Worthing sunset panorama

For the last week I have been mainly office bound, doing accounts and edits. However yesterday I had to leave the building for 5 minutes as I had run out of milk!

The radio was full of news about poor weather, snow and ice but the light I saw as I walked to the shops was amazing. So much so I turned round grabbed the camera (D700 + 50mm in you’re interested), tripod, panoramic head and headed for the beach.

The result was an image I have had in my head for quite some time; a 13 image panorama of the sunset, beach and pier.



The image could be printed up to 4M long, perfect for the walls of a local business!

Matt Cardle

Seeing as Matt won xfactor last night, I thought I would post one of my images of the winner taken at The Royal Film Performance as week or so back. It was snowing heavily that night, it’s not dandruff!

Originally uploaded by Julie Edwards Uk

Snow cancels trains, staff cancels photography..

After hearing that Southern Rail had cancelled all trains until at least mid morning and having cancelled planned trip to Coventry I decided that possibly images of empty stations, customer information panels displaying messages of no trains might be newsworthy. So after covering myself with 6 layers of clothes I made of for Worthing station.



My first shots were down, along the tracks to the station. It was still fairly dark and I hoped the lights and the station would actually come out better than they did.



I then walked round to the station to ask if I could pop onto the platforms for a few seconds to take some photographs of the empty platforms at peek commuter time. Puzzlement and passing up the chain until the question got asked to the “Franchise Manager”. 


“No”.

“I’ll only be a few moments, just a couple of the snow and empty platforms” (showing my UK press card). 


“Photographs are not allowed to be taken in the station”,
“Why?”. 


“Because of security”


“We both know thats not the case here”



I was getting nowhere fast and for me the story had changed from the snow on the rails to the usual jobs-worth. Well I say story, it was not exactly a big story and I could not be bothered so I moved on the West Worthing station, got a couple of images as this station has no barriers..


A Change is as good as a rest

One of the great things about being a photographer is the variation of the work, the many people I meet and the requirement to keep trying new subjects and the challenges they place on me.

I can see no point sitting still and so over the past 2 weeks I have photographed a couple getting engaged (over a roulette table), a club bar, more live music, a royal film performance and some demonstrations. Each subject challenges in different ways.

With the couple, it was taking a nice happy portrait, showing the casino surroundings without taking so long as to intrude into their evening. With the bar it was dealing with very difficult highly coloured light. Live music is also about dealing with light; rapidly changing light. The two jobs i will go into more detail are the demonstrations and the Royal Film Performance.


The most recent demonstration I covered was the “Time To Go” demonstration, campaigning for the withdrawal of our troops. This was a nice peaceful march ending at Trafalgar Square. Of course, as a photographer I need to ensure the images I capture accurately reflect the event in total, capturing not only the overall atmosphere but also focussing on individuals that sum up the mood. Which images are actually used is down to the picture desk and newspapers. As always I looked for not only the obvious but also the not so obvious. The interaction between the surrounding public and the march itself fascinates me and whilst walking up whitehall I noticed these people watching the march from the comfort of a coffee shop.


My coverage of the march itself may be found within this London News Pictures set and also on Alamy here.

The problems faced at the Royal Film Performance were totally different; with marches I am always on the move, almost hunting photographs whilst at an event such as a film premiere, photographers are allocated an area and then we choose the best spot within.

For this event there were a number of things consider which included the weather, the background and the arrival of The Queen. With thick snow and wind, I felt that the weather would be an overriding factor as wind blowing snow onto the face of the lens is very difficult to overcome.

Snow also presents another problem; light reflects off the flakes and using on-camera flash produces uneven results in these conditions. Luckily there was enough ambient lighting to not use the flash but leave some snow visible (as I thought it an important part of the atmosphere of the event).


Some of my images from this event may be viewed on London News Pictures here, and Alamy here.