Last Sunday I had to drive down to Canterbury for work. I don’t like and have always avoided travelling away on a Sunday evening but at times needs must. The forecast was ominous and I could see what I was driving into with a blindingly bright setting sun to my right and the Hades like […]
Pleasant pheasants
In between the interminable periods of waiting for Kingfisher activity last week I kept my eye in for other opportunities. I have noticed before, on other holidays, how glorious pheasants look as they strut their stuff along the banks of the Bure. They look so different to the farmed pheasants let out to be shot […]
Fish suppers
Mrs O and I do not often have a fish supper. Mostly, when we both happen to have the same day off and the sun is shining for instance, we might take a trip up the coast to Aldeburgh to scoff fish and chips on the sea wall by the Martello Tower. Last week we […]
Teased, tormented, transfixed. A surfeit of Alcedo Atthis
What a week this has been for Alcedo Atthis. Many readers will know of my predilection with these small, skittish and utterly charming birds. One of my theories in getting close enough to photograph them is to use a boat especially on waters where the birds are used to boats. The River Bure must at […]
More film back from the lab and new pieces from the UCS Fine Art Auction
I have been steadily working through my stock of Portra 160 and called into the Kodak Pro lab today to collect the latest batch. Every time I pick up my film it is like the very first time I saw a print emerge in a tray as a child. I have never lost, nor will […]
Today I went back to where it all started
The forecast was good for this morning so I was up and out a few minutes before sunrise. I used to hate the clocks going forward when I was on a regular commute as slipping back into darkness was always a let down. Now though, I relish the extra shooting time for my early morning […]
Edgelands – The Exhibition
Many of my regular readers will have followed my feverish production of new images for my series ‘Edgelands’. I began this series in late September 2013 as my degree project and have extended it beyond my initial capture area to include other interfaces between urban and rural landscapes in the county of Suffolk. For some […]
Millstream, Kingfisher, Constable and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
I watched the revelation on TV a few weeks ago about the discovery by a conservator of a Kingfisher in Constable’s Millstream. I was lucky enough to have helped wrap this stretcher in protective blankets before it went off for forensic examination in 2013. Before it went I archived the image in the Wolsey Art […]
Farms and Chernobyl
I did not step foot outside of the house yesterday but made up for it this morning. I popped out for a short walk at 0700 as shooting for the RPS Docklands project has been on the back burner of late as Edgelands has nosed it out. I got home at 0945 and the D810 […]
A very busy week making new Edgelands images
It has been frenetic this week. After the lows of last week, sitting indoors with a woolly hat on with the heating on – never a good look says Mrs O, I have had to catch up on slipped deliverables for the extended shoot of Edgelands. One morning spent frozen to the bone and then […]