A Weekend of Photography

I’ve spent the weekend out taking railway photos, and have had some good luck with the weather.

On Saturday, I spent two hours at the South Devon Railway. I haven’t been there since around 2004 other than quick pop ins to Buckfastleigh, so was glad to get a chance to do a bit of linesiding. I am very pleased with the results, one of which is shown below while the rest are linked off of the Photography page on jonpotter.org



Today, I’ve been back to the WSR. The weather was quite questionable for the most part (apart from the inland end of the line), and I almost gave up at lunctime. However, the sun forced its way through for 1600 & 1700 departures from Minehead and I was lucky with some glint shots at Castle Hill. I didn’t wait for the 1800 departure as the sun was already quite low. Again, one shot below and the rest linked from jonpotter.org



I hope to get out and do some more photography soon, but for the meantime I hope you enjoy these shots!

Cheers
Jon

So, it’s been ages since I’ve posted here!

I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff in the past week or so. The centre of this is a single website that incorporates my (outdated) photography page and my bellringing compositions. Also included on the site is this blog, my twitter feed, basic facebook details. The new site is something that I’ve been thinking of doing for well over a year, so am glad to finally get around to it.

The photography section has been the main focus of work since the demise of fotopic earlier this month. This meant that I, like thousands of others, have lost all of my photos that were uploaded. While I have all of my more modern photos, and personal favourites, backed up, I have lost a large number of photos (the originals were lost in a hard drive collapse a few years ago).

So since the demise of fotopic I have been thinking about how to get my work back onto the internet. I already had a Flickr account – mainly serving as an online portfolio – which is now being updated and reworked to provide the basis for my new gallery. While the material will be on flickr, a full list of galleries will be on my new website, so visiting the new site presents all of the albums, thus cutting out the need for linking my flickr.

I’ve also been working on books recently, mainly out of fun. One is complete and available to buy already, although I’ll save the link until the new site is ready. I am also working on the possibility of having it available in shops at the railway depicted. The main book I am working on at the minute is essentially a collection of my favourite pictures. I hope to have the book finished & ‘in print’ by the Easter weekend. A screenshot of a spread from the forthcoming book is below.

I have a bunch of other fairly exciting (to me anyway…) ideas which will be worked on in due course.

Today I’ve been out shooting pictures on the West Somerset Railway with my dad, and have had some good results. Subject to weather, I’ll be going back for more of the same on Sunday. A teaser shot is below.

Jon