Picture of the month | July 2011

I'm ashamed to say that July was a really quiet month for photography.  To be honest the work required to organise my forthcoming exhibition has totally taken me by surprise, unfortunately meaning far more time being spent in the office than I would normally hope for.  There is an upside though.  Everything is in place for the opening night and I now have a couple of weeks free for nothing but photography.  Now all I need is the weather to be obliging.

I did however manage a couple of photography trips this month but ironically my photo of the month was actually captured on a private photography workshop at High Force in County Durham.  Whilst Xavier explored various different compositions from near the top of the falls, I couldn't resist composing a couple of shots of this wonderful location.

It has been a while since I last visited High Force.  In fact it has been 7 years! On my last visit I was shooting with my (then new) Canon EOS 20D and still carried a medium-format film camera with me.  A lot has changed with the technology behind the making of my images yet interestingly this shot is not that dissimilar to my favourite image from my last visit to the falls.  Just goes to show that a good photo will always be a good photo, regardless of the equipment used.