Today’s weather would not be good for dogs. Ours would have turned his nose up at having to go out in this, I very nearly did so in doing the messages this morning which is why I got to thinking about our locale. Every morning he would trot, and he did trot almost like a […]
Colour or Black and White?
I often ask this question. I began my photographic journey using B&W medium format film back in 1968. I don’t think it is nostalgia, but I do have a preponderance to preferring monochromatic images. Colour is very important in my life but it is always a toss up between deciding to make B&W images or […]
Just chillin’
I don’t know who Dave was. Yesterday, in my excitement over the Kingfisher, I decided not to post any of the other images I made. This bench on the Gipping path is something I see when I do my regular bicycle ride. This morning it was still raining here so no bicycle exercise for me, […]
Laid up and empty
I was out on the morning of the 22nd December capturing pre and post-sunrise images around Ipswich and the Wet Dock. The pre-dawn bustle of activity as people arrived for work at the Willis building was in stark contrast to the laid up vessels on the future ‘enterprise island’ and the as yet forlornly empty […]
Mortality – a week of highlights
The news this week has been dire in terms of wanton murder of children and teachers in Pakistan and hearing of the eight children found stabbed to death in Queensland. These two incidents seem to have wrapped up what has been a tumultuous year for man’s inhumanity to man, and in the 100th anniversary of […]
Alert, Vigilant and gone for a Burton
I was alerted to the Trinity House vessel moored in the Wet Dock a few days ago but last night as I made my way from the station to the UCS campus to visit the ‘Untitled.’ degree show student’s exhibition last night at St Clement Church I noticed a revenue cutter was moored alongside the […]
Mixed feelings
Yesterday was a strange day. It is two years ago tomorrow that I maneuvered mother-in-law into the care home but it was on the Friday, a very wet Friday that the move took place in the dark that can only come from a December evening. These thoughts ran through my mind as I scuttled down […]
An antidote to Black Friday
Yesterday I was in London. I had to go to take part in an analytical workshop for user experience of using a website. The outcomes were to create an improved experience with a new site yet to be developed. I wondered about time to grab some pictures but popped the P6000 into my bag. It […]
What is beauty?
I am making work for the East Anglian Contemporary Group of the RPS. The project is on the Wet Dock and environs in Ipswich. Over the last month or so I have been looking out for aspects of the dock that would make for a contemporary series of images and I discovered this old lady […]
Contemporary Times
This week, today in fact, is the end of an era. My access card to the UCS campus ceases to be valid after midnight. Times have moved on however. As a part of my re-integration into non-academic life I joined the Contemporary group of the RPS. Their ethos for image making sits comfortably with me […]