Judichick's favourites

I was very happy to see one of my photos included in Judichick's (I don't know her real name unfortunately) favourites montage on flickr. Mine is number 7 as you work across! There are some really lovely images in this selection. I particularly like number 6 which is by Hector Pozuelo, such a gorgeous image. You can see the selection bigger and have a look at all the other yummy images here.

Thank you very much Judichick.

new obsession

I have had this for a while now, just never told anyone - I am fascinated by lamps and the way that they cast their light onto walls, particularly in the morning when the colours are really subtle.  I keep finding myself in different places and itching to take photos of the lamps!  Well, there will be many more pictures of lamps to come as I can't see this going away anytime soon but for now you can see the start of this obsession in the column to the right and above.

New Project

I have recently joined a group on flickr all about re-touching called "Points of View - Retouching Issues".  Everyone in the group is given the same photo and we all have to retouch it in our own way, however we like.  The photo above is my attempt and below is the original image (it is not my photograph it was supplied by a member of the group).  I think that this is a relatively new group so I hope that it survives in the big wide world of flickr because I think that it is a super idea!  It is really interesting to see how different people approach the same image and come up with completely different outcomes.  

ps. its my birthday today, yay!!

EXHIBITION!!!

Very exciting news, my 'Fringes' project is going to be exhibited at Art London (www.artlondon.net) on the 2nd - 6th October 2008 (next weekend!!!) at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.  It is the first time my work has been exhibited so I am very excited/nervous all at the same time.  A gallery from Cambridge called Byard Art are exhibiting my work on their stand so if anyone is in London on any of those days take a look and let me know what you think.  

To see some more images from the collection you can visit my flickr set:

www.flickr.com/photos/cazhancox/sets/72157604550763179/

Not all the images that will be in the exhibition are in flickr set, so to see the whole collection you'll have to go to the show!

Love or hate 365 days?

I'm having a bit of a love hate relationship with my 365 days project.  If you have looked at my flickr page you will see that I havn't uploaded any images for a while, I have been taking them but I just havn't had time for the edit and upload of them!  I think that on one hand 365 is a good idea because it makes you think about photography everyday and it encourages you to shoot something everyday but I think about photography all the time anyway - the only problem now is that it is focused on one particular area and not thinking up fabulous new projects to do.  I feel a bit pressured to come up with something every day and am starting to get annoyed by it, especially when the photo hasn't come out exactly as I want and i feel I am uploading not my best stuff.  I am thinking about changing the project to one amazing well though out, planned and executed photo a week, so 52 weeks not 365 days!  I don't want to give it up completely and I don't want this project to beat me but I feel it is having a negative impact on my work as I just don't have enough time to come up with meaninful images.  Saying that though, some of the photos I have taken for this project I am really really happy with so maybe it is a good thing?  I'll see how it goes, watch this space, or rather watch my flickr page!  www.flickr.com/photos/cazhancox

On a happier note - Chatel photos this weekend - woohoo!!

Experimenting

I have been playing about with photoshop lately to try to come up with some different techniques.  Found a great photoshop action on Flickr (www.flickr.com/groups/michelleblack/), the top one has this action applied and the 2 underneath are my own creations,  can't decide which one I like the best.  The photo is part of my 365 project.

Portrait Shoot

Here are some shots from a recent photo shoot of John.  I played in photoshop and tried some out new techniques, what do you think?  There are more photos on my flickr (see link in the right hand column)

Also the 365 self portraits are on day 4 now and still going strong!  See them also on my flickr page.