A selection of posts about events that I’ve attended that I feel make for good photographic opportunities.
At the end of June I attended another new (to me) Steampunk event, namely Blists Hill Steampunk Weekend. Blists Hill is often referred to as ‘The Town That Never Was’. Blists Hill is near Ironbridge and was reconstructed to illustrate what life in a Victorian town was like. Many of the buildings were moved from…
Always keen to try a different subject matter I decided to have a go at aviation photography by visiting the 2024 Sywell Airshow in late June. Sywell airshow used to happen every other year until the 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash when the decision was taken to cancel all future events. This was the first Sywell…
On Sunday 16th June 2024 I decided to visit the Bletchley Park 1940s Weekend. Just a 40 minute drive from my home, it’s somewhere I’ve never visited before. Famous as the home to the World War II codebreakers it’s perhaps no surprise that it’s a popular location to host a 1940s weekend. The location has…
Keen to try out some new Steampunk weekends I came across the Newark Steampunk Festival. I noticed that there was a pretty active Facebook group called The Newark Steampunk Society and someone I’ve met on other weekends who I follow on Instagram called Craig Jenkins indicated that it was an event worth attending. Newark Steampunk…
In an effort to attend more events in 2024, one of those that I have pencilled in my diary was the Melton Mowbray 1940s Weekend. Aimed at marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day it took place on May 11th and 12th. I managed to attend for a few hours on Saturday 11th May and the…
I’ve become a regular visitor to Whitby in recent years attending both the Whitby Steampunk Weekend but also the Whitby Goth Weekend. In April 2024 I was heading to the Yorkshire coast to Scarborough where I had accommodation booked for a Friday and Saturday night. I rarely stay in Whitby itself because the price of…
With the start of a new year I decided that I would try and get out more and attend more events in 2024. The first of these events that I pencilled in my diary was the Tenby Steampunk Festival which took place in March. It was the first time the event would take place so…
Back in October 2023 I attended another Whitby Goth Weekend. I’ve visited numerous times before and always found it a great event to obtain street portraits. October 2023 was no different with a good mix of regular attendees and some new faces attending for the first time. In this article I will only feature a…