Saturday afternoon in Birmingham and having watched the excellent BBC drama “Desperate Ramantics” depicting the lives of the Pre Rapaelite brotherhood, we thought a long overdue visit to the Birmingham museum and art gallery was in order to check out the Raphs!

I think my favorite is Rossetti’s Death of Beatrice,it’s a fantastic moment in time.

Now we had left it all a bit late getting into town so just managed a quick swish around photographer Nadav Kanders “Obamas People”, a collection of portraits depicting the members of Barack Obama’s White house staff. It’s a great piece of work and well worth a look as it tours around, but I’m pleased to say that Birmingham got it first!

Just seen that Levi Roots of “Dragons Den” fame has a new TV program about to hit our screens so I thought I would post a shot I grabbed of him a couple of weeks ago while out on a job. I didnt get long with him (just a few seconds in actual fact) so just threw caution to the wind and used he Nikon D3’s ability to shoot in next to no light to get a portrait of him.

He was a really nice chap, full of energy and its was great to photograph him….thanks Levi!

Levi Roots

Well I was in Birmingham today to treat myself to a couple of CD’s and parked on the roof of the car park just next to the bull ring when the sun came out, and so I found myself lingering around on the top floor snapping on the iPhone.

I quite like the results! Although the hanging around a carpark I’m sure should be course for concern at my age? I might have to get a skate board to blend in with the youth if I shoot any more…….!

Here are some images from the Cardiff bay area on from last weekend. All captured on the iPhone, with a little post production in a few new apps.

Now if only Apple would just improve the quality of the camera it would become a great little set up, it’s just lacking a few mega pixles.

OK so I’ve been totally rubbish of late when it comes to the blog due to one thing and another, but all that’s going to change starting this weekend!

I’ve been stacked with work for the last two months (not that I’m moaning, it’s great to be working in these money strapped times) so have been looking forward to a weekend away.

I had been to Cardiff once before on the way back from a bike race and thought the whole bay area was fab and would make a great short break, so here we are, with good friends Clare and Richard.