The last year has been crazy getting Edgelands up and onto a wall and the last week has been even crazier but life and work go on.

I’m looking at rebuilding this site so I started experimenting with new designs last week. It will take a while to work out what works best but I still want to be able to go from shoot to on-line within 3 hours of the shoot finishing. That was a parameter I set myself shooting events at UCS and it worked well by using The Turning Gate Plugins for Lightroom. Experience has shown though that it is this blog that gets most traffic on the site and active blogging is something I enjoy anyway so the new site may well be restructured around the blog.

In the meantime, work on the collaboration exercise with other photographers on the Orwell docklands had stalled. This was in the main down to my full time devotion to getting the show hung at the Museum of East Anglian Life. So far all that effort has been worth it but it was great last Friday morning to get on with a dry run to test procedures getting our gear up onto the roof of one of the UCS building on Ipswich dock.

This is a stitched panorama. I don’t drop into Photoshop to do much with my photography but I do find that in some of my projects where I want images stacked or panoramas made that I can undertake my basic raw processing in Lightroom then sit back and let Photoshop do some magic whilst the kettle goes on. I hardly had time to get the tea made this morning when this one got knocked out.

Just after we got down from this roof the heavens opened and we had more or less 24 hours of rain, enough I am sure to have filled the dock. At least we have an idea of what is is we want to shoot whilst we are up there. Let us hope for more inviting skies next time.