How to build a Punch and Judy booth, Weymouth

How to build a Punch and Judy booth. Not terrific quality pictures, I'm afraid, as I only had a digital compact on me.

But quite interesting as I've never seen this done before...

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Beach street photography from Swanage, Sunday 8 June

Three photos from the seaside at Swanage, Dorset, Sunday 8 June 2014, early evening.
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Takeaway, Swanage

Promenade shelter, Swanage

Swanage beach

Companion Dog Show, 25 May 2014

A few photos from yesterday's Companion Dog Show at the West Bay Showground, near Bridport. The show is organised by the Rotary Club of Brit Valley.

This was the first photo session "on foot" since being on crutches from early February.

As always, click photos for bigger pics/slideshow.

I've photographed this small dog show several times before. Here's some of my favourite photos from previous years:

Recent history: Weymouth, May 2005

Recent history: Weymouth, May 2005. Click for larger version

The old Weymouth stripey fast food huts (now decommissioned)

More pictures from crutches - Weymouth and Bournemouth

A few new photos. I'm still on crutches but have occasionally ventured along the coast to Bournemouth.

As always, click on pictures for bigger versions/slideshow.

Crows, Weymouth

Beach, Weymouth

Cafe, Weymouth

Lifeguards, Weymouth

Mayor's charity duck race, Bournemouth

Beach, Bournemouth

Pier approach, Bournemouth

Print sale – Take Away, Bournemouth

The second print offer of the year is my well-known “Take Away, Bournemouth” picture. Print size is 15 by 10 inches.

My usual price for a print of any picture at this size is a modest £150 but I am offering this print for just £14. The offer ends mid-day Thursday 1 May, although the price may rise closer to that time so order now!

Print (showing borders). Click for larger version:

The image has been exhibited in my solo shows of seaside photography around the UK, and is in the In-Public 10 book and the accompanying In-Public exhibitions. So, don’t miss this rare opportunity!

Details
Paper size: 15 by 10 inches; image size 12.75 by 8.5 inches. Digital C-type print, printed on gloss Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper.
These unmounted prints are despatched in sturdy poster tubes.

Price is £14 plus p&p @
UK/Europe (£5)
Rest of World (£7)

Please add the appropriate amount onto the PayPal on this page to make your order:

http://www.paulrussell.info/sales/takeawaysales.html

Any queries to: paul.russell99@btinternet.com

What’s In Your Bag (no. 833.5)

My photo daytrip packing list. As used throughout 2013:

Water
Food
Back up (hard drive)
Torch
Papers (newspapers to read on journey)
Camera + battery
Phones + power pack (portable charger)
Wallets
Glasses (spare)
Toothbrush (and paste)
Nasal spray
Pens + notebook
Nurofen (actually Tesco ibuprofen)
Business cards

Vitamins (take before go)
Food and water (again – don’t forget to take)
Sunscreen (as necessary)
Earphones (for phone – music to block out noisy passengers)
Hat (as necessary)

Japan Camera Hunter eat your heart out...

"The Photograph that Inspired Me" - fLIP magazine

I've written a short piece on "The Photograph that Inspired Me" for the current issue of fLIP magazine. I chose this Tony Ray-Jones photo (which is not reproduced in the mag):

Details about this issue and the magazine are here:

http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/magazine/flip27-connections/

The mag is available in the bookshops at The Photographers Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Serpentine Gallery and others listed in the link above. It's a very nice magazine and this issue features contributions by Julia Fullerton-Batten, Jim Mortram, Anita Strasser, Astrid Schulz and John Philips.

Weymouth on crutches

Unfortunately, I've been on crutches since early February this year - fractured metatarsal! It's proved an interesting experience, and not as frustrating as I'd feared.

Despite my very limited mobility, I've managed to take a few shots around Weymouth this month:

As always, click on the pic for a larger sized version:

Print sales offer update

I've put up new print sales page where the six prints that I've offered over the past year are available to buy instantly for £35. These are some of my most well known images.

http://www.paulrussell.info/sales/sales_new.html

All other prints remain at £150. A two-tier pricing structure!

Brighton 2013 update (in 2014)

Last year (2013) between March and October I made a load of trips to Brighton to photograph what the place possibly meant to me. (Brighton in all its dilapidated splendour?)

Before the year was out, I made an edit of 53 photos, and a book of the 53 - as this was a specifically 2013 project, I wanted to produce something tangible in 2013. These 53 are shown in the 12 February post below.

Now that some time has passed, I've taken another look at what I've got, and made a representative selection of 30 photos for the web, with slightly larger picture sizes.

The new gallery is here: http://www.paulrussell.info/gallerybrighton30/00.html

Tony Ray-Jones footnotes: Ramsgate 1967(ish)

While searching for the well known Tony Ray-Jones “Ramsgate” picture, I came across this impressive version. It’s unusual in that there is more detail present than in all the 20 or so other versions I found online.

