Karen Strunks Professional Birmingham-based Freelance Photographer

Doctor Who Live Tour – The Monsters Are Coming to Birmingham!

 A few press shots from my BBC photoshoot this morning in Victoria Square, Birmingham.

Dr Who and his merry band of monsters are coming to town in the Doctor Who Live Tour.

Though I must admit seeing the cyberman walk was more funny than scary, though I had to run away when he tried to strangle me!

They drew quite a crowd outside the council house!

And don’t forget to check out my lastest project! The Big Apple Unpeeled.

ALSO!

The next 4am Project date has been set, so get your camera ready for 17th October!

New date for the 4am Project!

I know I’ve been a bit quiet here, but not without a good excuse.

 I’ve been busy working behind the scenes and can now announce…….

It’s 4am Project time again!

Get ready for 17th October and set your alarms and take part in compiling a picture of the world at 4am.

Thanks to the support and funding from Channel 4 and Screen WM I’ve been able to work on some exciting plans for the project that will make it sustainable.

I’m going to be taking the project over to NYC for this event, but will do my best to organise something special for Birmingham again.

Also there may be a couple of sponsorship opportunities coming up, so keep your eyes peeled here and over at the 4am Project for announcements!

Birmingham Photographer: NHS Health Exchange

This photography set comes from a commission from the Health Exchange which is part of the NHS.

The Health Exhchange is a social enterprised based in Birmingham. It delivers free and confidential health information about lifestyle choices helping people to make postivite decisions about their health.

It was a very interesting and varied job with a detailed brief. I needed to capture a set of images that reflected their services and presented an attractive, positive view of the services that they offer.

As well as covering quite a range images, I covered a far bit of ground in and around Birmingham, starting in the city centre then working my way out to various locations in Winson Green, Handsworth, Cannon Hill Park and Sparkhill. And I was mostly relying on the willingness of the public to be photographed!

I hope you enjoy this set of active photographs from Birmingham!  

 I was by St Philip’s church when some music in the distance caught my ear. I wondered over, to find that the International Dance Festival were choreographying a dance routine. Perfect!

 I joined a group of walkers in Handsworth Park. Boy, could they power walk! Which meant I had to run to keep ahead of them at times to get various shots. I was quite exhuasted after that jaunt!  

 I wanted to capture the ‘movement’ of the treadmill, so slowed my shutter speed down for this shot.

Some screen shots of the Health Exchange website so you can see how my photographs have been used!

I’ve got SO much blogging to catch up on! I did my first wedding photography shoot recently, so will be blogging about that soon, so watch this space