Welcome

Welcome to the news / blog page of Ray Lawrence Photography. Having found this page, I hope you will find the content interesting, follow and return, maybe even recommend to others across your network. The page has been established to compliment http://www.raylawphoto.co.uk and demonstrate my wider photographic interests beyond freelance editorial sports photography activity which is undertaken in collaboration with TGS Photo Ltd.

To be completely honest, have been looking to create this page for some considerable time. However, writing an introductory post is quite fear inducing, especially having read all the do’s and don’ts on line about what makes or breaks a post. Eventually I decided, whilst all these posts have merit, I could spend forever mulling over the right approach or refining the advice on what works and what does not and never commit anything to the site. I just needed to set out something I believed in, which hopefully hits a note with others.

The website itself is undergoing change. The opening rounds of the World Rallycross Championship (2017) and all the fixtures covered from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 remain in the archive as these events hold very special memories.

The focus of the site now points to other areas of interest which may be the subject of future posts, and I hope to convey sufficient in the imagery to capture the imagination of those who view. As with all forms of artistic expression, photography is very subjective – one individual’s like may be polarised from the next person. Importantly, you the viewer will have an opinion. It is this which counts.

The image which accompanies the first post proved to be a bit of a fluke. Fascinated by some images seen at a local camera club, using a reasonably slow shutter speed and panning to provide other worldly effects, was keen to try out.

Without too much of a plan, I tried a myriad of shutter speeds, panning from a moving boat on Derwent Water, in quite overcast conditions, the focal point beyond the immediate wake. Whilst most were completely unusable, I found myself drawn to this shot and it is now used as a screen saver, header for my blog page, and will appear on the web site shortly along with some other images from my most recent quest which fall into the bracket of abstract or similar. I hope you enjoy.