Family Photography

"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
Marcelene Cox

Family portraits taken at your home - contact me in time for Christmas.

Party Time!

All images by Drew McWilliams LSWPP

Rathfriland, Co Down

A very prominent funnel shaped water tower occupies the high point in this riverless town, seen here in the distance from Drumballyroney Church.

A couple of landscapes - 11 hours apart

This is a piece of driftwood which I spotted as we travelled the Great Ocean Road, Australia.

This is Dromore Cathedral. Of course this image wasn't taken 11 hours after the other, just the two places are 11 hours apart on the other side of the world!

Remembrance Day Dromore, Co Down

The parade made it's way through Princes Street to the War Memorial at Market Square. After the Act of Remembrance the parade made it's way to a service at Dromore Cathedral.

Thoughts.....

Memories.....Pride.....

The full set of images may be viewed at Dromore Remembrance Day.

One scary dude with a big chopper

From the City Guide to Valencia: the Mercado Central is a masterpiece of modernist architecture. Designed in 1914 by Francisco Guardia and Alejandro Soler it was inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1928. With a surface area of over 8000 square meters, inside you can find almost whatever in the more than 1000 selling posts: fresh fish, vegetables, meat, fruit... You must go inside to feel the atmosphere of the market, and being surrounded by the smells and colours of this place.

So there was I, wondering around the market with a wide angled lens hoping to capture some rich candid shots. The demeur of the butcher, as he watched me approach with my Nikon was such that I didn't feel safe photographing him surreptitiously and I nervously pointed to my camera and made signs with my face and shoulders which I intended to say, "Would you mind terribly if I photographed you?" This is his pose and not a word was exhanged between the two of us! I hurriedly left the market, checking over my shoulder as I went.

Done it again!

I was delighted to be awarded another Gold Award, this time for monocrome portraiture, in the monthly 'Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers' competition. This is my second gold success in two months. Bertie was a lovely man who wasn't too keen to be photographed and I usually had to chase him around Mourneview Park when he saw me with my camera!My October silver awards for Landscape, Pictorial and Exterior Architecture are included below.