Specialising in Landscape and travel photography, we aim to produce distinctive and unusual images of the world around us. Run by Stephen and Jane Taubman, we use the latest techniques in Digital Photography and image manipulation to achieve our aims. To view some of our work please visit the Galleries. For more information about us and our services simply click on the links to the right.
One of a series of photographs of some Sweet Peas, has made it to Photograph of the Day at Photography Cafe.
Big Al, the site reviewer, does not like floral images much, but managed
Jane’s POTD is almost hi-key (only the stalk falls below 128 brightness) and that semi-bleaching of the petals gives a delicate look to the flower.
On the 8th of August, I will be running a one day workshop called “From Snapshots to Photographs” at the Old Mill House in Bridport, this will be designed for beginners who want to improve their in camera skills, concentrating on composition and understanding the basics of photography.
For more details please see the Flyer RJT Photography Day.
If you can’t make the course, but would be interested in receiving one to one tuition please contact me.
I really love sweet peas, they just seem so ephemeral.
This example comes from my Father’s collection and was part of a bunch presented to me at the weekend.
John Keats wrote of them
“Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:
With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white,
And taper fingers catching at all things,
To bind them all about with tiny rings.”
Using natural light from our north facing glass doors helped me to retain detail in the flowers and combined with a simple white background I felt this let the flower stand on it’s own merits.
After a long while and several “Crackers”, I finally got a photograph of the day with an image from our Black Sea holiday.
This was taken looking up inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, with the camera pointing directly up while sitting on the top of a pillar. The Mosque was very busy with tourists and a tripod would have been imposible even if I had taken one. Cruise ships and the latest baggage allowances make it difficult to take every thing I would like on holiday.
I was pleased and somewhat surprised to win the flowers challenge at Photography Cafe, as the competition was fierce and the quality of images high.
