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I decided it was finally time to get a new blog post up here - I can't believe it was a month ago since I last posted. So what's been distracting me?
 
Well... most of it has been general 'business' admin, planning and marketing.
 
However, I also managed to get an Easter break away camping in the New Forest. Obviously it was destined to be partly a Busman's holiday for me, dragging my camera and several lenses round with me, capturing the holiday in pictures and keeping an eye out for anything that would make good additions to my Art Prints store.

One morning, I awoke to find the campsite shrouded in mist so had a coffee and headed out to see what I could find for a shot. I was lucky to find horses grazing in early morning sun and mist. I spent about 20 minutes shooting before the mist lifted and the atmosphere disappeared. I'm very pleased with the shots and they are a definite incentive to travel to more locations for early morning shoots.

Yesterday, after some serious work in the garden (building a rockery and digging up most of the lawn to create a large border), we were invited down to Brighton to photograph some fire Poi. I've seen lots of Poi photos before and they often tend to be long exposures to capture the patterns that it creates. I wanted to do something a little different and decided to steer away from the long exposures and capture it like the average person would see it by using shorter exposures. Personally, I think it worked really well and it was nice to capture the concentration of the Poi artist, rather than him becoming second fiddle to the fire patterns. Thanks to Danny and Richard for giving me the opportunity to shoot this. On a technical note, Danny said we went through 4 litres of paraffin! I would love to shoot fire Poi again!

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