Author Archives: Chris Hawkins

Redknap Family Bible Images

I have scanned a few of the pages from the Redknap families bible. The notes on the front and back covers started in 1863 and cover a few generations of the family, they include the births and deaths of the Redknap family. The Redknap Family seem to have spread far and wide from their Thames […]

Ella

Some shots from a shoot this afternoon with Ella. [svgallery name=”ella1001″]

Pinhole Images

Some pinhole images I took several years ago for an A level project.  I used a pinhole camera from bobrigby.com and polaroid film to capture the feet of my girlfriend.  The images are wonderfully wide angle and each took around 8 minutes to capture.  The final two images were taken with a homemade film canister […]

Aerial Photos of Northamptonshire

Way back before Google Earth was around, I was lucky enough to be flown by my Father over a few areas in Northamptonshire. We took off from Sywell Aerodrome and flew over Finedon, Towcester, Paulerspury and Pury End.  The photos were taken on negative film and later the prints were scanned.  Larger versions are available […]

Photography Served

I have been showcased on Photography Served!  The site showcases art from a range of different disciplines including typography, design and of course photography. At the moment, my work is on the main page, but it can also bee seen here – http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/Water/351208

St Mary’s Junior School 2010 Calendar

Just completed a Calendar for the St Mary’s Junior School in Old Basing. I did the photography, layouts and the post tweaking.  Not easy and some of the images are rougher than the others, but the staff knew their ideas were a little more ambitious than previous years and where very happy with the work. […]

Page Rank

A little experiment into Page Rank, one of the considering factors used by Google to position a site on a web page.  The following sites are all connected to or written by me. Page Rank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms.  […]

Tori Treasure – Artist and Graphic Designer

Local artist Tori Treasure was over today to get some of her recent artwork photographed. Her most recent project has been connected to the launch of the forthcoming book Concrete Operational. She had trouble finding a way of getting her artwork ready for the launch parties book.  Scanning gets very expensive and tricky when art […]

IronMum pictures in the Gazette

The photos I took of the Bramley IronMum event a few weeks ago have been printed in the Basingstoke Gazette (last Friday) and without permission / credit in the Gazettes website. The Gazette forgot to send anyone to photograph it for themselves, and asked to use my shots, they didnt want to pay anything which […]

Wedding Fair

The first wedding of the season organised by Trevor Cruickshanks.  The well attended fair had a short wedding dress fashion show organised by Jayne Ann Brides. [svgallery name=”weddingfair”] More Basingstoke Wedding Fair dates, locations and details can be seen on the BasingstokeWedding.com site [svgallery name=”weddingfare0909″]