Perrylane Blog

This is an Art blog as much as a photography gallery. The above piece was created for a book named Liquid Dreams by an America author that I have had the pleasure of working with in the past. This project is on hold at the moment as far as I know. The other project is Un Dia Sin Ti a Spanish poetry book you can check out the artwork on a flash enabled device on http://perrylane.org   The next piece is named Mystery of the pyramids and was painted in oils around 2005 for a good friend as a house warming present.   The last is a painting I did for a girlfriend now an ex - girlfriend, actually it was starting to look good only needing a glaze or two more of white for highlights - originally the image came from one of my photographs - pity I never put the finishing touches to it but a painting is never finished just abandoned.  My paining and drawing is mainly on request and usually I make them as presents not for money. Photography is becoming my main creative outlet but n

Here are three images I am entering in a local camera club competition , the first 2 are abstract category and the last is in open submissions. I find club competitions very useful for building a personal library of images and of course thinking and discussing work. The internet would be my main inspiration though it becomes so easy these days to experiences others work - whether on a phone or a television or a desktop .             The last image is a focus stack of 2 images hand held with cokin filters graduated for sky. I was told at the club  that all landscape need to be  shot on a tripod, well maybe not ! Rules as always to be taken with a pinch of salt but followed for good practice.            If I were to look at an area in which I would like to develop my creativity it would be in content and meaning and its communication - pictures for the sake of beauty I like but I also have something to say and at the moment a lot of my work does not reflect this, time

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/the_rose_of_tralee_2011_poster-228368647180090556 Prints available  copyright 2011 Paul Woods If  Tralee check out the Babytag gallery  open during the rose of Tralee international festival at the top of barrack lane near the Abbygate hotel and Roundys bar !

All images copyright Paul Woods 2011

Being one of the few people in the world to never use a film camera - apart from the disposable ones and an advantix ( I really started my photography with a digital back in 2001). May 2011 I picked up an old eos500 35mm film camera and have coupled it with a 50mm 1.2f - this works like a dream, I miss the multiple auto focus points of my 1d though but 35mm is full frame ! I picked up some out of date 200 asa Kodak colour plus and shot with it - I am absolutely over the moon with the results ! I love the lack of contrast in the scans and the actual film surface - and bits of dust between the glass and the negatives. It is all so tactile compared to the ultra clean digital .

Name : Paul Woods Working mainly in photography currently having exhibited in New York's world cultural centre in a group show submitting images through the internet entitled "Poppies". Also working in illustration , a collaborative project in America again with a Spanish/English speaking poet, again submitted images digitally while keeping the originals and having a first solo show in Listowel St. Johns arts centre. Working in digital collage and later drawing with black ball point pen. Woods is of the belief if Leonardo Da Vinci was around he would draw with a bic pen and while in Italy a couple of years ago he walked into a shop and asked for a pen and received a bic – this made him smile. Also working in digital media film and animation and audio visual web based media, he has been working on a stereo 3d short animation for a number of years written and directed by himself. He sees his work going in many directions but always involving computers even though s