Last night a sudden brief but blindingly bright and fleeting light illuminated the sky from behind us. I peered out of the window. There was nothing to see. Some while later I decided to see if the day’s storm clouds had cleared the night skies for some more experimental low light photography. I then discovered […]
Wondering at the firmament
In a week of mass natural destruction and death, state execution and civil murder, I gazed up into the night sky last night and wondered at just how small we are in the scale of things. I could see Ursa Major clearly with my naked (but corrected) eyesight. I was not prepared for the detail […]
Photography and time
All photography is about time.Time that is captured in a fraction of a second and once the latent image is developed in chemistry or processed by an in-camera chip, it is a matter of history. Recently, I ventured along the cliffs at Easton Bavents at beach level. I was aware of sacrifical erosion along our […]
Scything
I am no Ross Poldark. Ask Mrs O. I have done a bit of scything in my time though and also a bit of sickling – infinitely more dangerous than wielding a scythe though. One of the things I learned about scything apart from being a back breaking chore was the selective cutting of vegetation. […]
Decades come and go
I stayed up late last night, way past my bedtime to see out my 6th decade. I used to play golf before I went off to UCS to study photography and I still find the spring lushness and azaleas of Augusta National awe inspiring. So Mrs O elected to knit and watch telly in her […]
Private view – Bill Jackson FRPS
I jumped in the car to go and attend Bill’s PV at Halesworth today and nothing. The dashboard lit up like a flashing Christmas tree but the engine would not fire. Move on 45 minutes and the RAC had diagnosed a failed battery. A new one materialised out of his van, my plastic was handed […]
Edgelands – the cull has started
I had to go into UCS today for a meeting so I took advantage of the vast and empty Fusion Lab to lay out 75 printed medium format images from the last edit of the series. This time last year Lux Locus were busy preparing to hang a pre-degree show exhibition in Ipswich Town Hall […]
I don’t often take taxis….
Of course I have taken taxis over the years. To and from termini with bags as I scurried here and there on work assignments but not normally in a social context. Last night we got the dreaded call from the care home that Mrs O’s mother was being taken into A&E by ambulance. This was […]
The kindness of other artists
Yesterday was a typically grim Easter Saturday. The afternoon brightened up somewhat not least of which was down to another opening of a new monthly exhibition at The Freudian Sheep . I got to know one of the proprietors whilst at UCS. Mossy was a Fine Art student, I a photography student. Since he and […]
Edgelands – Bury St Edmunds
From Canterbury to Bury St Edmunds in a week. Two hugely important locations in their day. A week ago today I studied the weather charts and decided that office work could go and wait. I needed to get out and make more work for the series ‘Edgelands’. Storm force winds and rain do not not […]