Following on from the news I got the other day, I dug out my old negative archive. I have a new archive, also of negatives and mainly colour, but revisiting 35mm Black & White I have noticed how frugal I was in making images when we were saving for a deposit to buy a house. […]
And yet another mooring is slipped…..
2015 has been some year. It has had its highs and lows its alphas and omegas. Last night I got news that my first cutter commander, Ron Bayly MBE had slipped his moorings on Boxing Day. He was 92 and an absolute gentleman. I sailed with quite a few other commanders after that inauguaral trial […]
East of Greenwich
The weather of late has been a bit grim to say the least but thankfully not as grim as it has been up North. Years of misunderstanding of upland management and rivers management coupled with reactionary government have conspired with, it has to be said, global warming to exacerbate non-seasonal deluges of precipitation that ought […]
Pulling more information out of Portra film
I have been conducting more tests on old favourites. Here is an example of a scene that can no longer be seen like this. I need to get down there with the large format cameras and see what I can capture without getting flattened by a dumper truck. Same negative two different scanners. Without […]
Image and perception
Last night I went out for my dinner at The Gilbert Scott tucked in the corner of St Pancras Station. This was an annual meal, always in a different place to coincide with a strategy meeting I was attending. The walk down Euston Road was more like an event from an Ironman event in that […]
Time marches on
I really do not know where the time goes these days. I thought I was busy whilst at university but since then I seem to be constantly juggling balls and spinning plates. The show still goes on at the Museum of East Anglian Life. Pop in and check out the christmas trees, yes plural, in […]
That was a week that was
I don’t know if it is me getting older or the sands of time have speeded up but I just don’t know where the time goes these days. This time last week Mrs O and I were in Leeds, a wetter than wet Leeds even though in the past I have seen the Aire so […]
Changing seasons and Ways with Words
First let me warn all my readers that the exhibition space Abbot’s Hall where Edgelands is showing is now on low season opening times. That is Tuesday-Saturday. Note NOT SUNDAY. We spent a few days in Southwold for the Ways with Words event and boy, was it wet and windy affair or what. That is […]
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival & a potential new location for Alec Soth
On Trafalgar Day, also Mrs O’s birthday, dry rot discovery day, graduation day and now Swaffham Visual Arts Festival day I motored up to Swaffham with Mrs O through Thetford Forest. It was a wonderfully bleak drive through persistent drizzle that made for stunning autumnal colours. These days are rare and to be cherished. We […]
From Here to There
The last few weeks have been hectic since we got back from our Northumberland jaunt. I had to get started on preparing my presentation for the Swaffham Visual Arts Festival, shoot the Agile Business Conference and Mrs O had to put the final pieces in place for her mother’s affairs. The sunny week we had […]