Misty mornings like today have been like hen’s teeth this winter. My mind was half-cocked this morning waiting for the alarm to go at 05:00 and the forecast was spot on. Bitterly cold and fog on the way. How time flies at this time of year. Getting up at this time last week was adequate […]
Blown away
This week has been very busy already. After a 15 hour working day yesterday starting at 0445, I had a lie in today until 0500. For the first time in weeks we had a dramatic drop in temperature forecast with light winds (below 10knots). I was so excited I could hardly get to sleep. I […]
Tourist traps
Last week I happened upon an improbable projected image of Bamburgh Castle at dusk. Images of this castle must be one of the most reproduced or emulated ever, especially for the front cover of photography magazines. Indeed, I blogged about the very phenomenon of a sea of tripods nestled in the rocks at Budle point […]
Blink and you will miss it
Let’s be fair about this, the weather of late has been grim, just grim. Temperatures and isobars are all over the place. In desperation to get some medium and large format work done I got out on site late yesterday afternoon about an hour before sunset. I am starting to make new work based on […]
All systems go
Two days at the same site could not be so different. Following on from my trudge through the mud of the Gipping Valley path the other day making reference shots for a new Edgelands subject I weighed up the logistics of getting my gear into place to make the images I have in my mind’s […]
Pastures new
Despite the grim weather of late I am actively seeking pastures new for the extended shooting of Edgelands. Back in the summer I met Kate Jackson at Smith’s Row in Bury St Edmunds and we found that we had something in common in our approach to making bodies of work. Her abstract brutalism paintings are […]
Bitterly cold, bitterly disappointed
I have watched the weather forecasts with glee over this past week seeing that today would have a high sitting over us therefore perfect windless conditions to get the large format cameras out. The dark slides were loaded up yesterday and it was an early bedtime to make sure I was up at 0530 and […]
A grand day out
Last Sunday I popped Mrs O the question of whether she would like to go up to Norwich to see Affinity & Kindred – Richard Denyer’s show at the Cathedral. It turned out that she had already conjured up the same thought so off we trundled with a rear view mirror full of ominous skies […]
Whilst revellers slept a sign was seen in the East
I am not one for NYE. I usually get woken up at midnight when more fireworks go off. This is less of an issue these days since Sam went to the great kennel in the sky. He was not one for unexpected bangs in the middle of the night unlike Bilbo who could be found […]
East of Greenwich
The weather of late has been a bit grim to say the least but thankfully not as grim as it has been up North. Years of misunderstanding of upland management and rivers management coupled with reactionary government have conspired with, it has to be said, global warming to exacerbate non-seasonal deluges of precipitation that ought […]