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Whitby - November 4th - 7th 2016 

I went up to Whitby with a couple of friends for the Gothic weekend, it is some thing i like to go and experience. The people and the costumes are amazing, there has been a lot of time and effort that goes into producing and making these costumes.

 Whitby is a place where "strange" or different people, of all ages, and sexes, can be themselves, without prejudice from others, they can dress in a way that could be seen as weird.

Whitby is also a beautiful little coastal fishing town, in the North East of Yorkshire.

It has been around for Hundreds of years, but has been made most popular for the ghostly  Benedictine Ruined Abby, which is peached high on a cliff. This was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's gothic tale of 'Dracula'. Abby and the legend of the dark forces.

It was disestablished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of Henry VIII. It is a Grade I Listed building in the care of English Heritage and its site museum is housed in Cholmley House.

The town has quaint little side streets ready to explore, full of cafes, bars, pubs, eating places, and jewellery shops, selling the infamous Whitby Jet.  

While i was there i went to visit the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe Gallery, as we had talked about the images in one of our lessons, and i wanted to see for myself the images on show.

I wanted to buy a calendar to fetch into University, but they had sold out, so i have had to order one online.

Image 1 - The Calendar cover from the Sutcliffe Gallery.


http://www.sutcliffe-gallery.co.uk/

This is the link to the gallery.

Images 1- Ref 26-50 & Image 2, Ref D9 are Titled  "Fisher people" and  are both exhibited in the gallery. you can buy these prints in different sizes.

Below are some of the images i took while i was visiting Whitby, how the times have changed over the years, how the clothes, and people have moved on in time and what Whitby, Im guess is now more famous for.
Not the fishing but the people.

 Image 1 - ISO 800 70mm F4.5 1/4000 sec - Spooky house, walking along the sea front. edited

 Image 2 - - ISO 800 70mm F4.5 1/4000 sec - the Pier in Whitby - edited

image 3  - ISO 800 70mm F4.5 1/4000 sec - Sea front Whitby

 Image 4 - ISO 800 165mm F4.5 1/4000 sec - "Brass Monkey" My chap, Martin freezing on the sea front at Whitby.

image 5 - ISO 1000 300mm F5.6 1/4000 sec - Couple walking on the beach at Whitby.

These images where taken walking on the sea front at Whitby, it was a very cold, windy and freezing day, the lighting was very dull.

The people of today in Whitby _ Goth weekend November 2016.


Image 1 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/4000 sec - Whitby Steampunk woman.




image 2  ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/4000 sec - Whitby Woman. her friend told me I had made her day, as her husband had left her for another woman, I told her she looked beautiful.

image 3 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/200 sec - carnival couple posing for photographs

Image 4 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/2500 sec - Submissive and her master

image 5 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/3200 sec - Dominatric and her Slave

Image 6- ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/200 sec - Young Steampunk boy.

 image 7 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/4000 sec - Steam punk couple.

 image 8 -ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/200 sec - Watching you watching me

Image 9 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/200 sec - Young Steampunk Girl in Black and white.

 Image 10 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/4000 sec - Game of thorns couple.

Image 11 - ISO 4000 40mm F2.8 1/4000 sec - Lovely woman.

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Manchester Art Gallery 

Vogue 100 Exhibition

Friday 28th October

Today I went to the art gallery in Manchester as part of my university studies. Vogue magazine are celebrating a 100 years of publishing fashion through their magazine, since it was published.

As part of our assignment brief, we was asked to look at the exhibitions photographs and the photographers behind the success of their careers.

             Images 1 & 2 -  Banners of the Vogue 100 hanging outside the Manchester Art Gallery

              Images 3 & 4 - A couple of photographs outside the main entrance to the Art gallery.

Fashion is something that does not really interest me, but I thought that I would be open minded and give it the benefit of the doubt, if I don't experience it, how can I judge or criticise it.

The photograph that I found most interesting from all the photos in the Gallery was By the photographer Irving Penn, of the then 22 year old gentleman designer, Yves Saint Laurent, he was appointed the head designer at Chryston Dior in 1957, following the death of the fashion houses founder. Irving Penn took this picture of Yves saint Laurent at this first collection in Paris.

