09 Jul 2008

A long break - Catching up continued

Ok so these shots encompass me meeting and then saying goodbye to Pauline.

First two shots from our first walk:

Lu'ay modelling:

Me:

Lu'ay...

...and George before Tom's house-party.

Some shots from some films I got back, some in Greece, others just random shots I like:

Aberystwyth on the weekend of shooting Ned's sister's wedding:

Rowan Johns:

Ben, tree-ride to X-Up:

A few random shots playing with lighting:

Oli and Pauline's trip to Bath to see Karen, Tom and Laura:

Some more portrait shots, shot with my new umbrellas:

Some shots from Trowbridge's new concrete skatepark:

St. Nicholas' market on the day of Pauline leaving:

My new shoes:

My camera bag:

08 Jul 2008

A long break

So, here we go, finally, a new blog post.

I have been ridiculously busy recently with working, and have just launched www.art-bidder.com, I have been riding and taking photos also but just haven't gotten around to blogging any.

I am going to attempt to blog more than just photos; links and interesting snippets, etc, but for the moment lets start with the photos.

First off we have some photos I shot of Dan and Del for Diamondback. I believe they are going to use them for an ad, although they seem hugely unorganised so I have no idea when that will happen:

And here's a shot of a new friend, James Wilson, we both like barspins:

And here is one of me doing possibly my best trick ever, taken by James:

To which Ian Black said "Oli 'Shutdown' Ward", which I would like to be my official nickname from now on....

Anyway, here are a bunch of shots I took at Bridport of Matt White for an upcoming Wideopen Mag piece:

Mega!

And a selection I took of Jakey D for another piece for Wideopen

Will Bartlet @ Bridport Outdoor:

Rowan Johns, rail-to-rail-to-chain!:

20 May 2008

Greece!

It's been a very long time since I've posted anything. That was because I went to Greece for 5 days and took 800 photos, I was sorting them all before making a post so they would all go up at once. One month later I am done so here are my best picks from the Greece photos.

08 Apr 2008

A lot of no-handers

01 Apr 2008

Sepia

I appear to have gone sepia mad, not deliberately, it just turned out that way.

More of an explanation of what the photos are and from when soon, when its not 3am.

07 Mar 2008

A varied lot

Some shots of Rowan Johns and Ben Savage, now on Diamondback:

A portrait of Ben:

False-colour landscape:

Some shots from a gig I went to at the Fleece and Firkin:

And finally a circuit board:

17 Feb 2008

More fun with gels

Well it looks though my almost exclusive stage of black and white photos is over, I have embraced a more colourful world, at least for the moment. I recently received a filter sample pack from Lee Filters and have been having a great time using the coloured gels.

I went down to Bridport for the weekend and shot only a couple of photos, very restrained:

I met up with Jo and had a visit to West Bay, which is always a good location for photos, but on a nice day its an excellent location:

And the sunset on that day was incredible, I was down the outdoor park at the time:

Here are a few shots from a twilight ride at Dean Lane, I love the last one shot through the wheel:

And this one from film from ages ago, I had to take a photo of the negative on my softbox to get this but it looks awesome:

I've also been shooting a lot of photos of Rowan as well as other riding and portrait shots:

I couldn't abandon black and white altogether, and on a hazy morning on the Waterfront there is no better format:

And finally a few silly little in-house studio-shots:

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06 Feb 2008

Fun with Gels

My, my, it has been a while since I last posted. And subsequently I have *a lot* of photos to post, now, what have I been up to...

I made a flash-ring out of cardboard, a white bin-liner, and lots of tape:

Played with some leaves:

Took some photos on a murky day:

Went for a ride and photos on Lucian's birthday (and went to his *awesome* part at the weekend!):

Made some gels out of coloured tracing paper, and took some photos with them, something I will be doing *a lot* more as it is so simple but makes such a difference to strobe photos. Another technique for the toolkit.

Went to take some photos with George at night:

Rode Dean Lane a bit, took some photos:

Rode Motion a bit and took some photos, including this ninja/blader:

And this AWESOME shot of Tom Free on his birthday ride:

Nicky came to stay and we did much stuff:

Including some portrait photos:

Lucian Maned-up on a huge rail, his first, whilst it was raining, and I took an awesome photo of it, team work!:

Then we took some portrait shots, with gels of course:

19 Jan 2008

The Holidays, Part 2

Finally got all my holiday photos sorted, mostly just the London visit ones here:

And some random shots from playing with my homemade softbox:

04 Jan 2008

The Holidays, Part 1

I have taken FAR too many photos recently, to such an extent that categorising them is becoming a bore. So I will be putting up my best of the 2,500 taken in the last week, in two parts.

Shortly before sunrise on the shortest day:

From my last day at CartoonStock:

A frosty morning:

Taken on Christmas Day:

Possibly my finest work:

And one of my favourite photos taken on film, of Lucian at Bridport:

20 Dec 2007

Studio time, bike time, night time.

04 Dec 2007

The Big Smoke

This weekend I went to London to visit my awesome friend Nicky, and stayed at her house. We visited the Natural History museum which was showing the Wildlife Photographer of the year award, which was immense. Anyway, here are a few shots I took (new lens!!):

And here are some random shots I took for a photo upload site I am building:

24 Nov 2007

Old Fools

I have photos two lots of photos for you today, the first batch is from an evening photo session John and I had in the Waterfront area:

The second batch is from last weekend where Rob and I went on the Old Fools Roadtrip to Cornwall, we went to Mount Hawk, Newquay and Cambourne skateparks and had an awesome time, here are some of the pictures I took:

13 Nov 2007

My monochromatic friend

03 Nov 2007

Westonbirt Arboretum

After taking Karen's excellent advice, yet again, Kathryn and I went to Westernbirt Arboretum, and it was amazing.

31 Oct 2007

Murky Cornwall

23 Oct 2007

Yay its Autumn!

I've had a request for larger photos so here you go, enjoy.

What we got for you this week? 3 shots of Levi from Dean Lane:

Ashton Court in Autumn:

Stourhead National Trust:

John's birthday:

And some shot from Motion: