Chris Gravett

Just recently I've been workng on a submission for this year's Shoot Out with Scratch Magazine. My friend Cat is a,oh not sure what she is, a beautician I suppose. She works in a Nail Bar and does all sorts of exotic and no doubt expensive nail designs. We entered the competition last year. It's a combination of the nail design and application and the photograph as the competition is judged on photograph. We are hoping to improve on last years results and hopefully at least make the top ten. None of that has much releveance to today's blog other than the images I produced have to be kept underwraps (unpublished) until the results are announced at Olympia in September. The connection is that I'm excited about our images and I can't share them with anyone.

So today's image is Man and Bike...

Simple title and simple image. Today there is just the one. A print of this will be exhibited at The London Photo Festival  in October. So if you like it why not pop along in October, in fact why not pop along anyway. The festival is a new event and to be honest I don't know a lot about it. I have been following it's evolution for some months after it was 'hatched' from some chat on a Facebook site. I am meeting up with the organisers in a couple of weeks and will no doubt find out a lot more.

I took the photo whilst walking round the ramparts at Aigues-Mortes in France. There's nothing much original about it but I like to think I've captured the intense light and shadow, the patterns and colour of the paving and something of the character of the subject. No doubt my thoughts will be born out or countered at the event!