Photography by James Kenning

In the Style of Rut Blees Luxemburg

2012-01-10T10:10:00.000-08:00

Last semester in Uni, I was given an assignment, which was to choose a photographer of my choice, adapt the style of that chosen photographer and apply it to my work. I choose to do Rut Blees Luxemburg as she has always been one of my favourite photographers and decided to go and look at urban landscapes around Swansea, Bristol and Birmingham. These are some of the images that I took!

Photomontages & Book Cover Designs

2011-12-02T22:52:00.000-08:00

This is just a bit more work that I did for another module in Uni this year. Basically, I had to combine a minimum of three of my own images too create a photomontage that could ultimately be used as a book cover. Some of these, I had a very clear idea about but I don't even know where two of the other designs came from. Hope you like them anyways!

Front Cover

Back Cover

Front Cover

Back Cover

Front Cover

Back Cover

And if you read the blurbs on the back of the book, I was writing to fill the page so it is likely not too make any sense at all.

Food Photography

2011-11-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

I haven't updated this in blog in a while but heres some recent work I did for my first assignment due in tomorrow. I had to do some photography in the style of a certain photographer so the photographer I chose to adapt the style of was David Loftus. So these are the images that I took.

24hr Spar, Swansea

2011-09-13T15:36:00.000-07:00

Went into Swansea earlier to try and get some night shots and ended up getting this by 24 hour Spar, luckily, the regular smack heads weren't about so I came home with all my camera equipment. Hope you like the photo anyways.

Playing With Fire

2011-09-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

Haven't done much night photography recently so thought as we had a fire in our back garden that I'd mess around with exposures, apertures and see what sort of shots I could get. These are some of the pictures that I got but another twelve photographs will be on my Flickr as soon as they let me log into my account. Happy with some of the pictures, so hope you like them!

Evening Post Work Experience

2011-08-26T07:53:00.000-07:00

Back in July, I managed to get a work placement in the South Wales Evening Post which covers Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea. Learnt a lot during my work experience to be fair and even managed to get one picture printed in the paper which was class. Hears some of the work that I did during my work experience.

Swansea Continental Market

On the last day of my work experience, I was asked to go out and find a story and if it was good enough quality to go in the paper, it would get printed. In fairness, it wasn't quite the sort of shot they were looking for (too much going on in background and too much space for press photography) but the main photo editor Steve said he'd let it go in on Monday's paper. So happy days, been published in the local paper!

Retiring Teacher At Cwmbwrla Primary School

On this shoot, I went out with one of the other photographers who worked for Evening Post as they were asked to get photographs of leaving Cymbwrla school as she was retiring. These were the two best images I got at this shoot.

Clyne Golf Club

This was a photograph taken at 'Clyne Golf Club' for their promotion on supporting our troops, offering them a free membership at their club.

Weight Loss, Dragon Hotel Gym

This photograph was taken at the gym in the bottom of the Dragon Hotel in Swansea. The story was about this girl pictured who lost 2st in their gym before going on holiday to Spain and this was the photograph I got of her.

Morriston Chapel Coin Story

This photo was taken at Morriston Chapel. The story was to do with a coin that they believed to be placed underneath the top of the steeple by a little girl back in the 18th century; while they're doing up the church, they're gonna check if the legends true and if a coin is really there (as far as I can remember).

U.A.E. Light Trails

2011-07-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd posted these back in January when I went out to U.A.E. for Christmas holidays but looks like I didn't; these photographs were taken in Abu Dhabi and the second one in Dubai so hope you like them. Bit old but haven't posted night for a while.

Victoria Park, Swansea

2011-07-19T07:59:00.000-07:00

I thought that I had already uploaded these images to the blog but I haven't so thought I would stick them up now. Haven't had a chance to do much recently with getting house and work experience but should have some more up soon. Hope you like these ones anyways.

Millenium Point, Birmingham

2011-07-19T07:57:00.001-07:00

Bakewell, Sheffield

2011-06-24T05:38:00.000-07:00

Went up to Bakewell, Sheffield a few weeks ago with mates from Uni, few of them live there. Went to check out the country bits and got a few shots on the cliffs up there as well as at a bridge jump into the river running through. Class trip, hope you like the pictures!

