For those of you who don't know him this is Andy. It's not a portrait picture of him per se - just a snap shot taken on one of our evening forays together where we were shooting for pleasure - our pleasure that is.
It's the "shooting for pleasure" trips which result in virtually all of the fine art pictures you see on our website. Shooting for ourselves as opposed to for a commission helps to keep us focused and fired up with fresh ideas to try in the studio.
I especially like this picture of Andy because it shows him looking up almost as if he's looking for inspiration - or could it be wondering what the hell the brolly is meant to be doing for him? He doesn't look comfortable with the brolly (he hates them in real life - prefers to get wet!) and he's trying to work out how to hurry me up with what I was doing. What I was doing at the time was trying to persuade him to prat about whilst I took some "dragging the shutter" pictures of him to create an almost "ghost like" effect. I'm a people watcher and for anyone the same as me you will be able to read into Andy's stance and body language that he's getting a bit impatient and wanting to be off - or at least take the camera off me for the next shot! The graffiti on the wall I think adds to the picture.
Now here's the thing...below is the picture which was the next shot. It shows "The Sundowner" pulling away from Scarborough Station last summer on one of it's few steam hauled trips from York to Scarborough. It's really hard not to wax lyrical about Steam Trains and photographing them. We have in the last couple of years been really fortunate to photograph a wedding on the North Yorkshire Moors railway. The photographs are always atmospheric. It really was an almost magical era when Steam Trains were around. The photograph below is available to purchase from our fine art range as a limited edition signed print.
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