Feast and famine! Everything around East Anglia for the last week has been all about photography. The RPS East Anglia Contemporary Group opened their show at Thornham the morning after the PV for PhotoEast. Earlier in the week the graduates from UCS BA(Hons) Photography had their show – also part of PhotoEast but I had […]
PhotoEast and Contradictions
PhotoEast opened today. It is primarily based on and in the environs of the Wet Dock in Ipswich – signature setting for the long term CONTRADICTIONS documentary based on the ever changing aspects of the docklands of the Orwell. Bill Jackson is running sessions at The Cut in Halesworth. If you have dog, get down […]
It does not have to be sharp
I am a fussy myopic, or at least that is what an optometrist told me back in the 80’s. Apparently, according to him people with my eye condition are more likely to wear the coating off their lenses through obsessive cleaning in the quest for pin sharp resolution. Long-sighted people, he said, could get away […]
Bill Brandt’s words of wisdom as pertinent today as when he uttered them
Mrs O and I take the Guardian of a weekend along with a Murdoch paper. It is all about balance. I like the Review section of the Guardian particularly and it takes me a week to read it mainly as I munch through my toast and quaff a pot full of espresso. Anyway yesterday morning […]
Festivals everyhere and more
Where did last week go? Monday saw me and two other reprobates being photographed by renowned local photographer Chris Myhill. Chris had come to our rescue and made group and single portraits of us for our forthcoming exhibition – Contradictions Note the haircut. I had it freshly done for the shoot which was just as […]
Southwold distractions and Photoeast
Last week Mrs O and I spent another week in Southwold. We like to go when the grockles are not there and even though we are visitors, I don’t class ourselves as grockles as we live in the county and this is just another of our many resorts. I had hoped to photograph the cliffs […]
The firmament, Chernobyl and Selsey Herb & Goat farm
Scary stuff. Listening to the wireless this morning having been woken before dawn to the sound of sleet sliding down the windows I was scared witless by the fact that the Chernobyl disaster was 30 years ago. Forget the fact that I have forgotten most of what has happened in between, it was the fact […]
There’s nothing like a change of focus to get the creativity juices flowing
Sometimes I force myself to look at something other than my ongoing long term projects. I do this to ensure I look at and see other things. It also tests my knowledge and skills using various cameras and processing techniques. Only last night I saw two Short Eared Owls quartering at dusk and that was […]
Old dogs and new tricks
A fellow nomadic photographer chum remarked on Monday that he wanted trade in his RB for a Fuji GW670, also known as the Texas Leica. Well, yesterday I spent a hectic 8 hours scanning negatives for Year 3 students at UCS. I’m very impressed with the work submitted for scanning and I’m looking forward to […]
Light is everything
In this game, light is all. In natural surroundings the only way to capture it is to be out there when it happens. Studio work can be quite attractive at times especially when conditions outside are grim but when the subject is outside then it is a question of grin and bear it. The last […]