Greg has been a photographer for 8 years and relocated to Tarrant Hinton from Southampton in 2008. He lives with wife Maddy, and their two children Violet and Joseph. As a wedding photographer Greg has photographed weddings across the UK and has even travelled to shoot a wedding in France. The TP Photography style is modern reportage with a mix of both romantic wedding images which focus on natural interaction together and traditional shots.

The Photography Lighting workshop on Sunday September 26 will take place in Tarrant Monkton Village Hall. The course is £50.00 and is suitable for complete beginners as well as those with a little more experience. All equipment will be supplied and there will be the option to review shots taken.

The course will include information on; equipment basics, using a light meter and taking readings, hot to choose the correct power / aperture and why, and more information on light modifers, studio lights and flash guns.

The Wedding Photography workshop is on Sunday 3rd October and will also take place in Tarrant Monkton Village Hall. The course costs £65.00 and again is suitable for beginners or more experienced photographers. Information and topics covered will include; equipment, breaking down the day, how to shoot the wedding, preparation, “before, during and after” the wedding, creating great bride and groom portraits and more…

For more information or to sign up contact Greg on 07834 490393 or email greg@thurtlepower.com or to have a look at some of the stunning images taken by TP Photography visit http://thurtlepower.com/.

When the site was displayed using the .com domain it threw up an invalid api key error.

Here is the fix:

Some applications may be hosted on multiple domains. For example, many content management systems push the same content to different domains (e.g.example.com and example.net) and wish to have that content single-sourced. Since Google Maps API keys are generated per domain, you’ll need to generate separate keys for each domain and configure your application to use the correct one. The easiest way to do this in JavaScript is to dynamically generate the 

tag using 

and assigning the correct domain-specific key within the src attribute’s URL as a parameter. In doing so, you’ll need to pre-generate and hardcode the list of keys within your application.

Create an object which contains a mapping between domain names and its corresponding Google Maps API keys. Use 

to retrieve the domain name your application is running against, and pass it into the object to select the appropriate key.

Below is a JavaScript snippet you can copy and paste into your application. Replace property names labeled 

on the left with your list of domains and assign to each entry its corresponding and unique Google Maps API key.

When using the snippet above, be sure to include it within your HTML document above any script tags or JavaScript containing references to Google Maps API objects.

Iron Baby is an amazing ‘spoof’ of the Iron Man film series.

Made by a French Canadian autodidact director, Patrick Boivin. For most of what you can see on his YouTube channel, he wrote the script, operated the light, the camera, the directing, the editing, the animation and the special effects… For some of them, I also made the sound and the music.

In a 2009 Department of Health survey of 2,000 adults, four in 10 admitted they didn’t know those facts about calories in alcohol.

The survey also revealed that the average wine drinker consumes 2,000 extra calories each month. Over the course of a year, that’s the equivalent of eating 184 bags of crisps or 38 roast beef dinners.

Calories in alcohol are empty and extra-fattening

Wine, beer, cider, spirits are made by fermenting and distilling natural starch and sugar. The high sugar means alcohol contains lots of calories – seven calories a gram in fact, almost as many as pure fat!

Calories from alcohol are ‘empty calories’ – they have no nutritional value.

It’s not just the calories that are a problem for our waistlines. Drinking alcohol reduces the amount of fat your body burns for energy. While we store nutrients, protein, carbohydrates, and fat in our bodies, we can’t store alcohol. So our systems want to get rid of it – and doing so takes priority. All of the other processes that should be taking place (including absorbing nutrients and burning fat) are interrupted.

Alcohol and appetite

Along with drinking alcohol comes the temptation to snack, once you’ve had a drink your will-power goes and you give-in to the take away on the way home, the bag of crisps or chocolate that you have been refraining from before. According to the Department of Health survey, almost one in three people order crisps, nuts or pork scratchings to accompany a drink, while nearly a fifth regularly opt for takeaway food.

More than six out of 10 drinkers have an unhealthy breakfast if they have a hangover.

How many calories are in my drink?

