Royal Academy Summer Exhibition “City of Dreams”

Very pleased to have been selected to feature at the 2015 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. A classic art exhibition in the heart of London in it’s 238th year and only recently allowing photography.

I have to admit that whilst I have found many great ideas and inspirations from the RA over the years, I have tended to look at some of the images and think … “I could do better”. So, rather than just leave it at that, I thought I should better test myself to see if I could do better. For the last 4 years I have submitted a range of images from Hockney-esque abstracts, dramatic black and white and colourful scenery. This year, my “City of Dreams” image seems to have captured something in the imagination of the judges and I survived the many rounds of judging to whittle the submissions down from 10’s of thousands to just over 1,000.

The title is one that I hope evokes a range of ideas for people as they look at the city-scape emerging from the evening haze. When I describe this as being an evening shot of West Hollywood in California, a city notorious for people with big dreams, I think that there is another perspective you can take on it.

Many thanks to the team at Bayeux for the help with printing and mounting , this is a 40″x 30″ metallic print mounted on aluminium sheet and they have the process down to a tee. Thanks Terry.

City of Dreams

For the photographers our there who will be curious as to the details … Canon EOS40D, Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8 L series, ISO 200, 1/1250 at f8.0. Other than basic processing, no image manipulation at all here (not even a random aeroplane to airbrush !)

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