All posts by Bob McEvoy

Freelance Photographer.

Photo-Essay ‘Scrabo’

On Saturday 1st October, I went for a walk up to Scrabo Tower, on the outskirts of Newtownards.  This landmark has towered over much of my life, living and working around the Ards area.  The tower was built in 1857, 540 ft above sea-level, as a memorial to the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Viscount castlereagh, Charles Stewart.    The tower is situated in a country park, close to Scrabo Golf Club, and is approached by car only as far as the golf club entrance, then by foot up a steep path to the summit.  Thankfully, there are resting places on the ascent!

Being October, the road up to tower ran beside fields that had just been baled, – which provided my image of the day, and set the scene for my exploration of the towers surroundings.

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Dusty the Cocker

Meet DUSTY!  She’s a blue-roan Cocker Spaniel, and she came into the studio today to support #DogsTrust and to enter the National Pet Portrait Awards competition. She could win her owner the national prize of £1000 – and there’s great local prizes too!

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Why not enter YOUR best friend too and help DogsTrust make life better for other dogs.  Click:

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Sleeklens -Workflow for Portraits

I’m a recent convert to Adobe Lightroom.  When digital photography became a serious possibility in the professional photography world, I quickly realised that I was going to need Photoshop skills, but having learned the basics of Photoshop, I was disinclined to have to learn even more new skills. The phrase, ‘Old dogs, new tricks’ comes quickly to mind.  So despite all the seminars and articles extolling the virtues of Lightroom’s Cataloging and Developing capabilities, I flatly refused to have anything to do with it.  Ok.  I’m a Luddite! Continue reading Sleeklens -Workflow for Portraits

It’s Doggy Thursday!

Two lovely dogs in the studio today, to take part in the National Pet Portrait Awards, and make a donation in support of DogsTrust.  Shea is a Japanese Husky (a Shiba Inu) with a great nature, and Marley is a Labrador Pup with a lively, playful disposition!  Here they are…

And of course, with Marley looking up at his mistress, with those lovely big eyes, I decided to put him out in the now, where he could sit on a bench and gaze at the moon…

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