With a pint of bitter the same as a medium slice of pizza, and a standard size ‘ready to drink’ bottle (‘alcopop’) the same as 100g of cookies, the calories from alcohol soon add up…

Gin or vodka and tonic =126

gin or vodka with diet drink = 56

Dark rum and coke =142

Medium glass of white wine (175ml) =130

Medium glass of red wine (175ml) =120

Bottle of wine (white) =555

Bottle of wine (red) =510

5% Lager (pint) =240-50

Cider (pint) =180-250

Stout (pint) =210

Bitter/Ale =180-230

Liqueur (50ml) =100 -170

Brandy (50ml) =110

Whiskey (25ml) =55

Mixed drink (Ready to drink) (275ml bottle) =160-228

The Government guidelines recommend that women should not regularly exceed 2-3 units daily and that men should not regularly exceed 3-4 units daily. Drinking within these guidelines, and trying to give yourself a couple of days off alcohol every week, will help you avoid piling on the pounds.

It seems that their PR or marketing companies had uploaded the programs and failed to provide a disc of originals to the organisations. The first couple of times this happend I put down to lethargy in the organisations internal marketing departments not wanting to be bothered to send me the files, but after the fifth time it seemed to be a trend.

So I had permission to use the footage but no way of embedding clean visuals without the YouTube logo, I also would much prefer to host and control the footage myself.

There are a few online sites that will rip the video for you and allow you to save it as .FLV or .MP4.

Some examples are:
http://keepvid.com/
http://vixy.net/

These worked ok but were quite slow and wouldn’t rip the HD versions of the video. After some searching I stumbled across MacTubes.

This neat little app (yes Mac only I’m afraid), is free to download and use and works fantastically well. It allows you to search, play and download videos from YouTube even in HD 720p and 1080p versions if they are available.

System requirements:

• Only for Mac OS X.
• Universal binary application supported PowerPC / Intel(R) processor. (Maybe)
• Mac OS X 10.4.2 or higher / Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.(Maybe)
• Safari 2.0 or higher / Adobe Flash Player Plug-ins 9.0 or higher

Download:

http://brpg.hp.infoseek.co.jp/mactubes/index_en.html

Screenshots:

Everyone needs to exercise.

It amazes me as a personal trainer, the amount of people I meet who do no exercise at all. They get out of bed, drive to work, sit at a desk, drive home from work then sit on the sofa and watch t.v, before going to bed. Does this sound like you? Most adults today spend the majority of their time sitting in front of a computer or a TV. Our increasingly sedentary lifestyle has led to obesity rates higher than this country has ever seen before. Even our children are battling obesity. Your children learn eating and lifestyle habits from you, so if your inactive you can expect your children to be also.

I’m sure for most of you guys who are stuck behind a desk all day, you probably think you don’t have time to workout, or your not overweight, so it doesn’t matter?*
Wrong!*

I’m sure most of you spend copious amounts of money and time protecting your computer form viruses, make sure its running smoothly and keeping at its optimal health. Yet you do nothing for yourselves?! Read on to find out why its important for us all to exercise and simple ways to do it.

What happens if I don’t workout?

Before the age of physical maturity at about 25 years, our body is continually growing and developing and during this phase muscles and the entire body stays strong even without specific exercise. After we reach the age of 30, we basically have two options available to us. We can either begin the long process of becoming weaker or we can work to maintain our strength for the rest of our life.

After this point, if the body does not receive the necessary stimulus to trigger muscle growth, a slow process of muscle wasting begins. This loss of muscle tissue hastens the degenerative processes and conditions that characterize the dreaded ageing process.

Muscles and the bones they are attached to become weaker, joints deteriorate without strong muscles to support and cushion them; the metabolism slows (the rate the body burns fuel) allowing body fat to accumulate; body shape and appearance change. All body systems weaken including the immune system leaving one exposed to life threatening disease and illness.

The really good news is that it does not matter how old you are when you start, 60 year old muscles respond to strength training and exercise in exactly the same way 20 year old muscles respond – they get stronger. It is easily possible to become 100 to 175 percent stronger, even stronger than you have ever been in your life.

“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat”

Doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.

“Being thin doesn’t automatically mean you’re not fat,” Dr. Jimmy Bell, a professor of molecular imaging at Imperial College, London. Since 1994, Bell and his team have scanned nearly 800 people with MRI machines to create “fat maps” showing where people store fat.

According to the data, people who maintain their weight through diet rather than exercise are likely to have major deposits of internal fat, even if they are otherwise slim.

