RHS Wisley Christmas Contemporary Craft Fair 27th November to 1st December

We are exhibiting at the Craft in Focus Christmas Contemporary Craft show at RHS Wisley. Jan is doing it on her own to save my bad back which has taken a bit of a beating over the last few weeks. Unfortunately, Jan also hurt her back last week so she has to be careful too.

The show opens at 9am every day and closes at 6pm, except Thursday is 8pm and Sunday is 5pm. Entry is free to RHS members and £9 to everyone else but this includes entry to the gardens as well.

The photos of our stand were taken by Jan on her BlackBerry phone. As you can see it's quite a bit smaller than our last show, Ideal Home Christmas show at Earls Court, in fact it's less than half the size of our stand there! We have still packed a lot in and have several hundred darkroom prints for sale, the last few posters and all 4 books are on offer, with a very special price if you buy all 4.

For more information follow the link: www.craftinfocus.com

Snowy Peak District

I'm in Buxton Pavilion Gardens running Gallery in the Gardens all day. After 6 days at the Ideal Home show in Earls Court in London and 5 at the NEC immediately before that it was good to get out walking the hills for a change.

What a day we have here in the Peaks! Wall to wall sunshine with a dusting of snow on the tops. Lots of ice though so a bit slippery. It's a 6 mile walk over the hills to get here but I grabbed a few shots on my Samsung S3 phone and edited them to black and white using the editor in Google+ photos on my Nexus 10.

I had intended to take more photos of London during and after the show but decided it was too much for my bad back so we've decided to go down after Christmas, weather permitting. Shame though as we had 4 good days which would have been great for photos. We did manage to walk in and out to the show for the first 4 days, 3 miles each way but the only greenery we found was walking through Brompton Cemetery, a large green space just south of Earls Court. No peaks though!

Ideal Home Christmas Show Photos

It was a busy and full day at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court today. We were open for 11 hours, closing at 9pm.

I wandered around taking a few photos as the crowds thinned out late on.

The indoor ice rink was a novelty. We've done shows with breweries before but not with an ice rink (Buxton shows excluded of course!).

Still 3 days to go. Show closes on Sunday late afternoon. We are getting some exercise though as the walk from the Travelodge in Battersea to Earls Court is a bit under 3 miles/50 minutes walk each way. It was too late for anything except a Chinese takeaway today, and a bottle of Hobgoblin!

Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court Stand Photos

Our stand at the Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court in London is now finished. We are on the ground floor stand 1F118.

For more information click here. 

www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk

Here are the stand photos to show the display and space.

Ideal Home Christmas Show at Earls Court

Set up and ready for the Ideal Home Christmas Show www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk at Earls Court. Our stand is 1F118 on the ground floor. Lots of show offers. Lots of new pictures. Large stand.

They hadn't laid the aisle carpets when we left so I'll take photos tomorrow morning and do another post. Walls and carpet that they provided are white. Not expecting carpet to stay white though! Looks great with our black and white stand.

The opening times are 10am to 6pm Wednesday to Sunday with late night opening Thursday until 9pm. Ticket info on the website, click the link above. It's a big one, over 650 exhibitors on 2 floors.

ICHF Crafts for Christmas, Birmingham NEC

It's the first day of the ICHF Crafts for Christmas Show at the Birmingham NEC today. It runs until Sunday 9am to 5.30pm, 5pm Sunday.

We have a few hundred darkroom prints here at Good prices. All 4 of my books are on sale. The 2014 course dates are out now, and on the website, so we can talk about these too.

More details here: www.ichfevents.co.uk

Wellington College Crowthorne Craft and Contemporary Design Show

While I am lecturing at PhotoLive 2013 Jan is running our stand at the Craft in Focus show at Wellington College Crowthorne,  near Bracknell.

The last day is tomorrow, Sunday 27th October. The picture is one Jan took of the stand. Lots of pictures, lots of offers.

For more information click here:
www.craftinfocus.com/crowthorne_october_13.html

PhotoLive 2013

All set up ready for the starting pistol of PhotoLive 2013 www.photo-live.com!

Expecting lots of people today for the dozens of lectures, hopefully some will come to mine!

My lectures today are.
The Art of Monochrome City Scenes, 10 to 10.45 am, room 7

The Art of Monochrome Landscapes, 3 to 3.45 pm, room 1

My stand is 3a. Here's a picture of it. Mostly books and a few pictures.
All books at much reduced prices.

PhotoLive 2013 This Weekend

The new PhotoLive 2013 event in London is fast approaching. It is being run by Future Publishing whose titles include Photography Week, Digital Camera, PhotoPlus, NPhoto and Practical Photoshop.

I am one of the 30-odd lecturers for the 2 day event, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October.

My lectures are 10 - 10.45am, 'The Art of Monochrome City Scenes', and 3 - 3.45pm 'The Art of Monochrome Landscapes', same lectures at the same time on both days. There are 10 to 13 lectures going on at the same time throughout the day so lots to choose from.

Use discount code SC_15 for a 15% discount on the day and weekend ticket prices. You can also buy tickets for individual lectures at £20 each.

My lectures are brand new. I'm still trying to learn my words, never easy as I refuse to use a script and generally just make it up using the prints to prompt me. Yes, even in this digital age I am still doing new print lectures from my film negatives! These have 30 prints in each. Apart from 1 poster in the city lecture all of the prints are silver gelatin darkroom prints. A lot of these are new fibre based prints made by me over the last few weeks.

The landscapes lecture is mostly illustrated with mountain photos, the city lecture mostly includes photographs from my new City Light book.

I also have stand 3A in the PhotoLive retail area. You can visit this without paying any fee at all. My landscapes books, Lake Light, Peak Light and High Light are all £5 instead of £15. City Light is £10 instead of £15. Free autograph and bag with every purchase!

I will also have details of the courses for next year, if you want to have a chat about these or private tuition.

The venue is the Novotel London West in Hammersmith.

Still time to book using the SC_15 15%-off discount code!

Hope to see you there.

New Images of Berlin

In July we visited Berlin for a few days, all planned around taking photographs of the city. The films have been processed a while and here is a taster of them. More on my web site.

Brandenburg Gate at Night

Bode Museum at Dusk

St Nikolai Church and Cafe Sign

Berlin Wall on Bernauerstrasse

Holocaust Memorial and Tree

 Reichstag Building at Night

Berlin Sign and Lamp

Bundestag Film 'To the German People'