Compton Verney.....

Last week I visited Compton Verney in Warwickshire with Rachel, my youngest daughter. We're both keen photographers so it was a great chance to take a few pictures each and see what kinds of subjects appealed to us. Interestingly she tended to notice the small details of colours and textures, and I tended to be looking for landscape shots of the buildings across the lake. Compton Verney's grounds are beautifully landscaped by Capability Brown and the house itself includes an art gallery and a very fine cafe. The parkland and woods were well maintained and the house remarkably free of outside clutter, so altogether a very pleasant visit indeed.

Exposure considered

The Exposure photography exhibition has been and gone. A learning experience for both of us, though I did sell two pictures and Teresa sold one, and we also sold a few postcard size prints for a few pence each. Interestingly both photographs I sold were from my collection of images from the historic covered market in Porto - maybe I should make these the focal point of any future exhibition. I've already planned to return to Porto in May next year and I think I'm going to have to spend a couple of hours at the market next time.

We did learn how to cut mounting board, looked at various different ways of hanging our photographs, and thought about how others had gone about it. Certainly the process has made us think through what we are trying to achieve, and why. We bought and restored second hand frames, sand on the whole this was successful. Here's one of the images from my short list(Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto) that didn't quite make it into the exhibition this time.

Things move on, and I've been rather preoccupied with sorting out a set of wedding photographs and sifting through photographs of Norwich's medieval churches for a competition entry. I will put something on the blog as soon as I can. I've also been providing photographs for some people at a church where I just wandered in......and ended up being co-opted as the official photographer for an award ceremony. Occupational risk of being seen with a decent camera, I suppose.

Exhibition opens in Norwich

This Sunday sees the opening of the Exposure photography exhibition in Norwich.

On Sunday morning Teresa and I will – with some trepidation – be at St Margaret’s Church on St.Bededict’s Street to set about handing our photographs. It’s been quite a learning experience so far, what with choosing the images to display, finding and preparing frames (we both decided to acquire secondhand frames through charity shops and car boot sales, and adapt them for our purposes) and working out how best to fix them to the walls. It will be interesting to see just how our very different photographic styles come across when put side by side (we are sharing exhibition space as Stripes Creative).