If you read my blog a short while back, you’ll know that I went to photograph one of my all time guitar hero’s Tommy Emmanuel, but what I wasn’t prepared for was Gareth Pearson. This lad from Wales is an amazing guitar talent. From speaking to one of the road crew I understand that he’s just turned 18 and has only been playing for 4 years. Completely awesome, he has a very bright future ahead of him. If you love fingerstyle guitar, check him out, a natural talent in every sense of the term. I’ve just added some of the photo’s from the gig to my concert images website at: http://www.tonyholmes.com, I hope you like them.
Charlie Waite, one of the worlds leading landscape photography talents has launched Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition in conjunction with the AA and Light and Land Photography Tours. A snippet from the website says:
Take a view, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award, is the brainchild of Charlie Waite, one of today’s most respected landscape photographers. Together with AA Publishing, Britain’s largest travel publisher and a division of The Automobile Association, he has created this prestigious award.
With a total prize fund exceeding £20,000, plus a six-week exhibition at the National Theatre and the publication of a full colour book of Best Entries, Take a view is set to become a desirable annual competition for photographers of all ages for years to come. Britain’s heritage is celebrated by people around the world and entries are welcome from everyone, whether resident in Britain or simply visiting.
Now how cool is that. So if you’ve always wanted to be recognised for you landscape photography and never had the chance, don’t hide your light under a bush, take to the hills and enter the competition. You owe it to yourself.
Off to shoot a gig on December 11th, this time it’s Tommy Emmanuel. It’s really a strange coincidence that I’ve been asked to shoot one of my favourite all time acoustic fingerstyle guitarists. This guy truly is one of the best guitarists around today, not only that but he’s dedicated too, and tours relentlessly. Of course the the photo’s will be available on my concert images website, once I’ve finished post processing them. Watch this space 
From Tommy’s website:
In his storied career, Emmanuel has set sales records that have yet to be broken and performed with hundreds of musical legends including Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Sir George Martin, Hank Marvin, Joe Walsh, Stevie Wonder, Nokie Edwards (of the Ventures), Les Paul, Keith Urban, the Lexington (Kentucky) Philharmonic, the Dortmund (Germany) Symphony, and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra.
