This photograph has acquired the name the House on the Hill simply through usage. Anytime I want to discuss it with people that is the name we use and everyone knows which one we are talking about. The hill in the title is actually a cliff if you examine the photograph. The photograph was taken in Trinity town on the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada, the house sits on a little cliff overlooking the bay. I’d been to the town in previous years and I’d even taken photographs of the house before but as anyone who has been to Newfoundland knows fog or rain seem to make it into every photograph, a bit like Ireland really. This year when we visited Trinity the weather was perfect and I finally managed to get a shot of the house that  I liked.

I love the Newfoundland landscape and the Newfoundland buildings. Brightly painted wooden houses, docks and churches seem to dot the landscape but they frequently have a timeless old world charm. Trinity is a prime example of an old Newfoundland community. Maybe it is a little too well preserved at times and maybe a little too touristy but it is one of the prettiest little communities I’ve ever visited and it features in several of my photographs this year. The house on the hill is a prime example of those little houses, jutting out of the rock yet still part of the environment.

Over the next week or so I will post a little piece on each photo that I have selected for the Peoples Photography exhibition. It’s just a way to explain things like what is the subject of the photograph is, where and when it was taken and why I chose it for the exhibition. I’ll do them in the current order in which they appear in the album, starting with the House on the Hill and moving on from there. The order of the album might change later but it’s as good a way to get started as any.

I’ve selected the photos I will be putting into the Peoples Photography exhibition plus a couple of spares in case I dont like some on the day or in case I actually sell some and need to replace them. You can find the complete selection in the album here.

I’ve spent some time today updating my website. Simple changes some new and updated photos and a new navigation bar to improve integration with this blog. The navigation bar should be easy to configure but Apple’s iWeb insists on limiting access to how the page navigation works. In the end I had to create a new navigation bar using a text box. I think it looks better than the original one but it will now need to be managed on each page. Fortunately I don’t plan on having more than a handful of pages so the solution will work for me but if Apple is planning on updating iWeb some time soon giving users more control over the navigation bar would be great.

Another step on the road to Peoples Photography. As soon as I have finalised the 20 photographs that I will display at the exhibition I will add a new album to show them.

The slots for Peoples Photography have been announced and I’ve moved from 376 last year to 70 this year. Granted my bump up the list was aided by the fact that I’ve been helping out with the organisation and have been running the new website. Still I’m delighted to be on the North side of the Green where more people will see my photos. If you are around Dublin on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th August you should walk around St Stephens Green and see some great photography on display from all the photographers.

Ok, so my 36 prints from a couple of weeks ago produced maybe 7 photos that were up to scratch. Woops! Another print run went in, this time with 40 photos which included fixes for some from the previous run and a bunch of new photos that I worked on. That produced a much better set of prints. I now have 18 of my 20 and 3 new photos from the last 2 weeks that might make the might make the cut are in the printers now.

I still have to figure out how I will hang the photos but the good news there is that I have to put up a post on the Peoples Photography site with information on how to hang photos with information from other organisers so hopefully once that is done I’ll have a clearer idea of what I’ll do.