Just a quick post to advise an important change to my website. I’ve added a new “viewing room” which will be used to preview and share clients images with family and friends. I have always had online galleries for this purpose but this new gallery area is much easier to get around and your images will look much better than before.

As has so often been requested, I have also added a shopping cart facility which will enable people to purchase directly from the site by credit card or if more convenient, email the order directly to me to pay by another method. I have resisted this in the past as the facilities available to me gave an experience not unlike buying books from Amazon as opposed to viewing images! This has been developed from scratch by my website developers and is designed to look great and to be much more about the images themselves.

I have added some weddings from this year to the new area but all weddings up to 4th January 2008 are only available on the old galleries. These can be accessed from the same viewing room page via a different link.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Today’s shot for my Launelight project:

Trawlers Rest

I followed the local hunt yesterday with the intention of getting a specific shot that I had in mind for a current project. I wanted to capture a shot like below but with horses instead of the hounds…

Never mind, I’m very pleased with the hounds shot and I will just have to wait for another day for the horses.

The world press photo yearbook is the photography version of the “Beano” annual as far as I’m concerned. For anyone with an interest in the power of photography and the story telling ability of a single image, it’s the bible to get every year.

Each year, thousands and thousands of press photographers put up their very best work to be judged by a consistently strong panel. The quality of the work is just staggering every time and last year was no exception. I normally have very little time for competitions but this one is probably the most respected in the world and with very good reason.  Oftentimes the images are taken in the middle of a war skirmish with no time to think and in the direct line of fire of some crazy fundamentalists!

Some of the images in this book might frighten the pants off your nephew if you leave them lying around but if you have an interest in photography, don’t miss it next time you are in a bookshop.

www.worldpressphoto.org