Bump Baby Show Report

Sunday's 'Bump' Mother and Baby show organised by Imagine FM was a huge success, with a fantastic turnout in spite of clashing with the men's final at Wimbledon. Thanks to everyone who visited our stand, it was great to have so much interest in our baby photography and well worth the early start! Good luck to all the expectant mums that we met - we hope you enjoyed the show.

Janet discussing the Baby's First Year Folio scheme that was the main focus of attention on our stand... We'll see you again next year....

Baby Show Images

Today I took delivery of a set of large format exhibition prints for our stand at the Bumps Mother and Baby Show this coming Sunday. The 50" x 40" prints look very impressive and should hopefully turn a few heads. Thanks to Alf at Manchester Colour Lab for doing such a great job with the printing and mounting.

Look out for the pictures at the show!

Science World

The day after our soggy walk I was in the warm and dry surroundings of Haydock Park photographing the Science World 2009 Exhibition for Thermo Fisher Scientific http://www.fisher.co.uk/

One of the highlights for me was chatting with the original enthusiatic but slightly mad scientist Professor Heinz Wolff. A regular on TV when I was in my teens, the Professor was the popular presenter of programmes such as Young Scientist of the Year and The Great Egg Race.

He told me that he did three different looks when he was being photographed - normal, academic....and this one...the mad Professor!

Judith Haan, the long time presenter of Tomorrow's World , is now an award winning journalist and key note speaker. I caught her in contemplative mood as she showed a clip of herself presenting the original TV programme........

The most entertaining part of the day had to Dr Hal Sosabowski's elemental spectacle 'the Bigger Bang' ('as seen on TV'). This took me back to my school and University days, the last time I encountered test tubes and bunsen burners. This was schoolboy chemistry at it's funniest - loud bangs, lots of smoke and flames and exploding ostrich eggs! I can't remember any of the chemicals involved (though I'm sure there was some phosphorous in there somewhere) but I do know that the last shot shows a 'flame in a test tube reaction' that sounded like a barking dog and lasted a fraction of a second. I had my D200 set on on fast motordrive and managed to capture it at it's peak.

BUMP - Mother and Baby Show

Today we've confirmed that we'll be exhibiting our baby photography at the BUMP - Mother and Baby Show. It's taking place at the Hallmark Hotel (formerly the Belfry) in Handforth, near Wilmslow, on Sunday 5th July.

If you're coming along then please do call at our stand and say hello. If you haven't registered yet you can register at http://imaginefm.net/bump/ The good news is it's free! There's lots of interest for new mums and mums-to-be. Hope to see you there.

Circus with a Purpose

I was privileged recently to photograph the touring charity Circus Starr. The organisers gave me freedom to roam which was a great for candids during the warm-up and informal portraits. That said, the lighting backstage consisted of one glaring spotlight, which was challenging to say the least. I didn't want to destroy the atmosphere with flash, so I shot at 800 iso on my Nikon D200s with Nikkor 105 VR and Sigma 30mm f1.4 lenses.

Circus Starr tour the country every summer doing charity big top circus events to raise money for local charities. They do a fantastic job and the circus is brilliant fun. You can visit their web site at http://www.circus-starr.co.uk/ On this occasion they were raising money for St Ann's Hospice in Heald Green, a charity that we at Michael Turner Photography have worked closely with over the past couple of years.

Argentinian gaucho Gabriel...

Bring on the clowns....Duo Delbosque

Duo Delbosque entertained with this comedy western...Ouch!

Well the audience ceratinly enjoyed it.....who said the circus was only for kids!