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Nova Photography

Just a quick plug for my new venture - Nova Photography. Andy Newson and I have been working on Nova Gallery for 18 months now and have shot a number of wedding together. We have now decided to team up full time offering a range of photographic services including photography training, commercial photography and wedding photography.

© All Rights Reserved - Andrew Newson - Nova Photography

© All Rights Reserved - Andrew Newson - Nova Photography

© All Rights Reserved - Andrew Newson - Nova Photography

Our new website went 'live' last week. Putting the business together has entailed a great deal of hard work, but it's well worth it in order to earn a living doing something we love.

We are based in Eridge, just south of Tunbridge Wells on the Kent & Sussex border. We welcome visitors, so please feel free to drop in for some photography chat!

www.novaphotography.co.uk

Fred

Today I discovered Spitalfields Life - an interesting blog in its own right, but particularly interesting to me because of my connection with the area.

While browsing, I discovered a piece on Fred the chestnut seller and immediately recognised him from a photo I took nearly five years ago:

He seems to have aged pretty gracefully.

I wonder just how many photos Fred appears in? Most people live their lives reasonably anonymously, but someone like Fred, who works in public in a relatively busy and somewhat touristy spot, must be the subject of holiday snaps in albums and dusty draws the world over. Does this equate to fame? Perhaps a strange kind of fame where both the famous individual, and the people who take the photos, are not particularly conscious of its existence.

La Pura Vida - August, 2010 Show #3 – “I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine”

I discovered this week that the photo above - taken at Rye Harbour - was included in the La Pura Vida August 2010 group show. There are some excellent photos in the show and it is always encouraging that somone (in this case James Hendrick) felt the image was worthy of inclusion.

La Pura Vida - August, 2010 Show #3 – “I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine”.