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Raven Vandelle

A couple of weeks ago on a rainy and cold Tuesday night Val and I had the pleasure of visiting The Jam House in Birmingham for the Ben Drummond Acoustic Sessions.

The purpose of our visit was to see Raven Vandelle, local hero's striving for well deserved success, this is definitely one of the perks of being a photographer; having an excuse to go to midweek gigs and watching talent at close quarters.

Old romantic at heart.

My about me page on my website is entitled " Bohemian at heart " which ain't a bad description, but another word that springs to mind lately is romantic, I quite like the sound of that " old romantic at heart ", this came to mind this week after a chance hearing of R Kelly' s classic "Bump and Grind". Yes I can hear the note of disdain from here dear reader, there's nothing romantic about bumping and grinding I hear you cry, but the suggested intimacy in this song does lead my mind to more romantics notions .

Australian based wedding photographer Yervant points to old European films as sources of inspiration, romance being a key player in many European classics .On our quiet Sundays Val and I occasionally take a stroll through Birmingham and check out the galleries, it maybe art imitating life, but the work of artists like, Rob Hefferan and Fabian Perez I find inspiring, even though these images may not all be obviously romantic in there subject mater. For example Fabian Perez paints the prostitutes from his fathers brothel (and yes we do appear to be back where we started ) not a typically romantic idea, but from his, at the time young view point " beautiful women who could seduce a man “simply by lighting a cigarette” must have seem very romantic indeed.

Romance then it seems is in the eye of the beholder/receiver, but as a photographer what can be more romantic than kissing a form with light and capturing the image in camera .

( Is that too cheesy? I can never tell ).

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, ladies and gentleman...

The content of this blog is generally inspired by either what I've done in the preceding week or whats been on my mind the preceding week, with Christmas deadlines looming and this weeks work load being what it is, I've found myself offering you; dear reader, a small collection of images from a gig I attended a couple of months ago.The band are BonGiovi ( Bon Jovi Tribute ) I'm proud to say these guys are friends of mine and that there show is highly charged and thoroughly entertaining, as I'm sure anyone who has seen them would agree. The lighting in this small venue is pretty good, so even with a hi ISO setting the images are still pretty sharp. More images from this gig will be available for viewing in the music gallery on my main website shortly.

The train standing at platform one ...

It's amazing how this year has panned out, one minute I'm excited about the coming months, the next I'm in the thick of it enjoying the challenge and the thrill of the chase, then in a moment of charm after the storm I find myself again looking at all the possibilities open to me with the wide eyed expectation of a child waiting at a train station en route to the seaside ( that is when I was a child, before that invented motorcars ) and my current situation does feel akin to that.

I have acquired a love of train stations and airports over the years, although I've never been one for train spotting , sitting for hours in a cold station collecting numbers. And ok not one for anoraks either ( I'm more of a duffel coat man myself ).

I think it's the idea of the anticipation, stations generally being places where people collect to travel some place else looking forward to something new.

So here I am standing at my virtual station in anticipation of the next leg of my journey, but where to next ?

There's nothing like a good spring clean in the middle of winter.

I've spent some time this week reconstructing my web galleries and doing some spring cleaning on the site in general, there's nothing like being ahead of yourself is there ; when the spring comes I'm sure I'll find some more cleaning to do.
As I've been browsing image files I find it interesting how different weddings can be, not surprising I suppose in that we are all different as people. This individuality is, after all what makes us interesting in the first place, but fascinating none the less that given that most wedding have the same basic remit, that the resulting images can be so individual, this is also what makes these days so much fun to work...

Rememberance

Lest we forget