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As I reported earlier this week, Dunbar will host the second annual Street Art Trail on Saturday 20 August and this year MacLean Photographic has been asked to display some images on the High Street. I've spent the last few days building a frame to display the 11 images I have selected to be shown to the public this weekend and also produce an A3 sheet with a bit of information about MacLean Photographic. Choosing the images to go into the display was a difficult one, as was choosing the size of image to show each picture off at its best. In the end I chose four images to be printed to A1, one at 18" x 12", 4 at 15" x 10" and two square 12" x 12" prints. The display was finished off with two Fujifilm X20 cameras that were reskinned in blue and green by Fujifilm UK and are a colourful final touch.  All of the images featured were shot on Fujifilm X Series cameras over the past 18 months in and around East Lothian. The display in Lloyds Pha...

Most of the time as a landscape photographer I have to plan my trips carefully, always keeping one eye on the weather forecast to try and optimise my chances of coming back with a few 'keepers'.  Other times I can just get lucky and these images are one of those occasions. The shots were actually taken last September when I was testing the 1.4x converter for Fujifilm along with fellow X Photographer Dirk Bogaerts from Belgium, who was doing a round Scotland trip in his MGB for his new magazine Carburettor .   I had taken a series of shots for the test and these were taken just as the clouds parted to produce this stunning light display over Edinburgh Castle.  I filed the images for processing later and completely forgot about them until yesterday due to other work commitments.  As I said the images were shot on the XF50-140mm f2.8 fitted with the 1.4x converter fitted to the X-T1.  We were standing on Calton Hill looking west towards the castle when t...

As a photographer I usually see my images displayed online or projected onto a wall.  I also do see my pictures used in a book, like the recent launch of the 2016 X-Photographers Book or in magazines like the feature in Scottish Field magazine. However I get the biggest kick seeing my images printed and displayed on a wall or hung in a gallery.  Last week I saw one of my images displayed in Fujifilm HQ in Tokyo for the 5th Anniversary of the X-Series display .   Yesterday six of my images were placed in the front window of Bass Rock Gallery and Framing here in Dunbar and I will have further images displayed inside the gallery in the coming weeks.  These, of course, will be on sale to the public. I have already seen people looking and commenting on the images in the window when I visited the gallery on Saturday morning and I hope that some will like them enough to buy one. However it certainly is a great opportunity for a bit of PR and getting my wo...