Today has been a full on day. It started with emptying Mrs O’s mum’s effects from her room at the care home. It seemed rather weird given that we rolled up in the same car that I used to take her in on that dreadfully wet December evening. All she had with her that night […]
That was a week that was…
Yes, a little play on words I know but the week has been a weird one. On Sunday last week I realised that Mrs O’s mum was travelling backwards in time far quicker than in the previous 30 months of her incarceration in the prison of dementia. I had become increasing dull following recent visits […]
Re-visiting Edgelands and missing treacle tart
This morning Mrs O and I went over to the Museum of East Anglian Life to see the exhibition on the first full day it was open to the public. I have virtually lived the exhibition since I completed the maquette with scale images but Mrs O was far too busy on the PV to […]
Edgelands Exhibition – all crated up
All the work is now ready and crated up for transfer to The Museum of East Anglian Life. Now that the artwork is done it is final editing of museum catalogues, labels etc. If anyone ever thought that we artists just make pictures all day then let this dissuade you. The rather excellent ‘What do […]
Edgelands – The Exhibition
Many of my regular readers will have followed my feverish production of new images for my series ‘Edgelands’. I began this series in late September 2013 as my degree project and have extended it beyond my initial capture area to include other interfaces between urban and rural landscapes in the county of Suffolk. For some […]
A very busy week making new Edgelands images
It has been frenetic this week. After the lows of last week, sitting indoors with a woolly hat on with the heating on – never a good look says Mrs O, I have had to catch up on slipped deliverables for the extended shoot of Edgelands. One morning spent frozen to the bone and then […]
I should have been out before sunrise today
I study the weather charts intensely to try and select optimum conditions for making my Edgelands work. This week has had some perfect conditions but circumstance or me being a bit dull or under the weather has meant missed opportunities. Friday presented perfect lavender grey clouds that render perfectly in Kodak Portra emulsion but I […]
Of times past
One of the locations I noted for my Edgelands series last year came too late for my degree project work. We had taken a walk along the river at Orford and cut through a field of Oil Seed Rape in full bloom. At one time of day I would have reacted quite badly to the […]
More test results
This post is aimed at people interested in the resolving power of a prime lens coupled with a high pixel count sensor. Nikon D810 Nikkor 50mm AFD 1.4 Ipswich Borough Council have recently agreed to buy the Sproughton Sugar Beet site. For years, these silos have been a symbol of agricultural cum manufacturing business particular […]
RPS Book Exhibition 2014 – Edgelands shortlisted
Making photo books was a big thing at university. Tutors were pushing all the time for books to be made and several were. I ventured into the realms of a handmade, albeit bound by a proper book binder, book at considerable cost but with individually hinged pages, pages that I had printed myself. I also […]