I've been wholly abysmal at updating my deviantART account over the past year and a half, but in that time a lot of things have happened...


• I virtually stopped my photography, mainly through apathy

• My band Mandala spent a year working on our seminal album Eventyr: including concert harp, string section, pedal-steel guitar, electronics, choirs... etc.

• MySpace (...need I say more)

• I got back into photography in a big way, and started to take photos of my friends playing the London gig scene whenever I could

• I signed up for a Flickr account as I wanted a bigger gallery and was frustrated with the hoops you have to jump through for each devART submission - hence my gig photography went there

• Mandala, after being together on and off since 1997, split permanently, throwing the past years work into limbo


The result of this past year's flux is that I'm now looking to take my photography a lot more seriously. I really want to branch out of doing solely gig photography (which I still really enjoy), and head into portraiture.

I'm looking to start doing studio setups, and playing with light in a much more controlled way. Also, being a graphic designer, I'm a dab-hand in the ol' p'shop, so I'm going to start to introduce post-processing more into shoots, ideally at a conceptual stage - aiming for photorealistic end results, not photoshop-overlay-mess.

So in summary - I've a few specific projects with models lined up, and the aim is definitely to regain a focus on the artistic and expressive sides of photography, and of course, to have some fun in the process...

Now I just need to produce something worthwhile!


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