Simon Weatherley & Hedley Basford
Simon has been a photographer for over 30 years. He has a keen eye for the subject, the location and the shot. He missed his best ever shot when he dropped his camera whilst swimming with Leopard and Bonnet nosed sharks in Florida. His swimming has not stopped and he swims daily 12 months of the year with the Kingsdown Dream Team open water swimmers!
Hedley has been taking photographs since the age of nine. When 12 years old he narrowly avoided setting fire to the house when he made an impromptu flash gun using a cake baking tin into which he placed a strip of magnesium ribbon that, in those days, a child could buy from the local chemist for a few pence! A wooden spoon made the handle. The result produced a brilliant white light that lasted rather longer than anticipated...!
Hedley holds the Licentiate distinction awarded by The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain - LRPS. He is also a bellringer at Canterbury Cathedral.
What makes our images different
Images are produced by taking multiple photographs at different exposures, merging them together and then applying layers of varying types of adjustment to achieve the finished result.
The photographs are taken in what is known as RAW format. The RAW format gives photography a legitimacy as an art form - unlike the familiar JPG format which pre-processes the image, RAW produces a digital file containing all the individual pixels without any processing. A RAW file, which is many times larger than a JPG file, typically 25MB in size, provides a ‘palette’ of light, equivalent to the oils on an artist's palette. The mouse becomes the brush and the screen becomes the canvas.
The images are printed on Fotospeed Smooth Pearl 290g natural white base paper. They are printed using genuine Canon inks on a Canon PRO-10S printer that uses 10 ink cartridges, one of which is Chroma Optimizer. This is a clear ink from the professional LUCIA ink range that delivers uniform glossiness, expands colour gamut and makes the black colours deeper.
Choose from the wide range of options below:
All the images you see on our website are available to purchase. Please choose from the following six options:
XL Frame size 60x45cm (24x18"), Image size 45x30cm (18x12"), Frame black or white, wall fixture: £225
L Frame size 50x40cm (20x16"), Image size 40x30cm (16x12"), Frame black or white, wall fixture: £175
M Frame size 40x30cm (16x12"), Image size 30x20cm (12x8"), Frame black or white, wall fixture: £85
S Frame size A4 (12"x8"), Image size 23x15cm (9x6"), Frame black only with stand and wall fixture: £45
B Unframed, mounted and bagged print A4 (12"x8"), Image size 23x15cm (9x6"): £25
C Canvases up to 122cm (48"): price upon application.
The dimensions quoted are approximate and may vary slightly. All mounts are white.
Insured postage and packing is added at cost. If you order the XL, L prints or canvases and live in East Kent we may be able to deliver them to you at no extra cost.
Please order by email or use the Contact Form. Every order is processed by us personally. Quote the image reference number, size code (XL, L, M, S, B, C) and, if you have one, your preference for frame colour. We choose the frame colour to suit each image but appreciate you may prefer white or black to suit your surroundings.
Here is a picture of our recent exhibition of prints and canvases for sale in The Drill Hall, Sandwich, Kent, UK
