Oliver Wood in Prestbury Living Magazine

Prestbury Living magazine has done a feature on me this month, essentially following on from a number of photo contributions. I provided all of the content and most of it has been printed faithfully which is very good. I believe I may be the first and possibly the last person to have an article published in PL that mentions the concept of existentialism, at least in an artistic context haha. At least it should go some way to convincing folks that the strange guy who takes hundreds of odd photos of the area doesn’t have some kind of dangerous personality disorder — probably haha. The editor asked me to define my artistic motives and you can see my reply on my other blog here:Prestbury Living Feature

I tried to do some more night work over the weekend. This time I decided to go up to the fields on the west side of the village but unfortunately had to abort the project in mid flow because it was just too cold to work and I was unable to feel my fingers after about three minutes. It is impossible to operate a tripod and DSLR with gloves on by the way! Shame, because the objective was to try and get some interesting images with light painting effects under a bright full moon and clear sky — hence no sodium glare.

Generally I’m still struggling along with things, ex employers not paying me and the apparent scarcity of work in my field is proving to be an extremely stressful thing now! Hopefully this year will turn up more good things and progress will be a distinguishing feature of 2010 for me — lets hope so!

Prestbury Living magazine has one of my photos on the cover this month, the same image is also used (rather more effectively) as background for an inside spread where its effect is quite impressive. I supplied several images for this but the one that I felt to be most appropriate for the cover has not been used — yet?

Of course I am grateful to the folks at PL for using my photos and as ever, any kind of publicity is always gratefully received.