I have been using products from the Turning Gate for quite a few years now. It all started with my need to project images at a very rare wedding shoot. I only did that shoot as a favour but it led me to changing my working practices from what I thought was best to something […]
What’s in a name?
I was up in town on Monday, you will have read about that earlier with my Saul Leiter references but with the passage of time and the motion and orbits of the firmament moving rapidly on I could not help but notice how much lighter it was at ‘Pink Pansy’ compared to a month ago […]
Time travel
Last Sunday afternoon I had to trek across country for work. Normally I travel into London and out when going to Birmingham but with all the disruption we face every weekend on the Norwich to London line whilst work goes on at Shenfield for Cross Rail, the only option was cross country through the Fens. […]
Light bulb moment
It dawned on me today as I tramped around the Wet Dock making reference images in advance of a weekend of waterfront festivities that yet another subtle change had taken place during a week that had seen me working at a different university. Of course I knew it was coming, but it was not the […]
All change please all change. This bus is going no further
As is her want on election nights and as it turns out referenda nights, Mrs O woke me in the smallish hours padding back into the bedroom from her work-room. I was already semi-alert on account of the dawn chorus. That is something I never fail to marvel at, after a storm or the end […]
Anywhere and Everywhere and the re-emergence of prostitutes on the street
Yesterday afternoon and evening was exceedingly long. I was due to attend the Rooftop Collective at Metro Imaging so I went up early to check out Anywhere and Everywhere – the UCS BA(Hons) Photography Lolondon variant of their degree show. As with last year’s group they used Hoxton Arches, in Hoxton of all places. Such […]
New website using Backlight
For some while now, since 2012 in fact, I have been using the Turning Gate Plugins for Lightroom to create my photo site and album pages. It has to be said that even with all the functionality that Matt and Ben built into these plugins, one had to be at the interface on a regular […]
Bill Brandt’s words of wisdom as pertinent today as when he uttered them
Mrs O and I take the Guardian of a weekend along with a Murdoch paper. It is all about balance. I like the Review section of the Guardian particularly and it takes me a week to read it mainly as I munch through my toast and quaff a pot full of espresso. Anyway yesterday morning […]
The firmament, Chernobyl and Selsey Herb & Goat farm
Scary stuff. Listening to the wireless this morning having been woken before dawn to the sound of sleet sliding down the windows I was scared witless by the fact that the Chernobyl disaster was 30 years ago. Forget the fact that I have forgotten most of what has happened in between, it was the fact […]
The difference between auctions and taste (apologies to Keith Arnatt)
There comes a time when we all resort to an auction of some kind, be that to buy something or sell something. I am minded of the time when Mrs O’s mother had been incarcerated into a secure dementia care home and it was up to Mrs O and her brother to dispose of her […]