Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been trying to put together a successful Grants for the Arts application. My first attempt was rejected in late October and today I submitted my second attempt for funding to shoot the extended Edgelands project, so 6 weeks from now I should know the second […]
Black and White challenge – day 5
I agonised over what to post for this final image but finally settled on the Rural Idyll image. This was made at sunrise in June 2013 near Waldringfield. I had spotted this contraption during a winter’s drive when I decided to take a different route home from Woodbridge. After that I could not remember where […]
Black and White challenge – day 4
I have been entangled in the judiciary system now for nearly two weeks. I am not a willing participant, I am merely doing my duty. I have a background that exposed me to legal process from a very early age yet I am finding it difficult at times to grasp the rationale of the practices […]
Black and White challenge – day 3
This image was made outside a healthcare centre in Ipswich. It is where the healthcare workers go for a breath of fresh air in between dealing with people with all manner of illnesses brought about by genetics or lifestyle or just plain bad luck. Always nice to know the righteous have their vices.
Black and White challenge – day 2
The height of summer in a busy seaside resort.
Black and white challenge – day 1
I wondered how long it would be before this landed in my inbox. Thank you Eddie Osborne.
Autumn. I think it is here
It seems like aeons ago that we were in Harrogate, but it is only a week since we got back. An elongated summer has helped the paint dry quickly this week and my mind is turning towards re-starting the Edgelands shoot. Just a few too many leaves on the trees at present for my […]
Yorkshireman made environment
Apart from the forces of nature, most of this island presents itself as adapted by mankind to suit its needs of the times. I studied the aspects of our intervention and shaping of the landscape for my degree but on a short trip up to North Yorkshire to the spawning grounds of the great industrial […]
Zenza Bronica – Kodak Portra 400
I paid a visit to the framing gallery this week to drop off some of my ‘Pictures from an exhibition’ series for mounting. They are going into the forthcoming Freudian Sheep exhibition ‘Small World’. Whilst I was at it, I decided to get this image taken at Felixstowe in early winter 2013 as an end […]
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 […]