Not For Squares

As you know, we had our Coulson Macleod art­work pho­to­graphed pro­fes­sion­ally last Tues­day. We hired a pretty little chapel and a com­mer­cial pho­to­grapher. We had piles of props, some of which are ours, some we bor­rowed, and some we bought just for the occa­sion. And here are a couple of the shots taken…

We’ve got 174 shots to work through. As you can see from the bot­tom photo, some of the shots need crop­ping (we obvi­ously don’t want to see wall sock­ets in the final image). But we love the over­all feel. We were lucky with the light that day too, which flooded through the chapel win­dows and meant that most of the shots were taken without need­ing arti­fi­cial light.

Can’t wait to put them on our new-look web­site. In fact we can’t wait to show-off our new website.

So if you’re from a magazine and fancy fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod art, then we have plenty of high-res images to send you.

The Coulson Macleod photo shoot is all booked for next Tues­day and we’re get­ting very excited at the pro­spect of see­ing our art­work prop­erly staged and photographed.

We’ve hired the pret­ti­est vil­lage chapel that is cur­rently lying empty and makes the per­fect stu­dio. Plain white walls. Wooden floor boards. Beamed ceil­ing. And out of the little gothic arched win­dows you can see lambs frol­ick­ing in the adja­cent field. A pro­fes­sional com­mer­cial pho­to­grapher is booked. And we’ve been assem­bling our props. We’ve got piles of lovely things, but we were short of one prop, an antique floor-standing light.

Until we came across this beauty, which got delivered this morning…

It’s an antique brass search light from an old ship. It used to be gas-powered, but has now been fit­ted with a light­bulb and moun­ted on an antique wooden tri­pod so it can be used as a floor-standing light. Don’t know much more about it to be hon­est, but we fell in love as soon as we saw it, which is really all that matters.