Last night was Light Night in Nottingham City Centre. It’s an annual event where the city puts on various light installations and displays. As always there was a great atmosphere with loads of people milling around enjoying the various projections and entertainment. Here’s some images I took whilst walking around the city:
I’ve just about thawed out now from the sub-zero conditions š
Jon
Yesterday I got back to the UK after spending the last week in Morocco. It’s the second time I’ve been there and hopefully not the last now I have family out there š Once again I took hundreds of pictures (there’s always something to photograph every time you walk out onto the streets!)
My last trip was to Marrakesh and the surrounding areas. This time we visited El Jadida, Casablanca, and Fes (and some other nearby towns). Here are a few pictures I’ve had time to pick out from the many I took:
I spent most of this trip focusing on ‘shooting from the hip’ – lots of candid photography, getting in close with a wider lens rather than shooting the action from a distance. The joy of this kind of photography is that it allows you to get closer to the people your shooting and connect in a different way. I’m not sure that one technique is better than the other but hopefully you can see the difference in the images.
I’ll upload more as I go through the images picking out my favourites. If you’re interested in the work you see here you can subscribe to my blog or follow me on twitter @Capperture for regular updates.
This weekend the Caribbean Carnival took place in Nottingham. It’s one of the best cultural events to take place in the city and always has a great procession and atmosphere. Here’s a few shot of this years event:
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It was a really great day and loads of fun to photograph!
Jon
Despite my best efforts to avoid anything to do with the Royal Wedding (other than enjoying a day off) my girlfriend dragged me out of the house, moaning and groaning to a street part in The Park in Nottingham.
Despite my reluctance to leave the house I ended up having a really good time and getting some great shots of everyone suited and booted enjoying themselves. The atmosphere was really chilled and relaxed and I have to admit that in the end… it was a good day š
I also had the pleasure of meeting one of my favourite wedding photographers Crash Taylor who was a really nice guy so that was an added bonus!
That’s all for now! I’m off to enjoy the sunshine whilst it lasts:)
Here are a few more street photography images from Prague. I’ve included images from a few of my highlights from the trip which include; the John Lennon wall – It’s covered completely in drawings, stencils and graffiti relating to the Beatles singer/songwriter, the upside down horse statue which is randomly hung in an old shopping arcade, and the hanging man which we must have walked past on at least ten occasions before reading in the guide book that he was there and finally looking up!
The rest were all taken on Charles bridge – one of the main tourist attractions in the city. Lots of interesting characters, my personal favourite is the girl bent backwards over the wall, that really can’t be comfortable!!
Jon Davies – Photographer
It’s been a really long time since I’ve uploaded any travel photography images onto the blog so it was definitely time for a couple of days away to capture some new images!
I genuinely love travel photography for many reasons. It combines some of my favourite things in life; exploring new places, meeting new people, experiencing new cultures, and last but not least – photography.
These hares were resident on the golf course we stayed next to, along with the old banger car – love the winters morning light on them, which is why this images has made it up here š
You’ll notice throughout the set of images I’ve posted up here and if you’ve followed my blog up until this point through my older images, that I’m not one for taking lots of pictures of the big tourist attractions and the sites from the countries I visit. For me the joy of visiting a new country and experiencing a new culture is all about the people. I love to watch people and to capture images of interactions and amazing expressions.
I’ve thrown in a couple of ‘postcard’ images of Prague to give a feel for the city. It’s a really beautiful city full of incredible gothic architecture, wonderful people and has a real fairy tale feel about it.
I’ll be uploading more images from this trip shortly so stay tuned for part 2!
Jon Davies – Photographer
It’s been longer than I would have liked since my last blog post but I’m going to do two in a row to make up for it. I’ll either get the second uploaded straight after this one or it may be tomorrow evening but it is coming š
These images are from one of the regular free events held in Nottingham and one of the reasons it’s such a great place city to live in.
Nottingham Night Light:
I think they give a good impression of the atmosphere of the night even if they may not be amazing works of art (I may or may not have had a couple of after work drinks before taking them!)
Hello!
So once again it’s been a while since I’ve uploaded any images on here! I really must start blogging more regularly, it’s one of those things that I always intend to do but then struggle to find the time for. Hopefully however, it’s been worth the wait as I have something a little bit different for you this time!
We had a bit of a experimental day at the studio (Saul Isaac Photography – http://www.saulisaacphotography.com) on Friday, got some models in and spent some time in the studio, at Wollaton Park and in Nottingham city centre testing out some lighting techniques we wanted to try and just generally shooting a bit of a different style to usual.
