My 2026 Calendar is now available via my shop at Love From The Artist. The calendars are sustainably printed on FSC standard papers to order and come without celophane wrappers as standard to reduce plastic waste. They are available in two sizes, 210mm square at £12 each and 297mm square at £16 each, plus postage … More 2026 Calendar
I’m excited to share that yesterday I discovered my Water Lilies photographic portfolio has been awarded a gold medal at the RHS Botanical Art & Photography show. The show is being held at the Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London and is free to enter this year, so do visit if you’re nearby. It’s an honour … More Water Lilies wins RHS Gold medal
I haven’t written much for a while and hope over the winter months I’ll find the time to share some more imagery, musings and words about the techniques I use. I did want to catch up quickly though to share that I’ve created a 2025 calendar which is available here, and through the links in … More 2025 Calendar
I am now offering many of my images as fine art prints my shop at Fine Art America. Up until now only a selection of botanical work was available but I have expanded the collections to include woodland and tree images. If you would like to browse the prints on offer then please do follow … More Prints
How I create my images of gulls in flight It’s been a while since I wrote a post about techniques, so I’m going to share one about one of my favourite techniques, intentional camera movement. I’ve been taking hand held ICM pictures of the gulls in flight over the river Stour in Blandford Forum for … More Photographing birds in flight
My first project of 2021 is a small collection of images from my beloved local woodlands in yellows, oranges, gold and blue. Some images are new, others are composed of older images to which I have layered and added textures and gold leaf. The woods I have wandered in to take these images sit on … More Woodlands in Yellow & Blue
I’ve created a second calendar this year featuring landscapes, waterscapes and flocks of birds. These imagined landscapes are created from images taken in the woods and fields local to my village home in the Winterborne Valley of north Dorset. Calendars are 210mm square. The cover is printed on 250gsm Silk paper and the pages are … More 2021 Imagined Landscapes Calendar
November finds us in another lockdown and the weather is wet and dull outside, so to cheer myself up I’ve been losing myself in photo editing. I’d taken a few images of water lilies in the last few weeks and they’ve formed the basis of this series. I love the shapes of the lily leaves, … More Water lilies
I began this series of images in January, after visiting a starling murmuration at Blashford Lakes in Hampshire. It is created using multiple exposures, often combining ICM photography with static images. I started by combining images of the wetland habitat with images of the birds, but then the project expanded and I included textures, details … More Murmuration
This morning whilst walking in the woods looking for porcelain fungi, my attention was drawn to a spider web in the branches of a veteran beech tree. Shooting hand held into the light with a macro lens I captured these images.
Jo Stephen Photography 