I was so pleased to hear that 'Snake-head Fritillary' has been accepted into the AOP Gallery's 'New Collectives' exhibition and print sales collection. This is quite a prestigious event and there are a total of 90 images in the exhibition so I am excited to be associated with it. 'Snake-head' is one of my personal favourite images, which featured in my MA Fine Art show and which previously won a Gold Award in the BIPP Northwest Professional Photography Awards.

I produced and mounted the prints, adhering to conservation standards, and sent them off to the gallery today. The exhibition opens on March 9th for 3 weeks but the prints will remain on sale in the gallery until September, being replaced as they (hopefully) sell. 

This print is being offered as a limited edition of just 50, signed and numbered and currently is available exclusively through the AOP Gallery.

Took part in a Live Q&A web discussion for Guardian Careers this afternoon, as a member of the 'expert panel', representing the BIPP and answering questions from those wanting to pursue a career in photography. It was an interesting discussion with a variety of questions from those wanting to embark on a career as well as from those who had already made a start and wanted to know how to move their careers on. 

Panel members included rock photographer Jill Furmanovski, fashion photographer and former AOP vice-chairman Lee Friend, BJP news editor Olivier Laurent, portrait photographer Anita Corbin and several others. It was fun taking part and the participants really seemed to appreciate the opportunity to find out more.

It has been a busy few weeks and too long since I last updated this blog. Partly this was due to being busy on other projects but mainly due to moving to a new server and launching a new site - maybe not such as good idea to have done both at the same time although it seemed sensible when I planned it.  The new server, with a slightly different setup, updated versions of operating system, database software etc and different methods of handling some things, caused a few headaches - first one thing would stop working then that would be fixed and something else would disappear completely or just not display or update properly. It took a little while to sort out and get familiar with so a lot of patience to get through it all but everything seems to have settled down now. I still need to add more to the store and images to the portfolios - this will be done as time allows.

If everything is now behaving as it should, this new site should prove a lot easier to use and quicker to update so I should be able to keep on top of it and update more regularly. 

I hope you like it - do leave me some feedback.

The blog has been quiet since I finished my MA as I have been catching up on all sorts of jobs that needed doing after the intensive last few months of study and preparation for the MA show. I also decided that it was a good time to rebuild this website from the ground up and include some of my more recent and relevant work, rather than the images which were on the previous site that had become a little dated and no longer reflected my style of image making. I also decided to add a proper store in which I could offer my prints, cards and other items to make it easier to purchase.

At last is now ready to go live. It is not quite finished, as more products will be added to the store and more images are to be added to the galleries and the photoblog still needs to be integrated but as I was moving to a new server anyway, it seemed like a good time to put it live and to continue tweaking rather than transfer the old site and then have to move everything again to the new one.

If you come across any missing links or other issues, please bear with me while I fix everything. Hopefully, once everything is settled in, it will be a lot easier to navigate and be less cluttered. Any feedback is welcome - please let me know what you think.