News

Alex and I would like to announce to everyone that we will be running the North East Region of Going Digital from June! We will be running courses for beginners as well as more advanced photographers, teaching people the basics right through to the more advanced techniques. We will be also be covering Wildlife Photography teaching people the techniques to get stunning images of our wonderful wildlife.

This is a huge opportunity for Alex and myself which we are both excited about and have wanted to do for quite sometime and the time is finally here.


Here is a link to the current courses that you can book now, with a lot more to come…………

Going Digital North East

Myself & Alex will be announcing an exciting, major development in our Photographic careers in the coming days.....stay tuned!

Hi Everyone,

Myself and Alex have now created a Facebook page which you can "like", this way you can keep up to date with everything that is going on. All our Craft Fairs & Exhibitions, events, latest images and information on where we have been will be posted. Please come on over and like the page and show your support.

http://www.facebook.com/AlexIanMeekPhotography?ref=hl

Thanks

Ian & Alex

It's not quite 4 years since the start of my website but well over 700,000 hits to date! The rise in visitor numbers viewing my photographs, not just from the UK but from all corners of the world, is incredible and reaffirms my belief in my photography & how I see things and put simply...I must be doing something right!

Many thanks to everyone who has enjoyed viewing my galleries and for all the messages of support I receive. Hope you are enjoying the new Wildlife Gallery!

Keep watching and tell your friends...spread the word!

Just a reminder to everyone my 3rd Photographic Exhibition at Burton Agnes Hall kicks off on Sunday 19th Aug - Sunday 1st Sept, in the new 'Courtyard Gallery', Burton Agnes Hall, Driffield.

This year promises to be special as it features a whole new local Wildlife section with stunning Kingfisher, Owls & Puffin photographs taken by new Wildlife photographer Alex Meek, as well as a few of mine!

The car park is free and there is no entrance fee to the Courtyard & Shops or the Courtyard Gallery.

I am pleased to announce Alex Meek has joined me in our new venture into photographing local & British Wildlife. Alex will be the main wildlife photographer with me adding shots as and when I can as I will still be concentrating on my Land & Seascape images.

Alex previously worked as a sports photographer giving him the ideal skills to help him track moving animals & birds in flight. The new gallery is still a work in progress as we have only just start shooting wildlife this year, but hopefully there will be even more great shots to add to what is already becoming a fantastic new Wildlife Gallery!

Wildlife Gallery

My little corner at the Old Bath House, Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate.




I'm delighted to say I've been asked to stay on for a further 2 weeks at the Craft Fair at Harlow Carr Gardens. I am now exhibiting until 5th June so please pop in and view my photographs & prints and hopefully buy one, as well as see the wide variety of the other high qualiy crafters....it is well worth a visit!

Good news! Two of my images are to be used in St Catherines Hospice cancer charity calendar for 2013. The two images are Winter Colour & End of the Season for January & November respectively.

Winter Colour

End of the Season

It is for a very, very worthy cause so I will let you all know when it is on sale and you can buy one or two and make it a huge success!

Finally got round to posting some of my images on the RPS website! I will keep updating the portfolio on a regular basis with images from my website that I feel are suitable, hopefully it will generate even more interest in my work....have a look!

RPS Portfolio

I'm pleased to say the website of Discover Yorkshire Coast has used been using two of my images on its new tourism website! It's been up & running since earlier in the year at the start of the holiday season.

One of Scarborough Harbour and the other of the North Bay & Castle. Click on the link to view the home page and images.

DiscoverYorkshireCoast

The website & the images have been a real success with many pleasing & encouraging comments!

My 2011 Red Bus Gallery Exhibition, at Burton Agnes Hall, kicks off this Friday 22nd July for 2 weeks until the 4th August! This is my second year on The Red Bus and is turning into an annual event. This year I'm sharing the event with good friend & colleague - Wildlife photographer Steve Race who will add an extra dimension to the Exhibition and promises to be a great 2 weeks. Please lend your support & come and visit us both on the Red Bus....you will be very welcome!

I will be exhibiting my work at The Odonata Gallery in Otley from the 26th May 2011 through until mid-July. There will be a variety of framed prints, mounted prints and hopefully a few canvasses of new work on view & for sale. This is an exciting new showcase for my work, reaching a new audience and I'm really pleased that I've been asked to exhibit there. Hope you can get along to the Gallery to browse through my images.

