Few weeks ago I found quite interesting project. Every week Crash Taylor interviews various photographers “whose work pushes the boundaries of our profession to create images that are emotional, edgy, original, and most of all capture a unique moment in time” – as he describes on his website.

I must say that I really got into it and read every single interview that showed up so far. Crash managed to surprise me twice recently.

Firstly, he posted an interview with Bartosz Jastal, Polish Wedding photographer. It is very nice for my to see Polish photographer right next to such people as Jeff Ascough or David Beckstead.

Secondly, last night he interviewed Michael Grecco, Portrait and Fashion Photographer. I’ve known Michael’s work since I got more interested in photography, especially fashion side of it. I was very impressed with his book “Lightning and Dramatic Portrait”. What’s more, it is an excellent exercise to analyse lightning set ups he uses for his work. Below is a short video clip of Michael at work.

Source: Ambient Life Photography

At the beginning of this year I became a member of the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP). One of the benefits are monthly meetings with other photographers from the Yorkshire region. It’s great opportunity to network and also learn from established professional photographers.

Last night’s guest was Tim Wallace, commercial photographer specializing in car photography.

You need to check Tim’s website out. His work is really stunning and a bit different than you would expect out of car photographs. What is more, Tim highlighted that fact by himself during the presentation. We had a chance to see some of the light set-ups and short video clip of a photo shoot for Land-Rover.

If you interested in seeing how Tim works, then he is doing a series of live shoots in cooperation with Jaguar and Land-Rover. You can find more about events on Tim’s website

Two more pictures from last visit in Poland.

While visiting Cracow we found out that there was Student Rag going on.

It brought back all good memories of times we had at uni. And I must say it I really miss it, we were complaining about lots of things, especially tutors :). It is so irrelevant now comparing to adult’s life. I wouldn’t mind to go back in time and live again all these parties at Reguły Street, Kunegundy Street and Sienkiewicza Street ;), long walks with my dog and hours spent playing Starcraft.

Back to reality and here are few photos of students’ freedom ;)

Operation Wedding – that’s the code name of my last Holiday.
We went to Poland for a week to finish off all outstanding matters with our wedding. Basically speaking it meant visiting places, getting documents signed and paying inexplicable fees in every office/bureau we went to. All in all we manage to do it, we even found time to have nice day in Cracow. There is no more turning point now ;) I have to do it :D and there’re 39 days left to big day.

We also met our wedding photographer Jacek Taran from fotopracownia.com at the end of our visit in Poland. I am glad I met him in person. Besides chatting about our wedding, looking at various albums and admiring photographs we also had a short talk about wedding photography in general. Jacek is another person I met from Polish Wedding Photographers Forum that I am member since January. Now it’s not only avatar any more :)

At the end my lovely wife to be – photograph taken in Cracow.