I was out in my quest for new Edgelands locations yesterday morning. Was it cold or not? I tagged some places but they need to be a Sunday morning job on account of traffic and other issues. Much of this fishing lake was frozen. I’m not sure what was cooking but this image makes me […]
Edgelands – a Stowmarket excursion
After yesterday’s glorious dawn, today is somewhat dull, grey, cold and damp. Today will be about mainly working indoors. I have broken out of Ipswich and Shotley Peninsula in my quest for more Edgelands locations. There are a number of locations I have found around Stowmarket but access to the right viewpoint at my preferred […]
The Northern Fringe
There is an old adage within photography and that is if you do not record something within six months of arriving in a place then it will have changed. This view on the Northern Fringe of Ipswich is subject to contentious planning change and the vista seen here might no longer be on account of […]
Actions speak louder than words
I am continuing to shoot locations for my extended body of work ‘Edgelands’. Most if not all of the sites that I find to photograph have had their post-war industrial function erased leaving just scars in the landscape yet somehow nature prevails. Such is the way of the natural world. What amazes me is the […]
Tooks taken over
When I first came to live in Suffolk one of the first things to see on entering Ipswich from the West, was the Tooks bakery. It was a large rambling site of factory sheds and delivery lorries. One of Mrs O’s uncles was a director there so as we passed by it I’d often hear […]
Waste not want not
I watched a BBC ‘World About Us’ documentary this morning. Simon Robinson, a PhD student of photography tweeted the link and as I studied the author and presenter as part of my degree project work I’ll share it also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL7-LqQhjE This film was shown in July 1975 , produced by the BBC in Bristol as […]
Subjective colour – CSCL Globe
I thought better of heading down to Felixstowe this morning. I really did not want my gear ending up in the North Sea unlike my fellow photographer in the last post. The wind had been quite gusty overnight but nothing like the Outer Hebrides. What an awful Shipping Forecast this morning. I did experiment with […]
CSCL Globe before daybreak
The weather yesterday afternoon, when I stumbled upon CSCL Globe berthed at Landguard with half the population of Suffolk blocking Viewpoint Road was dire. It is as equally if not more dire as I write this post today. I got a good vantage point yesterday from the nature reserve with the elevated position overlooking the […]
Largest ship in the world berths at Felixstowe
I went on a recce this afternoon along the Eastern edges of Ipswich looking for Edgelands sites. It was grim in terms of weather and nothing was stimulating my photography buds so I hoofed it down to Felixstowe to see if anything was in at Landguard. Well, I’ve never seen so much traffic. I was […]
Dog waste
I was out early this morning, an hour before daybreak but it was such a dark morning compared to yesterday which was impossibly bright. The temperature was up by at least 6 or 8 degrees. Such is Winter in temperate climes. I checked out the shipping movements for the dock and tide times and it […]