Education,education, education!

Here are some academic images shot for press and personal purposes over the last week.

My wife graduated from Abertay University on Thursday. Here is a shot I felt worked quite well.

I then met up with Perth Academy rector Charles Kiddie as he held a dinner for his retiral and held the school's award ceremony at the Perth Concert Hall.

And teachers retirement.

A quick link

For those who dont know, I teach digital photography classes at Perth College. During the 8 years I have taught there there has been a wide range of students in terms of photographic ability. Some come on the course to learn basics about digital photography and there have been others who are obviously good photographers before they come on the course and are just looking to smooth off any rough edges they have. One such person was Tom Fincher who has now progressed onto creating his own website of landscape and macro images he has taken recently. Go take a look.

http://www.tomfincherphotography.co.uk/index.php

There have been a few more that have also shown a talent and I do not mean them any dis-service by ommiting their name here. You know who you are.

Pushing in another direction

Recently I have been really busy as the three areas I work in have started to clash and combine this with home life it has been difficult to have much spare time. The end of June is where I am trying to get to as suddenly I will free up much more time - Perth College classes are over and my sister's wedding (I am giving her away and organising the stag do) will be over.

The plan for this summer is to become much more efficient at portraiture and hopefully pull in more work in that area. Here is something i produced recently of my son Kieran. Used two lights and processed in Photoshop to acheive a look I was after..

Calling all present or ex Perth College Digital students

This is a request for any ex or present students of the Digital Photography classes at Perth College or surrounding learning centres.
I have started a Facebook page for digital photography in Perth where you can post photo, keep in contact with others, ask questions etc, basically an extention of the courses.
Here is the link to the website. If you are not a Facebook member you will have to sign up before joining.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=75961848324

Thanks
Shaun

Recent images

Here are some of the images I have taken over the last month.

The Matthew Dance Academy put on a show for the public at Perth Theatre on Friday night. Pictured are all the preformers before the show.

Images from Perth Races over four meetings.


Images from Ladies Day on Thursday.





A Pre-Wedding shoot for Chrisann and Jamie at Birnam/Dunkeld





Some football

And finally following on from last post here are some of the images from the shed fire. I think its the best set of news images I have taken but unfortunetly the paper never used them as they couldn't develop it into a usable story.

Fire

A fire I happened upon travelling back from covering football this afternoon. I will post some more once the paper does something with them.

Basketball and football images on Youtube

This is action from this years Chairman's Cup final. I am experimenting showing it in Youtube format. A link to my Youtube Channel is now on the right of this post.

And some old football