Back in September 2006 I attended a mini LightPainting tutorial lead by David McAleavy of
LightPainting.org who I had met a couple of times at social events in Glasgow, I had admired his work since I first came across it in early 2005, having had a few plays with the technique, I was more drawn to the possibilities that it had with locations, where Dave's work is more people based mainly, he has produced some great and eye catching work and I didn't want to be influenced by that, not to mention that some of it I feel isn't realistically within my current understanding of the technique.
After a few attempts at light-painted landscapes and locations, some of which were done as a partnership with my friend and fine art model
Chrissie at various locations, I thought about making more of a project out of it, my first idea was called "Repainting Scotland" but there is already a similar named project and the url was a bit hard reading, so I settled tor the slightly easier "
Lighting Scotland", so following on from and in conjunction with some of my other night photography work, this blog will be purely about working at night using any available natural or artificial ambient light, with the addition of artificial light from any source that I can lay my paws on, be it torches, car headlamps or floodlighting etc, in fact anything that emits light...
As the blog title suggests, this will mostly about Scotland, some well known and hopefully iconic landmarks as well as some lesser and maybe even some unknown and more abstract features.
Some of these projects are likely too big to do alone, so I will hopefully do more with Chrissie and anyone else that is interested in joining me to run around in the dark with big torches, flashguns and stuff like that.
This could take a while to really get under way, so watch this space...
