Just a sneak preview of my new project, Hidden Views. More in a few days.

Brett Trafford photography is happy to join this historic market town in a week-long feast of fun for all ages! From crafts, art, workshops, demonstrations and concerts, Something for everyone! read more

A couple of images from a shoot last week.

I had not realised I had not posted on here for so long, but i have been very busy working on an exhibition and photography course and a web site (a new side line). So just to fill a gap here is a shot taken last week while I was up in the Lake District, it was taken on the other reason I’ve not blogged much, my new Nikon D7000.

Finally got around to sorting out a sales site for the pictures, now all I need to do is up load and sort 1,000+ images.

Other work in progress is a 5 week photography course, this is due to start in February and although the bulk of it is already written I will find my next few weeks very busy rewriting bits and compiling the photographs.

For the last bit of work in progress look at the image below, an attempt at a change in style, trying to bring more darkness in to my images.

A grab shot at a christening I was photographing at on Sunday.

Well after ticking over for 2 years this blog finally gets to be put to it’s intended use. The photography business is now full time so this blog will be used to up date the world on what is going on, or at least the things I can talk about. I will also try to link it to Facebook to make its as interactive as possible.

So the first item of news is that the business web site, Brett Trafford.com has had an update, the site is an on going project and the last changes finish stage 1 (i.e. all the pages now have something on them). The next stage is a page dedicated to my corporate customers and also an on-line check out, once I’ve decided on who to use. read more

No matter who you are or what level you take photos at, you will find that you always take better photo of a particular subject than anything else. If you take lots of photos and try to photograph different things this stands out more quickly than if you only take a few shots a year and mostly of the same type. My unknown speciality only came to light when shooting photos for my blog, I noticed that I tended to do better shots when shooting water with loads of reflection in it. So identifying what you do best is just a matter of looking at all your photos and seeing what looks the best and then seeing if there is a link. read more

Some times fate forces your hand and this is one of the prime examples, as I mentioned earlier I have had some problems with my web site host and now because of their change in policy I have had to rethink my whole web strategy. For nearly a year I have been unhappy with my main web site but have been unable, because of time or fitness, to do anything about it, but now I have had to make the changes that have been in mind for so long. So meet the new site,

So what’s new, well the layout is all new and is based on my excellent business cards designed exclusively for me by Trevor Bass. The navigation is always on screen so hoping around the site should be a lot faster. The links at the moment are quite limited as I have had to do all of this in quite a rush and am not really a web site designer, but it is built so I can add to it very easily. The sales link goes straight to my Red bubble site and gives you the chance to buy the images in a number of formats and preview what they look like on screen. read more

The saying goes that “There’s a book inside all of us”, well here is a chance to let your book out. The wonderful people over at Blurb have given me 3 vouchers worth £30 off a Blurb book and to be in with a chance at winning all you need to do is pop over to my other blog 365 to 42 and follow the instructions.