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Monday, August 21
View Article  Images of Knaresborough at McQueen's Cafe
by Mark Sunderland on Mon 21 Aug 2006 14:37 BST

It's all change at McQueens Cafe in Knaresborough with a new set of artwork on show!

I now have a selection of six local images on display, including this shot of Knareborough Castle.

Along with the Knareborough images, I still have the two sandstone images Sandstone Swirls and The Tooth on show, as announced in a previous post.

McQueen's can be found at 51 High Street, Knaresborough - see www.mcqueens.eu for details

 

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Wednesday, August 2
View Article  Mark Sunderland Wins English Heritage Photography Competition
by Mark Sunderland on Wed 02 Aug 2006 13:11 BST

Excerpts from a recent press release...

Knaresborough photographer Mark Sunderland has won a defining image competition run by English Heritage photography project ‘Images of England’.  Mark, who has been an Images of England volunteer for over a year, photographed the East Pier Lighthouse in Whitby and his image was selected from thousands as the winner.  Mark won a state of the art digital camera, a Photoshop training session and a £500 voucher for ‘Sky imaging (UK) Ltd’ who sponsored and judged the competition.


East Pier Lighthouse, Whitby by Mark Sunderland

Krystyna Szulecka, also from Yorkshire, took second place in the defining image competition with an image of a listed Boundary Stone near Long Preston, winning a ‘Sky Imaging (UK) Ltd’ voucher.  For further details on Krystyna’s work, see her website www.clikc.co.uk

The Images of England project, run by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage, has created an easy to use website that allows people to research the listed buildings in their local area and compare them to others across the country.  Almost 260,000 images of listed buildings, taken for the project, along with statutory list descriptions, can be viewed by visiting the Images of England website at www.imagesofengland.org.uk

Mark said: “My winning image was taken at the end of an enjoyable photography day with a group of other Images of England volunteer photographers.  I saved the lighthouse until last, hoping to capture it in some decent late afternoon light, and was rewarded with perfect soft sunshine which adds a little mood to the image whilst still retaining the architectural detail required to record the subject for the Images of England project.  Rather than a closer vertical shot of the building itself, I thought it better to set it in its environment.  I spotted the boat approaching on the horizon, so waited for it to just enter the harbour to add to the image.”

“Wherever I have photographed for Images of England, I have discovered so much more about local history and architectural heritage and am very pleased to have been involved in such an invaluable resource for the future.”
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Tuesday, August 1
View Article  August Image of The Month: North Window and Turret Arch
by Mark Sunderland on Tue 01 Aug 2006 10:36 BST

This month's image is one of the oldest images on my website, but remains a firm favourite.

I took this image on my first trip with a group with Nigel Turner around the Canyons of The South West in 1995.  We had stayed at Moab, quite some distance away, rather than in Arches National Park itself, so had to get up very early to be at this location in time for the summer sunrise.  I've seen quiet a few images of this subject, and they mostly have plain blue sky behind the arch, so we were quite lucky with the nice cloud formations on the horizon - however, this nearly spoiled the shot completely, as the low cloud was all around and it obscured the rising sun initially, making the formations look flat and lifeless.  Fortunately, a break in the cloud allowed the sun to stream through for a few moments, making the rocks glow and making this shot possible.

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