Dog Fight

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Just a quick digital painting today. I felt that there was not enough colour on the blog, especially with the digital paintings so I decided to do a colourful one. I started by just doing the background, but when that was coming along, looking at the image I felt something was missing, the picture had no real subject or focal point and it also told no story. So I decided to put the dogfight in. I have been thinking of doing a piece with planes in so I felt this was a good enough opportunity. The painting is done in a widescreen format for that extra cinematic quality.

Wedding Photographer

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. It was due to the fact I was out all day as acting as a (assistant) wedding photographer for one of my brother's university friend's wedding. It was a really nice day, the weather was good (eventually) and it all went well, except for the best man dropping the ring. Anyway my role in this was to take closeup, arty photos with a long lens while my dad took the more traditional photos. Overall we took over 1000 photos, but here are just a small selection of some of my best.

Interestingly the wedding shared some similarities with the Royal Wedding earlier in the year. First the bride was called Kat(i)e, with a sister called Pippa, and a Lancaster Bomber did a flyover. The flyover was completely random and unplanned, it just happened to flyover.