Reading The Unofficial Countryside and Edgelands there was a constant undercurrent of the wildlife observed . Something I did an awful lot of during my pre-degree photography era was wildlife photography. I am no bird watcher or twitcher, I just like to photograph what I see. Last night whilst re-visiting some of my Edgelands sites […]
Edgelands – cone
And here is another comparison. I am fascinated by the differences but I still prefer the look and feel of the original 6×6 format on Kodak Portra 400. The majority of my Landscape type images are made during the Winter months. Subtleties such as camera height also play a part. The original was shot with […]
Edgelands revisited – July 2014
I stopped shooting my project at the end of March. In the intervening months I have been preoccupied with delivering my degree portfolio and putting on two shows. Top that with trying to get my body back into a fit enough state to work and I’ve found that 3 and a half months have flown […]
Friday was the best and the worst day
Last Friday was the longest day ever as I waited at home for my very large C-Type prints to arrive from Metro following an exacerbating group meeting about our degree shows. I just had to get out of UCS as fast as possible that day which made the rest of the day arduous to say […]
Fly tipping – here today, gone tomorrow
I have or should I say had found a new site to explore for my Edgelands project this past Tuesday. I re-visited the site today in impossibly bright conditions to find that my tableau of found offerings had mostly been cleared away. The berries were still on the bare shrubs but the fly-tipped detritus had […]
Constable Country – Turner Sky?
I tried to make the best of the near still conditions yesterday morning, the calmest weather for over a month, to shoot some large format work at my current project locations. As with all things like this the wind or lack of it was perfect but the light at Freston Hill and Cattawade was dreary […]
Quiet January – so far
Blogging has been low on my agenda these past 16 days. To be honest, I was utterly exhausted by the time Christmas arrived what with all the planned and unplanned events during December but also to do with a full on first semester of my final year at UCS. Something had to give and I […]
Strange week
The past week has been full on and utterly exhausting. What with hanging the Trafalgar show at Prettys and the scary incident of a 24 year old fellow student working on the hang suffering a stroke, fitting in a 6 hour shooting day for Edgelands, researching for degree project and dissertation I feel wrung out. […]
Edgelands continued
Yesterday saw a full on 6 hours of shooting on large and medium format film. Plenty of Portra 160, 400 and Ektar in the can waiting to be processed. These are HP5+
More edgelands photographs
My degree project continues. These are some more emerging content for my edit on being just outside or in-between AONBs The fly-tipping is an interesting one in that I was on the team that introduced Landfill Tax. My role as Business Analyst on that project saw beyond the revenue take and green aspirations at the […]