Aston Villa Protest

2011-06-15T12:49:00.000-07:00

Went to Villa Park today to photograph the protests about the possibility of former Birmingham manager, Alex McLeish, getting the managerial job at Aston Villa. Many quality chants were sung which I'm sure will ring around the stadium next season if his appointment is confirmed in the next few days (as is heavily suggested by Sky Sports and BBC).

Anyway, these are some of my images from the protest. I have got another 100+ photographs which I will put on my flickr account by tomorrow. Hope you like them!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkenning1990

Environmental Portraits: Birmingham Market

2011-06-13T04:13:00.000-07:00

Long time no upload so thought I would add some of the photography that I took at the market the other day for a photography project. I had to take some environmental portraits so I thought I would contrast the variety of people who sell what they sell in the markets, hope you like them!

Skateboarding: Constitution Hill, Swansea

2011-05-07T06:11:00.000-07:00

I was supposed to put these up ages ago and only realised today that they weren't on the blogspot. Hope you like them, these two were taken over the Easter holidays in Mount Pleasant, Swansea.

Sam Austin Ollie Consta Bollards

Skateboarding Emersons Green Skatepark, Bristol

2011-05-06T10:41:00.000-07:00

A few of us from Swansea recently travelled up to Bristol to skateboard in the background of a 'Casualty' set for BBC and got paid nicely for that! After that, we hit up a new skatepark just outside Bristol called Emersons Green and managed to get these shots of my mates skating. Bangin' day! Hope you like the photographs.

Jamie Hudson BS Tailslide

Jamie Hudson BS Feeble

Hasan Kamil Krooked

Boyo Flip Backlip

Whitebrook, Monmouth

2011-05-01T04:07:00.000-07:00

Went up to my grandparents in Monmouth for Easter the other week and got some photographs down by the river that flows through Whitebrook at my Auntie's house; bit of a change from the recent black and white photography posts so hope you like them.

Mozarts: Gas Station Bop 16/04/11

2011-04-23T10:44:00.000-07:00

These are the photographs I took the other night at 'The Gas Station Bop' in 'Mozarts', Swansea. It's a 50's/60's night run monthly and is always a good laugh. These are just a few of the photographs that I prefer which were taken on the night.

Jack Kirtley Art Work

2011-04-17T18:35:00.000-07:00

This is also an old photograph also, but is worth putting up for the reason that Kirtley got shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Awards so well done son. Check some of his stuff out at: http://jackkirtley.wordpress.com/

Westcross Ramp (Skater Marc Thomas)

2011-04-17T16:55:00.000-07:00

As I've been back in Swansea quite a bit recently (as it's Easter and that), I've been getting quite a few photos down this way sorted. Will put new photographs up soon but thought I'd stick these two up for now as I recently found them again on the old hard drive.

I have also updated the 'Old Photography' page (which is where I should have stuck these but never mind) so check them out if you would as well. Thanks!

Birmingham Train Tracks

2011-04-01T10:43:00.001-07:00

As the last three posts were photographs taken at night (and two of those posts were in the same place), I thought I'd stick this up as well for bit of variety. It was taken down by the train tracks in Birmingham at sunset.

Bit More Burningham

2011-04-01T10:29:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd put up a few more photographs from "Burningham" from the other night. Found out that it is some sort of multicultural project (I think) and they occasionally hold events like this, with a free hog roast, to gather a mixed community. They also built football posts and it's right opposite my halls; basically, a win win situation to be fair. Anyway, hope you like them.

(The next photographs I put on the blog WON'T be night photographs, just realised I've been rinsing them as of late so will get a bit more variety on the blog soon).

Burningham

2011-03-22T17:43:00.000-07:00

I didn't expect people to be living in this container but not too sure if they were too happy with me taking pictures of their house but never mind. Anyway, these are the photos that I got from tonight, didn't manage to go further into Digbeth but might do that tomorrow night so I don't spend all my money going out on the steam. Hope you like them.