There is also significantly more detail present than in the Russell Roberts compilation – this book was widely praised for the quality of the printing and wrung hitherto unseen details out of the Ray-Jones negs, which were often hard to print. There is slightly more of the neg image shown in this online version than in the Roberts book – for example, a schoolboy at the right-hand edge of the picture is less cropped (and lighter/clearer), and there is more of the football visible at the bottom of the frame. Also some murky areas in the Roberts reproduction are revealed to be more discarded pairs of shoes.

So, I thought this version was worth posting below.

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This photo is captioned as Ramsgate, 1967 in the Russell Roberts book, but c. 1968 in the Only in England book.

Brighton Belongs to Me - final edit from 2013

Final edit from 2013 of my Brighton Belongs to Me project, carried out between March and October 2013. Click for bigger:

Brighton blog

Twenty-four of the 53 images are here.

Three photos of the Red Arrows

I seem to have quite a few photos that feature the Red Arrows, at least tangentially. Here's three, for example:

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Bournemouth

London

Brighton

New photos from January 2014: Bournemouth, London, Brighton...

Some recent photos from Bournemouth, Southampton, London, Brighton.

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Reserved, Southampton

Orange Yard, London

Brighton

Curtain, Bournemouth

What remains of Christmas, Brighton

Dancer on break, Bournemouth

Fighting Ladies print sale deadline

The deadline for this print offer is Tuesday, 7 January 2014, 14.00 hours GMT.

My usual price for a print of any picture at this size (15 by 10 inches) is a modest £100 but I am offering these for £18 plus p&p.

Please see the blog post under this one for full details!

Prints will be despatched at the end of the week.

Paper size: 15 by 10 inches; image size 12.75 by 8.5 inches.

The image has been exhibited at galleries in London, New York, Berlin, Warsaw, Stockholm, Cardiff, Derby (Format Festival), Tel Aviv, Bangkok and Bruges, the Street Photography Now book and most British national papers. So, don’t miss this rare opportunity.

Please contact me to express an interest or for payment details, stating the country you would like the print despatch to on paul.russell99@btinternet.com

New Year's print sale - Fighting Ladies, Bristol

The first print sale of the year is my well-known fighting ladies picture. Print size is 15 by 10 inches.

My usual price for a print of any picture at this size is a modest £100 but I am offering these for £18.

UPDATE: DEADLINE is 14.00 GMT Tuesday 7 January!

The image has been exhibited at venues in London, New York, Berlin, Warsaw, Cardiff, Derby (Format Festival), Tel Aviv, Bangkok and Bruges and published widely. So, don’t miss this rare opportunity!

Details
Paper size: 15 by 10 inches; image size 12.75 by 8.5 inches. Digital C-type print, printed on gloss Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper.
These unmounted prints are despatched in sturdy poster tubes.

Price is £18 plus p&p @
UK/Europe (£5)
Rest of World (£7)

Please contact me to express an interest or for payment details on paul.russell99@btinternet.com

The Independent newspaper

London poster advertising the Street Photography Now exhibition

Ice-skating with Bob Dylan

Yesterday I went ice-skating with Bob Dylan
Well, when I say Bob Dylan, it was actually my old friend Terry
But when Terry didn’t turn up
It dawned on me that he was an IMAGINARY friend
So I stayed in and watched telly

Seasonal print sale, part 1. Zippy man (“Charity, Bournemouth”) - UPDATE

I had more requests for this yesterday than I had prints - so I am making some more prints. Please order by contacting me on paul.russell99@btinternet.com, stating your country of residence. Thanks.

Price is £18 plus p&p @
UK/Europe (£5)
Rest of World (£7)

Seasonal print sale, part 1. Zippy man (“Charity, Bournemouth”)

The first item up in my seasonal print sale is this much loved Bournemouth bench scene.

The print on offer is taken in November 2004, and priced at just £18 (compared to my usual asking price of £100 for prints at that size) plus postage and packing. The prints are 15 by 10 inches, and are part of my occasional affordable print phenomenon.

The image has been published and exhibited widely - for example in the 2010 Street Photography Now book and the In-Public 10 years exhibitions and book.

So don’t miss this rare opportunity!

Details
Paper size: 15 by 10 inches; image size 12.75 by 8.5 inches.
Digital C-type print, printed on gloss Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper.
These unmounted prints are despatched in sturdy poster tubes.

Price is £18 plus p&p @
UK/Europe (£5)
Rest of World (£7)

Please contact me to express an interest or for payment details by email at paul.russell99@btinternet.com

[prints showing border size]

“Fides, Spes et Caritas”