Without a clear warning signal — like a rounder middle — doctors worry that thin people may be lulled into falsely assuming that because they’re not overweight, they’re healthy. Just because someone is lean doesn’t make them immune to diabetes or other risk factors for heart disease,

Even people with normal Body Mass Index scores — a standard obesity measure that divides your weight by the square of your height — can have surprising levels of fat deposits inside. They believe that internal fat disrupts the body’s communication systems. The fat enveloping internal organs might be sending the body mistaken chemical signals to store fat inside organs like the liver or pancreas. This could ultimately lead to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, or heart disease.

The good news is that internal fat can be easily burned off through exercise or even by improving your diet. Even if you don’t see it on your bathroom scale, caloric restriction and physical exercise have an aggressive effect on visceral fat.

How to keep active:

At Work

• Walk to work if you can, or park as far away as possible and walk the rest.
• At lunch, go for a walk/jog or bike ride.
• Get a personal trainer to come to your office at lunch. That way your committed to working out.
• Have a gym near work? Go lift weights or ride the stationary bike on your lunch break.
• Instead of sending an email across the building, get up and walk to your co-workers office and talk in person.
• Take the stairs instead of the lift.
• Live close to work? Bike or walk instead of driving.
• Arrange for your office to have a group trainer visit at lunch times. Its great for team building, fills you with energy and will make your afternoon far more productive!
• Make an appointment in your diary to workout, the same as you would for a meeting and keep to it.

At Home

• Go for a walk/jog before or after work…or both! There are lots of ‘early bird’ classes and gyms open now.
• Work in the garden or mow the grass.
• While watching TV, lift some weights, do an exercise dvd, walk on a treadmill.
• Walk the dog–they need exercise too!
• Get a personal trainer to come to your own home either before you start work or when you finish.
• Play with the kids.
• Housework burns a huge amount of calories.

Spare Time

• Plan your holidays to be as active as possible i.e biking, hiking, backpacking, walking, swimming.
• Take your kids to the park for a picnic. Take a Frisbee, a football or other games and just have fun as a family!
• Go out with the family swimming.
• Turn the music up and dance in your living room!
• Like to golf? Walk instead of renting a cart.
• Join an adult sports team. Gym or just start working out with a friend.
• Get out and about where you live. Instead of spending weekends at home in front of the t.v, go out for a walk. Dorset has the most amazing countryside and beaches in the country. Make the most of it.

All it takes is a little creativity and a bit of effort to fit some extra activity into your day! Try to find things that you enjoy or that you can easily incorporate into your daily routine so that extra activity simply becomes a way of life. Give it a try.

Your office based workout.
Try this great little workout at your office, you only need a couple of meter’s space. Do only as much as you are able to and slowly build up to completing the reps and times. Listen to your body, if your feeling tired or unwell, stop.

1 minute skipping
30 sec. alternate squat thrusts
15 press ups
REPEAT X3

1 minute skipping
30 sec. squats – finish as low as you can, making sure the knee does not travel over the line of the toe.
30 sec. cycle crunches fast then 30 sec. slow – 1 leg in per second.
REPEAT X3

30 sec. burpee’s
30 sec. split squats (static lunges), (each leg)
1 minute plank
REPEAT X3

Followed by a whole body stretch for 5 minutes.

Remember folks, fitness should be fun, if its not, change it and find something you enjoy!

For further advice on Personal training, group classes or just general health and fitness questions, don’t hesitate to email me on charmaine@trainwithcharmaine.com or call 0782 444 6561.

There has been an upsurge in the innovative use of vinyl recently, not least for laptop customisation. Taking that one step further Hu2 Design have created some amazing avant garde  interior design elements using die cut vinyl.

They have just about every room in the house covered and the art is not just decorative but useful too, from eco reminders to directional signage.

Anyone who has ever tried knows just how hard it is to make a one colour design work and be instantly understood, the guys at Hu2 have managed this feat with aplomb. The designs are not just quirky but classy too, and probably won’t date too quickly, the great thing is that if you get tired of them the vinyl’s are completely removable. You just need to scratch a corner and then peel it off.

They should definitely be considered vector art masters.

The founder and originator of the Hu2 design collective originally from Paris, Antoine has worked in Miami and London for the past few years.

Known as a Designer, Antoine wanted to deliver a product and service that was born out of the creativity and talent of those employed by and affiliated with Hu2 Design. A way for people to come together, present their ideas and have the opportunity to develop them in a truly collaborative environment.

