The Bride

The Bride, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

The weather was fantastic on Saturday (2nd July) and the sun was beating down as I was photographing Gillian and Garry Hendries wedding at Corsewall Lighthouse near Stranraer.

As the afternoon started to come to a close some cloud cover came across and I took the opportunity to photograph the beautiful bride Gillian with the specatcular lighthouse in the background.

This shot was taken with a large burst of fill flash from a camera mounted speedlight to make the dress really stand out against the background.

Like a bird on a wire

Like a bird on a wire, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

I found this shot on a overcast and murky old day, when there was very little to photograph due to the weather. I snuck up on the two rooks and fired off a couple of shots before they could fly away. The image really suited a square crop and duo-tone treatment.

A few weeks after I had uploaded the image to Flickr, I got an e-mail from an Australian artist called Grant Wyness who wished to use the image as a starting point for an painting that he was working on.

The image can be viewed here http://www.flickr.com/photos/bailliephotography/4391873734/

Equestrian

Equestrian, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

I covered a memorial event today held by the Galloway Pony Club at Wigtown in memory of Mrs Pamela McNeill. It rained for most of the day, but it didn't stop the events, or stop me from getting some fabulous photographs. In particular this candid shot showing the relationship between horse and rider was my favourite.

Hare

Hare, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

My Dad was up visiting a few weeks ago and we were heading out in the car to take some pictures along the coast. Ten minutes into the journey we saw this hare sitting in a field. We stopped the car and grabbed our cameras. As we did it flattened itself in some longer grass. We crept up the side of the field trying to get a photograph, when all of a sudden and quite unexpectedly, the hare ran towards us and stopped about 8 feet from where we were standing. It sat and looked at us for a minute before running away again. Mad!

Deck Chairs

Deck Chairs, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

I was born and raised in Southend and despite living beside the sea never really spent a lot of time there! A couple of times a year we would attend the airshow or perhaps spend a few pennies in the arcades.

I returned to Essex a few years ago to photograph my sisters wedding. The days leading up to the wedding were blisteringly hot and I enjoyed re-visiting the promenade and taking some candid photos, this was one of my favourites.

Dickie Wood

Dickie Wood, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

This was a magical moment as I left home one morning. I lack the dedication of the true landscape photographer. I have tried on occasion to get up at sunrise with the specific purpose of taking landscape photographs. More often than not when I have done so, it has either been raining or a very disappointing sky. So I am much more an opportunist landscape photographer and when this scene came my way I had to stop the car very quickly and capture it! It is still one of my favourite landscape shots and it came runner up for a Kodak award in a competition during 2010.

Do you believe in magic?

Do you believe in magic?, a photo by Dan Baillie on Flickr.

We went along to the woods for this photo-shoot. The little girl really didn't want her picture taken and despite the best efforts of her mum, photographs were hard to come by. The little girl loves fairies and we began to play saying that we could see them amongst the trees. For a few moments she relaxed and I caught a few pictures. I had some fun with this in photoshop and added in one of the fairies that we thought we saw.

Portraits in the woods are magical, the light is very evenly distributed and there are frequent pools of light caused by the sun breaking through the foliage.