I'm pleased to announce my latest exhibition has just got under way at Scarborough Hospital, 1st Floor, North Entrance. The Gallery is run by the Hospital Arts for North East Yorkshire, HAFNEY for short, and the display of my work runs from today the 29th March through until the 16th May 2011.




All the framed prints are for sale & can be purchased via my website or contact me by email at ian.meek@virgin.net.

If you are visiting the Hospital pop along and have a look at the exhibition and remember 50% of all sales will go to the new Childrens Ward Redevelopment!

Hope you can view the exhibition.

Ian

I've been invited to exhibit some of my work in a new local gallery at Picturesque in Scarborough. The new upstairs gallery is called 'Exhibit A' and for it's first exhibition my work, alongside other local photographers, will be on view throughout February. I'm really excited about this new gallery as it promises to be a fantastic showcase not just for photographers but for all budding, local artists and is a welcome addition to other exhibiting galleries.

The Open Evening is Monday 31st January 2011 from 6-8pm and the exhibition will run throughout February.

Hope to see you there!

I submitted a panel of 10 photographs that was up for assessment with the RPS at The Public, West Bromwich yesterday for a distinctions Licentateship.........and passed!

They commented I'd shown a very high degree of technical competency; bold & good use of colour; and what shone through was I obviously loved taking photographs!

As all the RPS council & President were there, which was very unusual, it was ratified the same day and I was presented with my certificate & badge by the President herself, which was really cool.

Many thanks to all those who have supported me over the past 2 years; it's been an amazing journey so far since I started in April 2008, and hopefully there is a lot more to come!



Now for my ARPS...and more exhibition work!

Ian Meek LRPS :)

Hi to everyone or should I say 'Howdy, Are you guys having a good day?'...friendliest people I've come across, really laid back but when you live there I can understand it!

Canada blew me away for so many different reasons, Vancouver is a real cool city; the National Parks have just the most amazing scenery; and Orcas have to be one of the cooooolest animals to see in the wild..awesome!

Over the next few weeks I'll be going through all my shots and putting them on my website, don't just expect the obvious I've gone for a more first impression and memories feel to some shots...hope you like them and keep watching the website, you can also follow me on Facebook now so keep dropping in.

View Canada Portfolio

Watching You, Watching Me, Watching You.


Pink'n'Blue in Downtown Vancouver

I will be visiting the Blue Canadian Rockies in the very near future on a photographic trip, though it's been heavily disguised as a celebration of our 25th Wedding Anniversary! (don't tell the missus).

I'm hoping to get some really good sunrise or sunset shots of the jaw-dropping scenery in and around the National Parks with emphasis on the Lakes Louise, Agnes, Moraine, Vermilion, and Maligne & Spirit Island. Not forgetting the City of Vancouver which will also throw up some great photo opprtunities.

Ever since I heard The Byrds singing "In the Blue Canadian Rockies...... on the banks of Lake Louise" from the album Sweetheart of the Rodeo back in 1968, I've always wondered and wanted to know what it would be like to stand there, take in the views & soak up the feeling of the place; I now have the chance to do just that, to be there and record my impressions & images of the banks of Lake Louise and the other lakes through the lens of my camera. Wow!

Just need to avoid the bears, especially BIG bears!

My first ever exhibition kicked off on 22nd July to a rather slow start but once the first weekend arrived it really got going! The sales and comments exceeded everything I had hoped for and I met so many new & friendly people and they have all been very kind & generous in the praise of my photographs and exhibition, as well as putting their hands in their pockets, it's been simply...mind blowing!

Any self-doubts about what I was doing and all those hours standing in my wellies in the North Sea in freezing conditions waiting for sunrises with people saying 'You must be mad', and 'Why are you taking that?' have gone with all the positive comments, a number of sales and reaching well over 166,000 hits to my website today!

I would just like to thank everybody who came to the Red Bus Gallery and who took the time to look at the photographs and the exhibition and gave me so many positive comments...........but a special thanks must go to a lovely girl called Sophie (part of the battle re-enactment group) who kept sitting & chatting to my wife & I on & off over the Battle Re-enactment weekend... she really made our weekend. Thanks Sophie...hope you like your surprise B&W photograph, I know you liked it....Happy 13th Birthday!

If you didn't make it I hope I'll see you at the next exhibition......... you don't know what you missed!

A couple of 'snapshots' of the exhibition on the Red Bus :)





...& a few comments from my visitors book :)






Thanks again to everyone who made it a great success!