Personal project related posts

A list of the most recent personal project related articles - if you looking for my personal projects portfolio please follow the link

How I help businesses in other parts of the world - a UK based photographer explains a little about this microfinancing website

Lend With Care

I've been using Lend With Care for a while - it is a microfinance lending website from CARE International UK. It allows individuals and groups to make small loans to entrepreneurs in low-income countries, helping them improve their lives through business

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: finance, charity, investment,

Published on Mon Mar 3, 2025

Liverpool photographer David J Colbran exhibits a personal project

Personal project "Everyone is Moving - Your Journeys, Your Neighbourhoods"

A series of pictures in and around Wavertree Sports Park. A little personal project from earlier in the year.

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Personal
Tags: personal, project, open, space, parks, recreation, mental, health, wellbeing

Published on Wed Oct 2, 2024

Liverpool photographer documents the abandoned Copperas Hill postal sorting office in Liverpool in 2012 prior to demolition.

Urban archaeology at Copperas Hill

Personal project from 2012 looking at the abandoned Copperas Hill postal sorting office prior to its demolition. #throwbackthursday

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Architecture, Personal
Tags: personal, project, copperashill

Published on Thu Jun 13, 2024

Liverpool photographer David J Colbran at the start of a personal project investigating colours and reflections.

Colour reflection experiments

Inspired by some recent colour and reflection experiments when on a holiday in Newcastle, I've had a delve back through my archive and found some nice image contrasts.

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: personal, project, colours, colour, reflection, relfections

Published on Tue May 7, 2024

Liverpool photographer looks at Balloons, Chargers, Hippy Crack, Nos, Noz, Whippits, Nang usage in the UK in 2022

Laughing gas cannisters at music festivals - litter, waste and environmental damage

Some images from Glastonbury and beyond. With some thoughts about health impacts and environmental factors

Categories: Photography, Music, Personal
Tags: environment, festivals, waste

Published on Mon Sep 12, 2022

David J Colbran gives a summary of recent photography work at the beginning of 2022 and signals a return to business as normal for photographic commissions.

Liverpool photographer has a busy start to the year

A quick summary of recent photography work at the beginning of 2022, which hopefully signals a return to business as normal for photographic commissions on Merseyside.

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Events, People, Music, Personal
Tags: art, project, personal, business, commercial

Published on Wed Mar 2, 2022

Liverpool photographer David J Colbran features in a digital festival with his pandemic art work and project.

Presentation at Digifest 2021 Festival, Durban, South Africa

A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to be asked to present and exhibit some of my artworks at the Unmasked Digifest and annual research conference 2021, based in Durban, South Africa

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: presentation, personal, project

Published on Thu Nov 4, 2021

Liverpool photographer David reflects on a art project completed in 2020

Postcards from us x

Last year during lockdown I joined an online art class called Postcards from us x, we made some postcards and they were displayed at the Open Eye Gallery

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: art, project, personal, OpenEye, exhibition,

Published on Thu Jul 8, 2021

David is one of the Liverpool photographers undertaking documentary photography projects - this looks at energy sites and wildlife implications.

Photo project around energy sites

A few years ago I started a project about energy sites and power stations in the UK, examining the boundaries of these sites and impact either side on the natural environment.

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: personal, landscape, project

Published on Wed Feb 24, 2021

Liverpool photographer reviews photography in 2020

Photographers Review of 2020

2020 has been a year we will never forget but I have renewed hope that the future will be stronger than ever for me and my business.

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Press, Events, People, Architecture, Music, Personal
Tags: review, 2020

Published on Wed Jan 13, 2021

Liverpool photographer David J Colbran ongoing project photographing leaves with a macro lens and making leaf skeletons project

Leaf skeleton art

Finding leaf skeletons in the woods out and about is fairly rare. I have a couple but thought I'd have a go and making some of my own.

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: art, project, personal, leaf, leaves, skeleton

Published on Mon Nov 9, 2020

Fine art photography prints for sale in black and white and colour by Liverpool photographer David J Colbran

Fine Art photography prints for sale

I am excited to announce that you can now buy Fine Art Photography Prints in my online shop. I've sold a few limited editions in the past to clients and friends and now open this up to everyone.

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: art, project, prints,

Published on Wed Sep 23, 2020

A professional photographer details what he has been up to during lock down - personal project digitising old images

Personal project - scanning 35mm slides

I've just started a personal project that I have been meaning to for years. Digitising and scanning a massive box of old 35mm slides that I inherited from my late mother.

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: personal, scanning, scans, film, slides, 35mm

Published on Wed May 27, 2020

Pro Liverpool photographer documents the empty city centre streets on a bright sunny day in April 2020

Empty streets of Liverpool under lock down

I spent a few hours wandering the streets of Liverpool the other, documenting our strange times ...

Categories: Photography, Liverpool, Personal
Tags: street, personal, documentary, coronavirus, covid-19

Published on Wed Apr 15, 2020

First in a series of random images from the mean streets of the UK - starting in that there London. Images by Liverpool based pro photographer David J Colbran

Random Street Photography

First in a series of random images from the mean streets of the UK - starting in that there London

Categories: Photography, Personal
Tags: street, personal, London

Published on Thu Apr 2, 2020

Liverpool professional photographer David asks what is next during this health crisis

What next ???

Work for a freelance photographer is never easy and in recent days has got much tougher ...

Categories: Photography, People, Personal
Tags: business, portraits, headshots, actor, corporate, headshot, mobile, studio

Published on Tue Mar 24, 2020