Dark Side Of The Lens

Dark Side Of The Lens is a stunning short film on surf photographer Mickey Smith, not many people know about surf photographers. This gives us a glance into his perspective as he ventures out into freezing Celtic waters in the wilderness of the West Coast of Ireland.

"For everything that brought us to that point on earth and that moment in time. To do something worth remembering with a photograph or a scar"

The music and poetry was created by Mickey himself, it encapsulates himself and what he does down to a tee.

"I wanted a song where the vocals were part of the music, building underneath the images, the instruments fighting with the words."

Allan Wilson was the Director of Photography.

For a behind the scenes interview with Mickey Smith at Huck Magazine click here.

A film by Ashtray Films and winner of The Relentless Short Stories Competition.

F F F Flickr

Finally got my Flickr up and running, check it...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patbethell/

Been messing around with blending on photoshop recently...

Really simple to do, right here

"It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead." -William Markiewicz

Group Project

Here is Myself, Rachel and Chloe's short film for CMP.

Tamakai and Ricky Poole: Road to the 02

Tamakai Featurette from Rachel Sowden on Vimeo.

Melise Djemal

My friend singer/songwriter Melise, put in two scoops of Laura Marling and a pinch of Corrinne Bailey Rae.

A national day out

Today I visited londres on a shoestring with the better half...cue the national portrait gallery and the national history museum.

Plenty of wild stuffed beasts afoot combined with some incredible paintings!

Unknown to me the BP Portrait Award was taking place, it's know to host some of the best portraits in the world and I was not left disappointed.

Here was my favourite by Eliot Haigh

The artist painted his photographer friend, flipping the viewpoint...

‘She is a photographer thus always looking at other people, but I wanted to reverse that process and observe her.'

This picture reflects a quiet moment of contemplation, I think it's apt as photographers are constantly thinking about their craft most of the time and pushing for that next shot