In my quest to identify new locations and vantage points for Edgelands imagery, I am becoming numb as to what people through over hedges or dump in ditches. I doubt this bracken patch was good for a picnic. That said, I can recall days under canvas back in the early 60’s when we stuffed bracken […]
Blink and you will miss it
Let’s be fair about this, the weather of late has been grim, just grim. Temperatures and isobars are all over the place. In desperation to get some medium and large format work done I got out on site late yesterday afternoon about an hour before sunset. I am starting to make new work based on […]
All systems go
Two days at the same site could not be so different. Following on from my trudge through the mud of the Gipping Valley path the other day making reference shots for a new Edgelands subject I weighed up the logistics of getting my gear into place to make the images I have in my mind’s […]
Pastures new
Despite the grim weather of late I am actively seeking pastures new for the extended shooting of Edgelands. Back in the summer I met Kate Jackson at Smith’s Row in Bury St Edmunds and we found that we had something in common in our approach to making bodies of work. Her abstract brutalism paintings are […]
Three masted topsail schooner
Following on from yesterday I thought I’d look out an old favourite of mine in my archive. My records show this was made in 1979, an auspicious year as that is when I tied the knot with Mrs.O and also when I circumnavigated Great Britain on HMCC Searcher. So this image had to be made […]
Shadows from the past
I went to a gentleman’s funeral today. Most of the packed service was filled with people I had not seen since 1981. I was glad that some crew mates from our round Britain shakedown of HMCC Searcher, and many others were there and it was poignant to see Ron’s coffin draped in an ensign from […]
Bitterly cold, bitterly disappointed
I have watched the weather forecasts with glee over this past week seeing that today would have a high sitting over us therefore perfect windless conditions to get the large format cameras out. The dark slides were loaded up yesterday and it was an early bedtime to make sure I was up at 0530 and […]
A grand day out
Last Sunday I popped Mrs O the question of whether she would like to go up to Norwich to see Affinity & Kindred – Richard Denyer’s show at the Cathedral. It turned out that she had already conjured up the same thought so off we trundled with a rear view mirror full of ominous skies […]
Whilst revellers slept a sign was seen in the East
I am not one for NYE. I usually get woken up at midnight when more fireworks go off. This is less of an issue these days since Sam went to the great kennel in the sky. He was not one for unexpected bangs in the middle of the night unlike Bilbo who could be found […]
Does Cameron think he is Cnut?
Now, I pose this question and use his name as he heads up the current administration. I came across this today as part of my ongoing collaborative record of the Orwell Docklands. With all that is happening up North with 1:200 year floods occurring of late on a 1:2 weeks ratio some serious re-thinking is […]