My wife is a yarn addict. I like to tell a yarn and I like cake. My wife’s addiction had discovered a not so often open cake and yarn shop in Otley so when the offer of cake was made this morning I as usual packed a camera. Now, for those of you who know […]
Street art July 2014
In my last blog, I mentioned bumming around Brick Lane waiting for the next cheap train home. I have visited the same sites in and around Brick Lane for several years now as the layers of artwork are constantly changing like the tide. Here are a few from my favourite locations. What I like about […]
Taylor Wessing, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, alumni – a grand day out
Yesterday morning I stood shivering in a Northerly breeze at Ipswich Station. I was travelling up to LCC to drop off my TW2014 entries with Keith Locke, a fellow alumni. We have done this for the last three years and make a day out of it taking in galleries, making pictures and putting the world […]
Leudi Extinction Meter
When I shot my first portfolio for university applications in 1972 I used a Zenit B. This camera was a basic Russian brick of a camera with very few things that could go wrong. There was no meter. The Zenit E did have a matchstick style meter that one could refer to but this was […]
Edgelands – Goldfinch
Reading The Unofficial Countryside and Edgelands there was a constant undercurrent of the wildlife observed . Something I did an awful lot of during my pre-degree photography era was wildlife photography. I am no bird watcher or twitcher, I just like to photograph what I see. Last night whilst re-visiting some of my Edgelands sites […]
Edgelands – cone
And here is another comparison. I am fascinated by the differences but I still prefer the look and feel of the original 6×6 format on Kodak Portra 400. The majority of my Landscape type images are made during the Winter months. Subtleties such as camera height also play a part. The original was shot with […]
Edgelands revisited – July 2014
I stopped shooting my project at the end of March. In the intervening months I have been preoccupied with delivering my degree portfolio and putting on two shows. Top that with trying to get my body back into a fit enough state to work and I’ve found that 3 and a half months have flown […]
Liverpool
A few images from Liverpool. Evening light.
Bath and Nero
Last Tuesday we had to take shelter from a torrential downpour whilst in Bath. I happened to be talking to another alumni on the phone at the time about degree results. We like the coffee in Cafe Nero so it seemed strange that we ducked in the there to drink a double espresso in Nero […]
Graduate gradually slips back into the mainstream
Barely a month has elapsed since we opened in Free Range yet the degree results are out and whether we like them or not, it is all water under the bridge. There is no going back and this weekend signifies a major step into my rehabilitation into mainstream society. Looking back on 2 years 10 […]