I took the opportunity to visit Gifford’s Circus on Sunday afternoon and it was a real theatrical feast! Every single person in the audience had a huge smile on their face. Brilliant!

Saturday was the final night of GB Theatre Company‘s 2010 tour and I took the opportunity to photograph the show at Arundel Castle on the South Coast. It was quite noticeable just how quick the nights are drawing in and it was dark by the interval. The resulting photos were dark as a result and so I chose to process them as mono images.

I have avoided putting people into my photographs for the last few years…I don’t know why. In recent months, I have increasingly enjoyed looking at photographs with people as the subject and black and white photography. So, after judging the photography competition at Ripley Show, I ventured out to observe and photograph the crowds. I have now created a new section ‘People‘ specifically for these shots.

I have just returned from two days in Dublin photographing the Shakespeare Festival. I came across ‘Famine’ by Rowan Gillespie. Between 1845 and 1852 over a million native Irish were forced into emigration during the Great Famine years. Dublin Docks was the departure point to a new life in Liverpool or The United States. I love the sculpting of the hands and the universal accessibility of the emotion.

It been a long week which started with my hard drive failing on Sunday morning. It took a further 2 days for a new drive to be installed and all of my fonts, software programmes and work to be reinstalled. So I have been up at 4.30am each day trying to catch up with work. So the bank holiday weekend is going to be spent at my desk. However, I now have 2 squirrels visiting the garden everyday, and I can’t resist taking a few shots in the afternoon. But there is little light and it means having the lens wide open and relatively slow shutter speeds.