Bumping into Kate Jackson on Friday night made me realise I had been neglecting my ongoing Edgelands work. The Spring and Summer has been far too wet and windy for the Large Format gear so I extended my parameters and began shooting some images digitally. Regular readers will know that if it is dry in […]
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 […]
PhotoEast and Contradictions
PhotoEast opened today. It is primarily based on and in the environs of the Wet Dock in Ipswich – signature setting for the long term CONTRADICTIONS documentary based on the ever changing aspects of the docklands of the Orwell. Bill Jackson is running sessions at The Cut in Halesworth. If you have dog, get down […]
It does not have to be sharp
I am a fussy myopic, or at least that is what an optometrist told me back in the 80’s. Apparently, according to him people with my eye condition are more likely to wear the coating off their lenses through obsessive cleaning in the quest for pin sharp resolution. Long-sighted people, he said, could get away […]
Light is everything
In this game, light is all. In natural surroundings the only way to capture it is to be out there when it happens. Studio work can be quite attractive at times especially when conditions outside are grim but when the subject is outside then it is a question of grin and bear it. The last […]
Blue on blue
Yes, more new Edgelands images, although the first is an opportunistic shot at the tail end of the shoot for the day. Everything on this site is re-cycled or processed to the point of limiting what goes off site. On each visit in the afternoon or early evening I have witnessed the sights and ominous […]
Generating new Edgelands images
I’ve been busy this week on all sorts of fronts, Ipswich, Ashford and London and burning the candle processing 5 more rolls of Kodak Portra 400 developed by Peak Imaging. When I first got access to Muntons site I was drawn to this emergency generator. I loved the faded blue paint, and doesn’t blue fade. […]
I like to see connections
Whenever I photograph subjects there is always a reason why. The initial draw is one thing but as I look more at what drew me into the picture I begin to see differently and more often than not I see connections no matter how tenuous they may seem. With this image, it was the red […]
…and a few minutes more
A few extras from yesterday. Still ploughing through the medium format negatives. An extra large format. All un-spotted as yet. No point doing that if I am going to scan again at higher resolution. Perhaps my favourite medium format of the site so far. The juxtaposition of the commercial silos holding barley from the vast […]
4 minute rule
Over the last year I have often been asked about how and when I make my large format images. Often as not I’ll say that sometimes I’m lucky to get 4 minutes of light at the right wavelength on the right day. Of late, and very late that is for me in my shooting season, […]