Mark McNulty Photography

Long Time No Blog!

Southport funfair has been closed for 2 years and only a temporary set of rides are in place in the summer months for tourists' in search of traditional seaside entertainment. So it's left to the famous Silcock's Funland to stand as the main destination for penny arcades, pinball and pensioners seeking the sun on a warm February afternoon.

I shot this today whilst doing a fashion shoot for Liverpool.com Magazine which is out mid March. I had time to kill as the models went to Blackpool instead of Southport!

Contax moment

Although I use digital for just about 100% of my work, I still like to shoot film (on a Contax G1) from time to time. It all now seems such a slow process but often worth it for the depth of colour and also the fact that you
have to wait for the film to be developed. I spent a weekend in Amsterdam Last month and purposely didn't get the film processed until a month later so that I'd mostly forgotten what I'd shot so getting the photographs back would have an element of excitement again. The downside, however, is that I'm now going to have to scan them before I can put them online and that's probably gonna take ages. This is a Contax G1 image shot on print film and it was taken about 2 years ago in Scarborough.

More excitement coming soon

I've just uploaded about 250 images of Shanghai to the library part of my site. They include cityscapes, lots of people taking photographs, people walking around in their pyjamas in the day, a dirty old river, modern buildings, crane filled skylines, building sites and traffic chaos. It's twinned with Liverpool.

Liv Tyler for shoes

Today I'm editing recent work and going through some content for my library and finally getting around to editing my images from a trip I made to Shanghai last year! I'll put a load on my stock agency website a bit later on but here's one of a cheap as chips shoe shop dedicated (?) to Liv Tyler! I especially like the way that they've included the registered logo. There was also one about a 100 yards away called Demi Dodd which may or may not have been in honour of Ken.

Smink

I've been editing some travel stock photography for my image library and came across these lost in translation 'snapshots' taken in Budapest earlier this year. One's a restaurant menu and one's a cosmetic surgeons window but which one is the safest option is anybody's guess.

Nice font for a grave

More Berlin stuff. This fella's buried opposite the graves of Bertolt Brecht and his wife Helen Weigel. Nice font.

Berlin wall

Obviously the biggest tourist attraction in Berlin is the wall, or the history of it, and in wandering around the city you can't escape seeing small sections of it and taking in some of it's history. On the Saturday we were supposed to take a 'cold war bike tour' which consists of a 6 mile bike tour that takes in the history of the wall but it seems that Germany's having the same sort of summer as us and we swerved the idea due to the rain. It also rained on the Sunday so we mostly stayed inside museums and galleries and in one day saw Re Soupault and Cindy Sherman retrospectives, went to the Kathe Kollwitz Museum and even had time to get to the Ramones Museum! We also went to find Hansa, were Bowie and Iggy recorded many of their late 1970's albums, but all we found was a private car park and a door heading underground. It was still there but these days it's just a small mixing studio by all accounts. So it was left until Monday morning to go and find out about the wall's history at the Wall Documentation Centre, only to find that we'd arrived on the anniversary of the building of the wall itself (August 13th, 1961) and the world's press had seemingly turned up for a ceremony and laying of flowers to commemorate the 270 people who died trying to make the escape from East to West. It was a surreal end to a strange few days. I'll probably be posting some more photographs as well as eventually putting up an album of more photographs from the trip.

Berlin

I'm off to Berlin in the morning so this might be my last post until I get back on Monday. But there'll no doubt be stacks of images to upload when I do get back and next week is busy with a 'hair fashion' shoot on Tuesday, a lifestyle commercial shoot for an Insurance Company on Wednesday and then a band on Thursday! Meanwhile, here's a Berlin bear from a previous visit.