After the foray up the coast to Southwold on Tuesday it was back to making work yesterday morning and today. I was up and out 1 hour 15 minutes before sunrise yesterday and what a sunrise it was. I have said this before, I never tire of seeing a sunrise. It is the most magical […]
Fish finger sandwich – Southwold style
Yesterday, the sun shone, just as it is today. Often on an Winter’s day when we get a high sitting over us and we happen to be not compelled to work, we will head up the coast to Southwold. We last went there on New Year’s Eve. I forgot that it was half-term until we […]
Plan to fail
Yesterday was a long day. I as up at 0430 to hoof it down to Ashford. In some ways I was glad of the excuse to let the train take the strain especially after ruining the tyre on Monday. I do not like driving with a space saver other than back and forth to the […]
Pot luck on my shoot today – light too flat and a flat tyre to boot.
I was up and out before the Larks this morning. The high pressure system was shouting large format photography. A left-right choice in Ipswich saw me heading over to Orford to see if the light and lack of wind would be suitable for a large format image of the caravan and sheds plus small boats […]
I should have been out before sunrise today
I study the weather charts intensely to try and select optimum conditions for making my Edgelands work. This week has had some perfect conditions but circumstance or me being a bit dull or under the weather has meant missed opportunities. Friday presented perfect lavender grey clouds that render perfectly in Kodak Portra emulsion but I […]
Of times past
One of the locations I noted for my Edgelands series last year came too late for my degree project work. We had taken a walk along the river at Orford and cut through a field of Oil Seed Rape in full bloom. At one time of day I would have reacted quite badly to the […]
Abbot’s and cake
The weather this morning was just about right for a few large format images at one of my new locations. The light was flatter than I expected but hey-ho, I’ll just have to wait for the Portra to get to the lab and back. I snook the D810 out with me and whilst the tripod […]
New Edgelands locations
It has been a busy week. The two shoot-worthy days were Sunday and Tuesday. Large and medium format negatives have yielded good results at the three new Edgelands locations. I’ve posted selected images to the Edgelands galleries but these medium format images are from Tuesday morning and from two affluent areas of Suffolk. It is […]
New location out of the soup
Yesterday I picked up the 5×4 negs and roll of 120 from Redwood. I fluid mount scanned them this morning much to Mrs O’s concerns over the fumes permeating the house. I have had some strange results in post processing but this one looks relatively true to the scene I saw. It is quite different […]
Natural reclamation
As of this past week, Edgelands has moved up a gear. Various impediments to progressing the extended shoot have now been overcome and a weather window has permitted a second visit to a new location identified last November. The forecast for this morning was spot on or indeed in reality better than spot on. I […]