Image - taken from Google images - Yves Saint Laurent, at the age of 22.  I like the image because of how the lighting has only lit up onside of his face , and the other is in the shadow, quite mysterious

Another picture that caught my eye was of the young David Bowie, taken by Lord Snowden in September 1978 (Unpublished version) on a Vintage bromide print. Bowie was coming out of this Thin White duke faze and was having a photo shoot for the release of his new album Berlin Trilogy of albums.

Image 2 - David Bowie - Taken by Lord Snowden.

The 3rd picture I liked the look of was the screen print on gold foil of Kate Moss by the photographer Nick Knight. This was a photograph that had been printed on to gold foil. It looks very impressive close up.

Image 3 - Model Kate Moss - Gold Kate - taken and created by Nick Knight.

When I was in Manchester I was also taking portrait images of people for the week 3 Photograph assignment, ( see planning a picture project )

I also took a few pictures of Manchester City Centre, of buildings, and when I was travelling on the top of the bus home.

Image 1 - ISO 100 42 mm F5.6 1/50 sec - China Town street lighting

Image 2 - ISO 100 48 mm F5.6 1/30 sec - Wet Shadow - I like the reflection of me taking the picture through the glass.

Image 3 - ISO 100 34 mm F5.6 1/160 sec - Back end of a bus.

Image 4 - ISO 400 25 mm F4.5 1/200 sec - I like the moody lighting and the church clock just about peeping through the trees in this image.

Image 5 -ISO 400 24mm F4.5 1/200 sec - The day was a day where the sun was out and then there was showers, you can see the wet areas and shading in this image of the building. very moody

Image 6 - ISO 400 42 mm F5.0 1/100 sec - There are some very beautiful Victorian buildings in Manchester, that still have retained there features.

Image 7 - ISO 400 34 mm F4.5 1/50 sec - The lone walk.

Image 8- ISO 400 34 mm F5.6 1/100 sec - Autumn Leaves.

Image 9 - ISO 400 25 mm F5.6 1/250 sec - Climbing High

Image 10 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/320 sec - When your cleaning windows.

Image 11 - ISO 400 18 mm F4.5 1/250 sec . Manchester street.

Image 12 - ISO 400 42 mm F5.0 1/80 sec - This image made me laugh, a Town Hall back street public house, hidden behind the rubbish bins.

Image 13 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/100 sec - North style - Albert Square.

Image 14 - ISO 400 34 mm F4.5 1/60 sec - Lights down the tunnel.

These next set of images where taken from the top of the bus looking out of the window

Image 1 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/320 sec - Contemporise glass windows. 

Image 2 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/200 sec - Deansgate.

Image 3 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/200 sec - Large House.

Image 4 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/30 sec - Hungry

Image 5  - ISO 400 52 mm F5.6 1/200 sec - Reflection of Time.

Image 6 - ISO 400 52 mm F5.6 1/125 sec - Canal Street.

Image 7 - ISO 400 55 mm F5.6 1/250 sec - Reflection behind bars.

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Garden Practise

Image 1 - ISO 400 40mm F4.5 1/60 sec - Autumn dew drops the colours in Autumn are beautiful at this time of year, the oranges and reds of the leafs are magnificent.

Image 2 - ISO 200 40mm F4.5 1/60 sec - Hidden World - is there a secret world hiding in our gardens ?

Image 3 - ISO 100 34mm F5.0 1/8 sec - Closed for Web - I like the rain drops on the web, over the closed gate on this image, it is my garden gate.

Image 4 - ISO 100 34mm F5.0 1/15 sec - I like the Shallow depth of field in this image, how the dew drops are clear and the background blends and melts out of focus.

Image 5 - ISO 100 25mm F5.0 1/25 sec- Poppy drops - This was my favourite image that I had taken in the garden, I love the black background, how the front of the Poppy is in focus, which draws your eyes in to this area first, and how you then move your eyes to the blurred out images of the poppy.

Image 6 - ISO 100 34mm F5.0 1/8 sec - Sea of dew - I like how the light reflects on the water droplets in this image.

Image 7 - ISO 100 25mm F5.0 1/40 sec - This image is not as crisp, or as sharp as I would have liked it to be, I had a bit of camera shake due to the settings of the shutter speed

Image 8 - ISO 100 25mm F5.0 1/6 sec - Dewdrop skirt

I took these photographs in my garden today, I love when the rain is slow and you can see the raindrops on the plants, flowers and bushes. it has been a damp kind of day, when there has been no bright light, which enhances the reflection in the water droplets. Its quite a magical experience.