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Back on the artisan/craft fair circuit starting in April so just building up stock as the days flutter by. Got some new big Manchester multi mount images which I'll start putting on here today, they really are mega images and even I've impressed myself, not often I can say that....there will be lots of mounts and stuff as well so plenty to look at, tell you dates and times when things get closer the keen eyed of you will have noticed that my Photodeck image library has gone off air...yep I give things 12 months and if nothing happens they get the chop, I'll be giving these framed and mounted images a bit longer as this ties in with some life changing plans I'm putting in place..I know enigmatic but nothing finalised except the determination to do something different before I get too old and my get up and go gets up and naffs off... oh and going to be a Grandad again...blimey, they are coming thick and fast now....  Filling the Tank
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Yep, been working hard to develop a range of framed images that are now looking good, well I think so and my fiercest critic but finest champion , Mrs Max that'll be, quite likes them too. Start retailing at the beginning of April in Manchester, exciting times I can tell you, it's like stepping back 30 years to when I had my first stall at Styal Mill, where basically, I had no idea about anything but bags of enthusiasm...other way round now... Still I've so many images I can make up so many different styles of taste, just got to work out how to display them best...head scratchy time.... So not taking many shots at the moment but delving into my badly organised archives and pulling out stuff from days gone by...well 4 years ago and then there's all the stuff from 2007 to 2009 that had far too much Photoshop on it....ah well we all learn and grow... and the talking at Photographic clubs season starts again soon, blimey I may even put some courses back up on the website... 
The banks of the Tyne.
motion blur...smart objects..texture...blend modes......get stuck in and have a play... ..I'm going through a cyclical process of man flu, colds and chesticle infections that has medical science on the back foot...still here if not in some drug addled state...still managing to sit up and put coherent sentences together like " Yes some malt whisky in the lemsip would be nice..." Colds...what are they good for???? All stems from my trip to Spain and Gibraltar...foreign germs coming over here... So, I'm trying to get this place sorted and more retail based, almost there. We'll be saying tata to my Photodeck site as I put more stuff up on my other Image library site, you can have a browse through all the old stuff on there and buy downloads either as RM or RF licensed... So as I now have the Adobe creative cloud at my fingertips I thought I'd go through all the very old stuff that proved a challenge in CS3 and CS4...so they may not have seen the light of day but technically I'll consider them as new images and I'll be having a play with layering stuff again, yes I know not everyone's cup of tea but if I don't mash about and do it...who else will???? Here's one from the Black Mountains...  Looking over to Ben Nevis. Scottish Highlands. Morning all, another week and i need to send out a bucket load of marketing emails, or maybe eat toast and drink coffee instead....hmmm anyway well into the latest batch of CS6 youtube tutorials and here is another new one. I won't say this will change your life but it might give you an idea of how powerful CS6 is when it comes to working on your images. I'll be getting stuck into Portrait work this week so I'll keep you posted and maybe get the courses back out there seeing as we are just about getting to the back end of the really grim weather.
Okay really liking CS6 now that I've gone into preferences and sorted how it runs on this clunky old computer of mine so much so that I've gone and posted 2 new CS6 videos on the Youtube tube thing There will be more to follow, ones that are a bit left of centre, during the next few weeks, as ever some nasal northern bloke will be trying his hardest not to say 'There you go then...' hmmmph...leitmotif.. Oh make sure you have them on 720 HD for that full on CS6 experience....
to 1/8" of sleet on the roads and chaos ensues... but it does open up all manner of photographic opportunities, shame I've got a stonking man cold and have the basso profundo of Barry White still, I need to hang about for some new bearings for one of my cutters..I'm hoping today is the day things turn up.... This week , as long as the Barry White man cold clears up, will be the start of some 'on the road' marketing. Keen eyed ones amongst you may have noticed prints and stuff appearing on here, good on you if you have, here's a link if you havn't., Lots of Stockport and Manchester local scenes to get up online and then I'll be wading in to all the disparate projects that are spread across various hard drives and pulling them all together on here. Coast and by the sea will be first up and as I whiled away a few hours yesterday on Adobe TV checking out what's only available on the CS6 'Creative Cloud'...well I'll be putting them to good use. There will be a big wodge of CS6 based Black and White tutorials on the way over then next few weeks as well. Right back to it then.... 
Wide angle panorama in Seville.
Well here we go then, on the cusp of ditching buying software and flopping some cash over to Adobe to join in their Creative cloud. Why...well it does make a bit of financial sense and gives access to all of Adobes software...yes all of it. Any student nipping off to do Photography, Film or design at college should have this before they set off...I couldn't survive without having Adobe on hand to tickle things up and you are always up to date..no patching and it seems CS6 has a raft of doohickies only available to Cloud members... I will have to root them out and post some online toots. Been a bit lax on that front as I knock the retail stuff into shape but getting there. Still getting between 150-200 views a day over on Youtube so some folk appear to be learning something.
I'll be putting the outdoor tutorial stuff back on line at the end of this month and all the dates for this years class based stuff, just really need to get the prints sorted and I think it's going to take the next 3 weeks to achieve that. This place will become the home for everything from now on. So that'll be new stuff, prints , training, give away's and info..I did that crazy thing and went to 123 Reg to see what names are up for grabs with a view to more web sites...I must have been slipped a mickey and I banged my head on the keyboard and came back to my senses..so here is home..for now and forever...... |
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