Some examples of the stickers can be seen below.

For more information and mode designs go to – www.hu2.com

This will hopefully be an interesting experiment and throw up some intriguing comparisons of style and equipment.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND HOW DID YOU GET IN TO PHOTOGRAPHY?
Cobram, Victoria… Population 3600 at last count (When I was 13) My interest in preserving moments came from my mum not letting me use her camera, a Pentax SLR, and me waiting until she went into town one day and stealing said camera and emptying what was left of her film on photographs of farmy type things… the dogs, the cubby house, the peach tree I used to climb in… Mum developed the film and after me getting a smack and sent to my cubby house, she realised that maybe I had an eye “or something” for photography… A love was born

WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED GENRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? EG PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPE, SPORT ETC
Right now, Music… I love music, I’ve been a musician of sorts for ..well, since I was 6… and melting photography and music together makes me smile

WHAT IS YOUR WORKFLOW PROCESS FROM IDEAS TO EDITING?
Take the last shoot I did, for The Grand Majestic at a little underground club in London called “Underbelly” — I didn’t have a brief, I just wanted shots that said “energy” as is their music style, and I wanted edgy… So, after shooting (Almost always in Canon RAW) I import into Lightroom and tag on the way in, for ease of locating and also for web keyword stuff… I muck about with the sliders and export what best explains the feel of the gig to the viewer… Or, at least I try…

WHAT ARE YOUR TOOLS OF THE TRADE?
I’m all digital these days, though I’m looking around for a Nikon FM2 and a 50mm f/1.4 …I use a Canon 5D Mk2 and a Canon 30D with a 50mm f/1.4 lens and a 24-70 f/2.8 lens mostly… Sometimes if I’m a long way away I will drag out my 100-400 f/4.5-5.7… I have a battery grip on both bodies (LOVE them) I use Sandisk cards, thinkTANK camera bags and god given eyes.

DIGITAL OR FILM STOCK?
As above, Digital for now – Sandisk 600x cards right now, but looking into a bit of film so I can burn through a couple of rolls of Ilford XP2…

IF YOU COULD ONLY USE ONE LENS FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE WHAT WOULD IT BE?
One lens…. Hmmm…. the 50, yeah, easily… I love that lens! No red ring, no fancy stabilisation… just a sweet, compact, fast fun lens!… f/1.4 is hard to use and hard to stop using!

WHERE DO YOU HOPE TO GO WITH YOU PHOTOGRAPHY?
Not really anywhere, I’d like to be remembered for a shot or two from time to time, but as long as I’m happy whenever I get where I’m going, we’re good!

WHICH OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS DO YOU ADMIRE?
Most of them, really.

WHO HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST IN TERMS OF PHOTOGRAPHY?
A bloke named Richard, he was a friend of my mothers…

WHAT IS YOUR BEST TIP?
Slow down… think some more, then shoot…

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WORK AND WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WORK?
The biggest influence on my work is the sound I’m hearing when I release the shutter – Counting Crows, U2, Metallica, Linkin Park… They all get different photos because their music is all different and I love it in different ways. I continue to look for inspiration in the more unsigned acts we’re seeing, or sadly not seeing today… there are some amazingly talented people out their and shooting them, playing, is special.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURATE FILMS, BOOKS AND MUSICIANS?
My fave film would be “Singles” it’s a 90′s film about love, life and music… Books, well… I like a good adventure novel and I love a good inspiring photography book.. those big thick coffee table ones…

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR WITH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY?
I started music photography as a self challenge… I’ve photographed Alice in Chains, Metallica, U2, Counting Crows, Lenny Kravitz, Dave Matthews… the list goes on and on and I’m blessed by each artist I’ve shot! I see shooting each band as an achievement!

10cc

Acker Bilk

Airbourne

Airbourne

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains

Alien Ant Farm

Anthrax

Avenged Sevenfold

Boyz 2 Men

Counting Crows

Dave Matthews Band

Dave Matthews Band

Elbow

Franz Ferdinand

Gang of Four

Hot Chocolate

Jeff Beck

Jet

Lenny Kravitz

Linkin Park

McFly

Metallica

Nine Inch Nails

Papa Roach

Razorlight

The Prodigy

Tinchy Stryder

U2

U2

]]> http://www.blownpixel.co.uk/2010/03/whats-the-difference-simon-pollock/feed/ 0 http://www.blownpixel.co.uk/2010/03/whats-the-difference-yulia-gorodinski/ http://www.blownpixel.co.uk/2010/03/whats-the-difference-yulia-gorodinski/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:20:27 +0000 dave http://www.blownpixel.co.uk/?p=199 I have been setting up a series of interviews with photographers from around the world who have (mostly) different passions and subject focus.

