Give me a "W"

Having shot some quite successful "W" shots in the past I could not resist to pull a stop when I saw my second favourite wheat field combined with this phenomenal good looking sky.


Earlier versions of "Whisky" have been published in magazines and are currently on public view in the Lyth Arts Center. Go on, treat yourself to a great exhibition of local artists work and some yummy cakes!

Dig it!

What a colour orange is in this dramatic evening light. I caught this one on the way home from the beach, lighting up like a christmas tree in the beautiful light. Despite it was still raining, I caught it well.

My first book

NORTH

By Martina Cross

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I am well proud that I just published my first book with some of my favourite black and white photos. Please go and check it out by clicking on the above badge. You never know... you might like it so much that you want to buy it :-)

Evening wanders...

The last few evenings produced some fantastic light and thanks to our dogs, there was no excuse to stay at home and sit on the couch. The empty Caithness beaches are superb to wander round and get some great shots done...

And then there...

will be light!

I just had the funny urge to compose something in PS today, oh boy, I can`t wait until I get my Intuos 3 next week. Then the fun really begins!

SWPP Gold awards July 2008

Yet I got some more thrilling results in this international photo competition. I managed to get 2 more Gold awards this month, one in the Monochrome and one in the Landscape category.

About 225 pictures were entered in those two sections and only 7 got the highly wanted "Gold", which is going forward to the annual judging to find the best photo of those categories.

To be honest, I am over the moon as I had the feeling that none of my photos would get a gold this month... and to bag two then... I am truly happy!

I felt that the judging was quite strict, yet again, but thats exactely how I would expect it to be in an international competition. There were many strong images that got "Silver" but only the very strong ones got the "Gold".

This month I had little time again as we were going on Holiday at the beginning of the month so I only entered 5 images which 2 got gold, 2 silver and one bronze.

About 2000 images were entered alltogether and only 52 got "Gold".

Here are my 2 winners, first the Landscape, then the Monchrome gold.

The Royal Handshake

Yesterday I was invited to a presentation at the Castle of Mey, where Prince Charles spends his Summer Holidays.

The Architect Andrew PK Wright OBE has written the "Caithness Redundant Buildings Inventory" for the North Highland Initiative, one of the Prince`s charities, which was presented to Prince Charles yesterday.

Chris Gregory, a fellow photographer friend and myself had the delightful job of photographing old and redundant buildings for the presentation panel. Chris and I had 4 large photos choosen by Andrew to represent the main 8 categories of the panel.

After Prince Charles has had a chat to different people in the room it was our turn to meet HRH. I was kind of nervous as it was my turn to recieve the royal handshake, but it turned out to be a very casual conversation and there would have been no need to be nervous at all. Phew!

Mymy, I would have never thought that my work would be complimented by Royalty one day...

Photography Monthly Magazine August 2008

I also have 4 pictures published in this month Photography Monthly Magazin again. It`s always a pleasure to work with you folks!

My photos were choosen to represent 4 of the top 100 photo location in the UK. See the 4 spots here...

Digital Camera Magazine August 2008

I am delighted to find a two page spread in the August issue of Digital Camera Magazine. I was hoping that they would print at least one of my pictures in the Hotshots department, but to see three of my photos printed is a very welcome surprise!

I have had quite a few emails of people responding to this article telling me that they really like my style. Ah, nice to know....