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16

Jun

Old Gaffers

The Old Gaffers festival is a local festival for old Gaff-Rigged sailing boats. Its been running for as long as I can remember, and as well as the boats, there is also a french market, loads of art and craft stalls, classic cars, bouncy castles, etc. All in all a rather good weekend, thats before you even get to the beer tent with over 40 real ales, and Rob Da Bank and the Cuban Brothers playing. Top notch.

This actually happened the beginning of the month, but I’ve only just got around to processing the photos…

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More info and all the tourist blurb can be found at the official site, yarmoutholdgaffersfestival

06

May

End in sight.

After nearly two years I have just two weeks left of my university career. Both exiting an scary at the same time. Full post-uni chat to come soon as I’m currently sat writing up my sketchbook for my final project. Sketchbooking is one thing I won’t miss from Uni…

As for my final project, I chose to photograph people who ride bikes. Nothing unusual there. I could have done something ground braking, flown to far flung countries or whatever, but currently I wanted to have some environmental portraits in my portfolio to compliment my sports photos. After this project I think it will be something I will carry on, and I think I’ll try and branch out into and do more portraiture, especially from a commercial point of view.

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In other news, I am participating in the year long photography project, ‘What is England‘, curated by Stuart Pilkington. Myself and 49 other photographers from around the country have set out to produce a series of images that answer six set briefs that reflect on our chosen counties, to build up a picture of England in 2010. The second photo ‘Group’, is now up on the site, the third photo, ‘Work’, will be up June 30th.