This will hopefully be an interesting experiment and throw up some intriguing comparisons of style and equipment.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND HOW DID YOU GET IN TO PHOTOGRAPHY?
I live in Israel, in a small town called Ashdod by the sea. I have been into photography for about three years now. Once I was chatting with an Italian guy on Skype, he linked me his photos on Flickr, just snapshots.

Then I started browsing the site and I saw some artistic photos and I thought that I want to have such photos of myself as well. So at first I had a point and shoot camera a few months later I bought Canon 400d. And since then I am taking photos.

WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED GENRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? EG PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPE, SPORT ETC
My preferred genre of photography is self portraits.

WHAT IS YOUR WORKFLOW PROCESS FROM IDEAS TO EDITING?
Sometimes I have ideas for photos sometimes I just go somewhere and start improvising. If I have any particular idea in mind I write it down in my notebook, also write where I want to take it, what should I wear and such. And I want to execute it as soon as possible.

There are times I come somewhere and I may get inspired by something I see at that location, a rock, a hill, something I haven’t seen before, and I come up with some pose, idea at the spot. I usually shoot outdoors because I don’t have any cool indoor locations.

My dream is to shoot in hotel rooms, I just love hotel rooms. As I finish taking photos, I edit them in Photoshop, I usually like giving them vintage look.

WHAT ARE YOUR TOOLS OF THE TRADE?
I use Canon 400D, Sigma lens 18-200mm, remote controller, tripod and I have a Polaroid 636 Closeup.

DIGITAL OR FILM STOCK?
Digital

IF YOU COULD ONLY USE ONE LENS FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE WHAT WOULD IT BE?
To be honest I don’t know, I am not an expert in photographic equipment.

WHERE DO YOU HOPE TO GO WITH YOU PHOTOGRAPHY?
I would like to continue shooting, to make it a career if possible, it’s something that I like doing most! Photography is my love, my greatest love.

WHICH OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS DO YOU ADMIRE?
Guy Bourdin, Julia Galdo, Miss Aniela, Elle Moss, Kristamas Klousch.

WHO HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST IN TERMS OF PHOTOGRAPHY?
No one in particular really. I just have an enormous passion for photography.

WHAT IS YOUR BEST TIP?
Practice and experiment.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WORK AND WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WORK?
I am inspired by movies, videos, music, light, things I see, pain.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE FILMS, BOOKS AND MUSICIANS?
Fave films-Noise (starring Trish Goff), Japanese story, 21 grams,Run Lola Run, Buddy (Norwegian movie) , Leni, Paranoid Park. Books- David Weiss- “The Assassination of Mozart” Irving Stone- The Agony and the Ecstasy. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Musicians- Angels and Airwaves, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets, The Drums, Friendly Fires, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Big Pink, Static X, Silverstein, The Kooks, Muse.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR WITH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY?
I won a commendation prize at the Digital Camera photographer of the year and the photo was exhibited in London, also one of my photos was exhibited in Barcelona, I have been featured in fashion magazine, and recently I shot for a designer (Charlie My Love) also I am going to be featured in Israeli magazine in April.

LINKS TO YOUR WORK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuliatangled/

This will hopefully be an interesting experiment and throw up some intriguing comparisons of style and equipment.

WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND HOW DID YOU GET INTO PHOTOGRAPHY?
Im from Israel. I was a high school drop out sat at home for a few years with nothing to do because everything outside was too scary I was very depressed and lonely ,my grandmother eventually just said I enrolled you in a photography course I was 18 I thought it was bizarre and out of the blue completely, I only did the course 2 years later didn’t understand a thing about how the camera works but I knew I was in love.

And that was that. Then I had a photographer boyfriend that filled in all that I didn’t understand.

WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED GENRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY? EG PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPE, SPORT ETC
I do love landscapes but Im more into portraits I am doing self portraits for the past year and half I find it easier to deal with myself rather than having anxiety about shooting other people. I do love fine art nudes and erotic photography when tastefully done its very very beautiful.

