic view over the race course the next morning. You wouldn’t have seen images of aeroplanes flying low and fast over central London a few years ago…
O2 Millennium Dome and Canary Wharf at Sunset
Views of the O2 Millennium Dome and Canary Wharf, from an apartment balcony in London’s Docklands.
Taking my photos to the next level
I’ve seen some really impressive design work applied to fashion photos, so was inspired to have a go with some of my own photos. For some reason, I chose to undertake my first “respray” at 1am, and finished (or called it a night) at dawn. I can see elements in the image which are great, and some things which I should improve on next time, but it’s not bad for my first attempt (hopefully many more to come).
I also put together a montage of my favourite shots from the recent photoshoots with Erica.
Photoshoot with Erica (Studio #2)
After the success of the recent studio photoshoot with Erica, we arranged another shoot a few days later to carry on from where we’d left off. She got back into the modelling zone straight away, and her photos kept getting better and better.
Erica is fast-becoming one of my favourite muses. Funnily enough she’s at the same college as most of my other muses, Rebecca, Hayley, Megan and Emily. There must be something about Homerton that attracts models – that’ll be the drama degree!
View more photos from this shoot with Erica at CantabPhotos.com
Acting Headshot for Julia
Julia recently graduated from Cambridge, and needed a headshot photo at very short notice. After some deliberation about her favourite shot, and a little post-processing, here’s the one she chose.