Here are a few of the images I took over the course of the day. There’s more to come in a separate blog entry which were my ‘dark side of the fairy tale’ images š
All of the models on the day were absolutely fantastic and really worked for their shots as it was FREEZING on the day!! so a big shout out to Jade, Lhoryn, and Emma.
Hopefully you like the images and I will be uploading some more themed, fashion inspired images shortly š
Ciao for now
Jon
I set myself a little project today. I decided to go out for a walk in the little town I live in near Nottingham armed only with my Canon 40D and one lens – the amazing Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro lens.
Having taken a few images and uploading them I decided to do something completely different with my edits and here are the results:
Having only one lens to choose from made me think slightly differently about the kind of shots I was going to have to take, however as you can see it’s a pretty mixed bunch with a combination of documentary, street photography, the ‘Bee Man’ of Beeston, and some proper macro work.
As I mentioned in a previous blog I recently joined the SWPP (Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) and entered one of their regular competitions. The results for half of the categories came back today with my results being posted as winning three Bronze awards in the categories of Contemporary Portraiture, Travel, and Glamour and Beauty!
Absolutely over the moon with the results and looking forward to the rest of the results being posted tomorrow. Obviously it would be nice to pick up another couple of awards but I will certainly be happy with three Bronze’s if that’s what I get.
Here are the winning images:
The girl crossing the street was taken in Paris earlier this year and was captured whilst I was working on some panning shots of people on bikes when I saw her crossing the road and grabbed the shot at the last minute (hence the car getting into shot, which I don’t actually mind) The Contemporary Portraiture shot was an image I took of my gorgeous girlfriend just before she went out to meet some friends, it was a quick grab shot I took which if I remember correctly actually made her late on that occasion, and finally the image I entered into the Glamour and Beauty category is one taken during a Boudoir session at Saul Isaac Photography – http://www.saulisaacphotography.com
I hope you like the images and I will post again shortly with some more updates!
Award winning wedding photography nottingham
Jon
A load more images that I didn’t have time to upload during my last post!
Enjoy,
Jon
So I have now managed toĀ have a lookĀ through some more of the images from Morocco and have sorted through a few to add to the blog.
The beautiful landscape shots, featuring one ofĀ the most amazing skies I have ever seen in my life (the images are nice but if only they did justice to what I saw!) are from the journey over the Atlas Mountains to the desert where the Hollywood blockbusters; Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven were shot. This was an amazing area full of fantastic, hospitible people and a far-cry from the hectic, hustle and bustle of Marrakech.
Having crossed the mountains and the desertĀ some of theĀ images are from various parts of Northern Morocco, including the journey from Marrakech to Essaouira. Whilst travelling this road you encounter the one area in the entire world, which produces Aragan oil – this is also the one area in the world where you are likely to see multiple goats stood up a tree (sadly missed photo opporunity as my driver wouldn’t stop) eating the Argan. Whilst passing through this area I was fortunate enough to stop off at one of the Argan refineries to meet the women who spend their days processing the Kernals into Oil by hand.
It’s one of the greatest pleasures of travelling when you meet people like this, who are so happy and content with their lives whilst living with so little – a truly humbling experience.
Some of the other images are from Essaouira; a lovely little coastal settlement, which strangely reminded me of parts of cornwall only with a much more eclectic mix of culture from all over Europe and a distinctly Bohemian feel to it all.
All in all Morocco is an amazing country. Marrakech is unlike any other city I have ever visited but if you can get over the initial culture shock you’ll fine an abundance of wonderful people, amazing food, and a nightlife like no other!
I will certainly be going back as I spent most of my time in the North and that leaves more than half a country to explore š
Hello once again,
Well I have finally managed to spend some time sorting through the many, many images I took whilst out in Morocco earlier this year so would like to share just a few of these with you all.
As one ofĀ the intentions of this blog was to give me an opportunity to get some of my personal work out thereĀ it is great to finally have an outlet for one of my passions (travel photography) I love the diversity of the cultures, people and landscapes and having the chance to capture these on camera is such a privilege and always gives me a fantastic buzz:
All of these images were taken in Marrakesh, which is an amazing, bustling city. It was a real culture shock arriving there but after a few hours getting accustomed to the incredible amount of attention you receive as an English tourist I soon settled into the swing of things and got down to the nitty gritty of photographing the people, the buildings and as you can see from the slideshow above; the Stalks, which nest on almost every building and roof top in the city!
I will be uploading some further images from other parts of Morocco I visited as soon as I’ve had chance to sort through them!
Jon Davies Photography Blog 