WHAT IS YOUR WORKFLOW PROCESS FROM IDEAS TO EDITING?
It usually ends up something completely different from what I originally had in mind which is good, I like starting a shoot with an overall direction but Im up for anything once I start.

Having said that I do get annoyed often cause Im a perfectionist and I don’t like it when unplanned things happen but it usually always ends up in my favour.

When it comes to editing I wish I was brilliant with photoshop but Im not. I usually play with colors and that’s about it I wish I knew how those vogue masters get a film effect on their digital shots I wish I was better in editing. I definitely don’t like all that over editing a lot of people do I like to keep it as real as possible. And as classic as I can.

WHAT ARE YOUR TOOLS OF THE TRADE?
I use a Nikon D300 usually with a Nikon 85 f/1.8 but when I need a wider view as the D300 isnt a FF camera unfortunately ill change to my Nikon 17-35 f/2.8. I also have a Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 which I never use I should sell it. I don’t have any pro lights unfortunately I have to get one and a light box Im sure Ill enjoy that allot. For now I just have a lamp that lights my low ceiling so it falls evenly on me and I have reflectors as well to help soften shadows. Unless I want them harsh and contrasted.

DIGITAL OR FILM STOCK?
I prefer film to digital any day especially medium format but its more expensive to shoot because of film and printing expenses.

IF YOU COULD ONLY USE ONE LENS FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I only have 2 lenses I use at the moment and if I had to keep only one it would be the 85 f/1.8 that I have the bokeh is always so soft and the photos are always so pastel I love it.

WHERE DO YOU HOPE TO GO WITH YOU PHOTOGRAPHY?
I hope to sell my work and make a living from it. I want to get over all my anxiety and start shooting other people as well.

I want to exhibit all over the world and have my own studio.

I have had a few women tell me how great it is to see thighs and that they feel better about themselves after seeing me out there with my curves so I hope that only continues.

I hope people can look in the mirror and just smile, and stop comparing themselves to other people and to what society says we need to look like. If my photos can help than ill be very happy.

WHICH OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS DO YOU ADMIRE?
Terry Richardson one word : genius.

Anniken Hannevik I love her pastel edits
http://www.annikenhannevik.com

Bill Durgin just discovered him and Im so in love with his work.
http://billdurgin.com/figures_and_wares.html

Mario Testino
http://www.mariotestino.com

DUDI HASSON
http://www.dudihasson.com/

WHO HAS INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST IN TERMS OF PHOTOGRAPHY?
I don’t think I can name a person that influenced me when I started shooting it was always just what I felt. Only now Im looking more into other photographers and learning more about what it takes to get a good shot and Im still so far from achieving it cause I don’t shoot other people so when it comes to directing them and getting the image I want I still am not that experienced.

WHAT IS YOUR BEST TIP?
Go with what you feel, work with your gut. And always be open to critique.

Always try to be better don’t ever think you are there cause that’s when you stop learning and stop challenging yourself.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WORK AND WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR INSPIRATION FOR YOUR WORK?
I love going online and discovering new photographers all the time I can spend hours going over photos but I wasn’t doing it as much during my 365 last year cause I didn’t want all those images and poses to be stuck in my head cause Im not a model and I didn’t want to get into that mindset now that my 365 is over I am trying different things.

I love simple I don’t think you need a full production to get a good or interesting shot.

Influences have been Jonathan Leder among others who showed me being nude can be so beautiful.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE FILMS, BOOKS AND MUSICIANS?
My favourite books are ones that leave me with something to think about.

Anything with lots of emotion will keep me flipping pages although I need to be still to sit and read and I havent had that quite in my mind for a long time.

Movies are the same I love dramas but also a simple story will be fun to watch I don’t get that American humour so I don’t like most of the Hollywood stuff.

My favourite movies are Arizona Dream and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

When it comes to music Im a huge Mike Patton groupie.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR WITH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY?
My biggest achievement so far was my exhibition in August after living in hiding all my life I came out into the light and now theres no turning back. And Im very happy to be out there and to be able to do what I do and the fact that people are interested in it and want to see more is humbling and unbelievable all at the same time.

I do hope my biggest achievement is still awaiting me in the future.