Walking to work this morning I took a circuitous route and followed my nose. The smell was intoxicating to say the least and then I found it, nestling amongst the privations of city life – an old NHS ambulance dispensing medicines of a porcine and ovine kind. Is this what the Tories mean by privatising […]
Street art
Over the years that I was at University, I would make regular excursions to the Brick Lane area to marvel at the constantly changing murals on the side walls of this ethnically diverse part of London. I always marvel at how the street scene changes with the hour of the day here. This shot […]
Warm up act
Often, in the past whilst attending gig there has always been an emerging band or solo artist supporting the main act. Yesterday I attended the AGM of the Contemporary Group of the RPS. It was held at the Art Workers Guild and I was billed to appear along with Fergus Heron to talk about […]
Bad news and good news
Let’s face it, the news has been up and down and left and right since last Friday. I had a sense of foreboding before going to bed last Thursday night and to be frank the result knocked me off beam for several days. Sunday morning’s shoot of guerilla yarn-bombing of a street in Ipswich lifted […]
All change please all change. This bus is going no further
As is her want on election nights and as it turns out referenda nights, Mrs O woke me in the smallish hours padding back into the bedroom from her work-room. I was already semi-alert on account of the dawn chorus. That is something I never fail to marvel at, after a storm or the end […]
Photoeast draws to a close
June has been manic in terms of photography exhibitions. The late May Bank Holiday Weekend saw the launch of Photoeast and the exhibition I was involved in – CONTRADICTIONS, plus the degree shows of Anywhere & Everywhere from UCS, at UCS and in Hoxton. The three of us involved in CONTRADICTIONS were rostered to attend […]
Anywhere and Everywhere and the re-emergence of prostitutes on the street
Yesterday afternoon and evening was exceedingly long. I was due to attend the Rooftop Collective at Metro Imaging so I went up early to check out Anywhere and Everywhere – the UCS BA(Hons) Photography Lolondon variant of their degree show. As with last year’s group they used Hoxton Arches, in Hoxton of all places. Such […]
Backlight testing
A few tweaks still taking place but getting there. Some rearrangement will take place as the new site beds down.
New website using Backlight
For some while now, since 2012 in fact, I have been using the Turning Gate Plugins for Lightroom to create my photo site and album pages. It has to be said that even with all the functionality that Matt and Ben built into these plugins, one had to be at the interface on a regular […]
Blue, today’s colour is blue
All of a sudden we have gone from Arctic conditions to typical British summer weather in about 48 hours. The wind is still from the North but what blue skies we get with a polar blast? The clarity of the skies and the blueness is something I tune into at this time of year before […]