PROFESSIONAL photographer Les Meehan has taken everyday subjects and given them a original twist using digital technology.

Les is originally from Manchester and after a spell in London and France has returned to his northern roots and now lives in Beehive Cottages, Stacksteads.

He is holding his first exhibition of colour and monochrome pictures at Rossendale Museum in Whitaker Park featuring 40 different photographs.

He said: "The title of the exhibition is Singular Images and there isn't really a theme because I don't like to be categorised.

"They feature a range of subjects from still life to giant landscapes of the Pyrenees. I do like detail and most of the pictures are from nature but I like looking at things a bit differently.

"The images have been doctored. I am a creative artist and I have used the computer as a tool.

"One picture shows a dam. I have added water gushing down the dam and I defy anybody to tell me it wasn't actually there because it is done so you would never know. It could have happened, it could have happened, but it this instant it hadn't."

Les, 46, is also a published author and his first book Creative Exposure Control has sold world-wide is now on the recommended reading list for students in an Australian photography school.

He studied full-time image making at Blackpool Art College in the late 1970s and after college went to London where he assisted prominent photographers including Terence Donovan and opened his own studio.

Besides the exhibition, Les is also holding two talks at the museum. On March 24 at 1.30pm he will present a talk entitled creativity, visual awareness which will be for all artists.

And on April 7 at 1.30pm the talk will be on digital imagery to show how images are created using examples of work he has in the exhibition.