Construction Site Photography

2011-03-13T16:51:00.000-07:00

Haven't uploaded any images in a while because I've had (and still have) a lot of Uni work to do. But we managed to see what the construction site looked like from the inside the other night and I got these four images that are decent enough to stick up on the blog. Not my best photography to be fair but it's all good.

Photography Assignment 02

2011-02-10T09:45:00.000-08:00

For this assignment, I had to create a photography essay and decided to document my brothers while I was in Abu Dhabi and show their reactions to certain sites. Although these images won't tell the story I had to try and tell for my project, it's a selection of some of the images I used. Nice one.

A Bit More Abu Dhabi Photography

2011-01-20T06:28:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted in ages because had loads of uni work to do and all that so thought I'd post up the last few photographs from Abu Dhabi. The first three are of the Grand Mosque which is the biggest (I think) Mosque in UAE. And the other three are photos of the city centre in Abu Dhabi so hope you like them. Tidy.

Dubai: Part 02

2011-01-06T06:35:00.000-08:00

As we stayed for a night in Dubai, I managed to get decent shots of my little bro's on the balcony of the hotel we stayed at. These are the two best ones in my opinion so hope you like them.

Dubai: Part 01

2011-01-02T01:49:00.000-08:00

We went to Dubai a couple of days ago to see the Burj (worlds tallest building) and chill in a quality city basically. They've got some mad things to see and these are some of the photographs that I got while I was there. I'll post the daytime photography separately to not overdo it so hope you like them.

Al Ain Zoo

2010-12-31T06:57:00.000-08:00

Went to checkout Al Ain the other day and ended up popping into the zoo in that area; so I ended up getting some good shots of some of the animals and my younger brothers although the best ones were only of giraffes. Hope you like them!

Emirates Palace Hotel

2010-12-27T07:19:00.000-08:00

Don't know if any of you would have heard about this in the UK but Abu Dhabi put up the worlds most expensive Christmas tree in the Emirates hotel. It's decorated with expensive jewels, gold etc and is basically a reminder that they're doing alright in this recession (I guess).

Dibba, Fajairah & Somewhere in Oman

2010-12-22T07:50:00.000-08:00

Some new photos that were taken from Fajairah in UAE and a bit of photography from Oman as we popped into there for a bit as well. Quality weekend, boiling and went in the Indian Ocean for a dip as well. Good times!

The Mountain Range In Fajairah

Jacob and Liam Looking At the People Fishing In Oman

Mad 'Ed On A Boat (They Were Blippin' It)

And a Game of Ping Pong at the Hotel

Also found a camel racing channel which I thought was flat out quality. Apparently they use to race the camels with children on their back but as that became illegal, they now do it with robots with fake whips and all that. The jeeps in the background control the robots; flat out amazing! And they can't even gamble on the camels as it's illegal so who knows what the point of this is.

Abu Dhabi

2010-12-17T19:33:00.000-08:00

Arrived in Abu Dhabi the other day for the Christmas holidays. It's basically hotter than a British summer at the moment here so I'll probably come back with a nice sun burn and all that. This the first half decent shot I took but I'll be getting some better pictures soon no doubt, off to Fujairah today and maybe Oman tomorrow as well. Tidy.

University Work

2010-11-24T17:59:00.000-08:00

These are some of my photographs from one of my 'Directed Studies' for photography where I had to try and vary my images and focus on different areas in the image. It didn't work as well as hoped because my lenses aperture don't vary much but here are some of the images I took anyways.

Some Old Macro Shots

2010-11-19T06:59:00.000-08:00

Found these two photos the other day which were taken with my old bridge camera. Might as well put them on the blogspot as I haven't put much on it recently.

Birmingham Night Photography

2010-11-02T14:17:00.000-07:00

Alright, these are just a few photos I took the other night because I was going to do night photography for my uni work; but I read the title wrong and these were the only half decent images I got from the two hour session in some sketchy area in Birmingham. Didn't get my stuff robbed though so happy days! Enjoy.

Barcelona 2010

2010-11-01T12:13:00.000-07:00

The images below are the selection of images that I've taken and edited for my first photography assignment in university. Feel free to leave a comment whether you like them, dislike them or have suggestions. Cheers pal!