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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...

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...

How many of us take pictures but never go further than downloading them to a computer to view on a LCD screen?  I have terrabytes of hard drive space dedicated to the images I have taken over the years.  Most of these pictures are displayed online on Facebook, Flickr, 500px or on the MacLean Photographic website , but I also choose my some of best images to print, or display in a photobook. I am proud of the work I produce and I find there is nothing better than seeing one of these shots as a large image on the wall. The picture of Mull opposite my desk in my office This week I took delivery of the three latest canvas prints from Nottinghamshire based firm Grangeprint  - a 16" x 12" print of the Pont des Arts, and two panoramic canvas prints of Belvoir Castle and Elgol on the Isle of Skye.  I have put them on the walls around the house so I can remind myself of the places I've been.   My favourite image is a 30" x 12 " framed panoramic print of th...