Photography workshop, Snowdonia

I now have some dates for new photography workshops later on this year. My last workshop was very successful and yielded some great images from a beautiful part of the world. Please visit my website for more images and information regarding the photo workshops.

www.timgartsidephotography.com

In this beautiful, quiet shot you can see the weather was not so hot, yet we still managed to create a beautiful picture. The photographer's art is about seeing the potential in all weathers and seasons.

Spring bluebells

Here are some of my bluebell shots. I tried some more experimental abstract studies and I am quite pleased with the results. They look more like paintings than photographs. I used a longish exposure of about 1/4 sec and panned the camera down during the exposure, following the dominant vertical tree lines. I tried shots at different shutter speeds and also different panning speeds. The slower ones seemed to yield nicer results but it's all good fun experimenting.

Havana, Cuba and spring flowers

I have been busy doing more Cuba shots. Have added more new pics to view on my website - www.timgartsidephotography.com if you would like to see them or why not try my new Flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/garty/.

Going off to find some bluebells over the next week or so. Have been messing about with Painter x on some spring shots. It is a very interesting program allowing some amazing artistic effects although you do have to work hard at it to get the best results.

Boats at Hastings

Just finished teaching an interesting workshop down in Hastings with James where we photographed the boats pulled up on the shore. Took some shots at sunset but the best were the night shots which we painted with flash during 3 minute exposures using the 'Bulb' setting. Got some really amazing shots which were much nicer than I thought they were going to be. It goes to show if you work hard any location has the possibility of yielding good photographs. The dead fish were an 'interesting' prop!

Snowdonia, Wales and Photography Workshop

It's Friday the 13th-spooky!
Well, the day has been quiet so far but still time for an axe murderer! Just been to Snowdonia to do a workshop with Linzi and her clan. Great time, great company and great place. Some beautiful landscape in Snowdonia and we had an amazing experience where we got lost in a forest while photographing a beautiful sunset on Anglesey but luckily had a full moon and a grizzly bear to ask for directions. Good job it wasn't the 13th! Here are a few shots.

More Cuba photos

Been very busy retouching my Cuban photo's and still loads more to do! Post production is damned time consuming. Had a bit more hassle with my computer. If you transfer data from one Apple to another it can mess up serial numbers. I lost my Aperture serial number but because I had proof of purchase they gave me a new one. If you also have a similar problem find out more at:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1861?viewlocale=en_US

Sold a photo of Tower Bridge to be used as a jigsaw puzzle which is a first.

Viva Cuba!

Just got back from 7 days in Cuba-thanks Steve and Fan! It was great to be with you. Hope it's not too cold in Canada Fan!! A special hello to Shannon too! Havana is great, a photographers heaven. There are simply photo's on every street corner. The old architecture, the vibrant people, the 50's American Classic cars, sunshine and narrow streets all add up to great photo opportunities. It was remarkably safe, yes a few people wanting money but they never got heavy when none was forthcoming and always had a smile on their faces. The main problem was the car exhaust pollution (old Russian engines) which was quite nasty and a bit annoying but not enough to put me off going again, hopefully real soon.
Definitely recommended to go. It is changing and 'beautiful' decaying streets are being renovated (for the better in my opinion) but don't worry it will take many many years to finish. Now just got 60Gb worth of cards to wade through!