Snowden Mining Company

2011 Snowden Photography Competition ‘Celebrating the Mining Industry’ was created to reflect the mining industry as it is today. It provides a unique opportunity to capture the diversity and beauty of the work.  This years submissions have grown over 1000 and I have managed to place in the top 65, my work will be displayed in the exhibition held. Unfortunately the exhibition are held in both Australia and South Africa. The images chosen in shown below:

Renowned landscape photographer, Richard Woldendorp, was leading the judging panel. This is a great honour for my work to have been chosen as his work is incredible, if only I had the finances to experiment with aerial photography.

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National Geographic

National Geographic is one the largest non-profit institutions for science and education in the world. The institute covers the interests of geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation. Whilst searching the social network facebook I noticed a post made by the official National Geographic Society, linking a post to there website. I then realised my photograph had been used for 'Travel Photo of the Week'. This is a great privilege however I would have liked to have been informed by the company that they had used it. The photograph used is displayed below and the link.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photo-of-the-week/?source=link_fb20110726tpow-cornwallengland

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Hide Views

Martin Mere Nature reserve is brought to us by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust who are a leading conservation group saving wetlands for wildlife and people across the world. The nature reserve is thriving with bird life therefore a variety of hides have been situated around the wetlands. Below I have photographed the landscape which can be viewed from the hides.

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Flatbed Backgrounds

By the end of the summer I would like to have my own personal photography website up and running. I am currently trying to produce my backgrounds, I prefer clean simplistic design. However I don't want to have one block coloured background. Therefore this brought me to flatbed scanning, by using this technique it has allowed me to have a clean white background with a natural form bringing more interest. Here are a few examples which I have produce any feedback would be helpful.