Mark's Blog

Around three weeks ago I was running a two day workshop with Joe Cornish at Paddy's Hole - a small, quaint yet run down fishing harbour at the mouth of the River Tees. During the workshop one of the participant's batteries went flat and he didn't have a spare. I therefore offered to lend him my Panasonic Lumix G1 as we still had another couple of hours to go before last light. Delighted at this, we set it up on my tripod where we were located on the outer collar of the harbour, which is made up of sharp craggy rocks. We decided to take a breather and whilst I was talking to Joe and another participant, the wind got up and blew the camera and tripod over. The result of which was a shattered screen, torn rubber eyepiece and badly disjointed tripod socket. A total write off it seemed... or...

On Friday 20th January 2012, Ted Leeming & Morag Paterson will be launching an exhibition at Joe Cornish Galleries in Northallerton. Titled Zero Footprint, all images from this exhibition have been made in one location. A vantage point just near their home at Dumfries and Galloway. The exhibition feature a series of subtle and atmospheric landscape images  which follow the changing series through the year. You are cordially invited to attend the launch party on the evening, between 6 and 8 O'clock. This will also be an ideal opportunity to browse all three floors which will be open on the evening and to meet the photographers who have permanent displays here - me included! Why not call in for a chat and a glass of wine? Regards, Mark...

As mentioned in my last blog, I’m now very pleased to announce Staircase Gallery officially open! – a permanent area to display my framed prints at the prestigious Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton, North Yorkshire (as partly seen by some opportunistic snapshots from my iPhone). Having been given the nod of approval 3 weeks ago whilst on the Isle of Arran, I got the message along the lines of ‘by the way, we are holding a grand opening on the 28th”(!). It then dawned on me that I had very few recent images in print, mounts or frames to display at launch.Therefore, with some help and advice from my photographer friends on Twitter (Thanks guys!), I finally ordered an Epson 4900 Large Format Printer along with a roll of Epson’s Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper. After a few initial cock-ups, I was finally happy with the results from the printer...

I’m very pleased to announce that from the 28th October, around fifteen of my landscape images are to be displayed on a long-term basis at the Joe Cornish Galleries in Northallerton. The directors of the gallery have very kindly allowed me to rent the large staircase area between the ground floor and first floor areas due to a major re-structuring of the first-floor rooms. Opening of New Galleries at the Joe Cornish Galleries, Northallerton This re-structuring has, for the first time in the galleries history, allowed passionate photographers like myself to display their images on an on-going basis and of course I’m throughly excited about the whole concept. Four rooms have also been rented out to some marvellous photographers which include Ted Leeming and Morag Paterson, Mark Egerton and my good friends Peter Leeming and Ruth Fairbrother both of which I run and host websites for (shameless plug ~ I’m sorry!). All framed prints will...