The Navel Stone - Highly Commended

I'm really pleased to say that my image 'The Navel Stone' was one of two images awarded 'Highly Commended' status at the Wirral Spring Art and Photography exhibition.


As ever the submitted works were of the highest standard, and it really is an honour to have received the 'Highly Commended'.


The Wirral Spring Art and Photographic exhibition is open to the public at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead from Saturday 26th May until Sunday 1st June, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm. It is also open on the Bank Holidays on 5th May and 26th May. Admission is free and there is a free car park adjacent to the gallery.

Fitting Markins TS-327 spikes to a Gitzo 1325

I recently purcahsed a set of Markins TS-327 titanium spikes to fit my Gitzo 1325 tripod. The only trouble was they came completely devoid of instructions on how to fit. The rubber pad which the 1325 has by default seemd absolutely impossible to remove. Various options on how to get the foot off seem to have been floated round t'interweb for some time, and most seemed to involve some kind of heavy engineering - hacksaw to the leg or drilling the old rubber foot off. This isn't something I felt comfortable with. FYI the feet feel really firmly fixed on to the end of the carbon fibre tube.

So I decided to see what would happen if I heated the leg up (theory: most glue melts) , so I searched for an appropriate heat source in the house. The gas hob seemed to be the best item for the job, and after a few seconds heating the very end of the leg, it was possible to grab the foot with a pair of pliers and twist it free. I'm now researching the best adhesive to attach the new spike to the tubes with.

Image of the week

I'm starting to post a series of images which are the favourite I've taken in the previous week. Here's the one for the week ending 20th April. This was taken at Oulton Park on a race experience day. How fortuitous that they parked three Renault Clio Cup cars in a lovely row like this!

Framed images now available directly from the website

Framed prints are now available to buy from the tim myers photography website.

At present we're only offering a single frame style, a solid oak frame, but we hope to add more frame styles to our range in the coming months.

Wirral Spring Art and Photography Exhibition

I'm pleased to say that two of my images, 'Sunset At The Marine Lake' and 'The Navel Stone' have been selected for display in the Wirral Spring Art and Photography Exhibition which is held at the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead.

The exhibition runs from Saturday 26th April to Sunday 1st June, open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am - 5pm. It is also open on the Bank Holidays on 5th May and 26th May. Admission is free and there is a free car park adjacent to the gallery.

Autumn Landscape Workshops

Following on from the sucess of my landscape photography course earlier in the year, I'll be running another Wirral-based lanscape photography course in the autumn. This will be on Saturday the 29th of Spetember. You can download an information and booking form for the September course

Dilution of Trust

This morning on my way to work I heard a report on The Today Programme about Michael Grade speaking to the Royal Television Society about the current state of affairs in the TV industry. After the recent scandals regarding premium-rate telephone lines and actors appearing on daytime chat-shows, he warned the industry not to 'dilute the trust of the viewer'.

Yesterday I was showing the set of prints which are going to Dee Fine Arts to an interested party. When looking at my picture of 'Last Light Over Hilbre' they asked me "How much time did you have to work on that in Photoshop?". My response of "None - that's exactly how the transparency is" seemed to astound them. I explained how I'd used an ND grad filter to balance the levels of light in the sky and on the rocks in the foreground, and metered to allow enough detail to be caught in the dark areas of the rock but yet to allow detail to remain in the clouds in the sky.

I've recently seen images presented as 'exactly as taken' which would violate several knows laws of physics, require some major plate tectonics and a drastic change in The Earth's path through space.

Have the advances in digital imaging made in the past 10-years or so already diluted the trust of the public to a point where they can't believe anything a photographer presents to them as an accurate representation of the scene which is being illustrated? I hope not, but the proliferation of over-saturated, manipulated, composite images which I see again and again posted on websites is sometimes very saddening. If you feel the need to manipulate images in this manner I feel you should be honest about it. Admit the fact, you've got some great photoshop skills!