I am shooting medium and large format images for my degree project. I am so glad that I got off to a good start back in the early autumn as just lately it has been a washout although nothing like the trauma suffered by people in the West Country and now the Thames Valley. […]
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 […]
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+
Wrong side of the track 2………….
Today has been a whirlwind of a day. Truly and most utterly inclement weather this morning saw a delayed start to UCS work with renewing AOP membership, ordering even more film (where does it all go?) and then calling Sam Mellish of ‘Roadside Britain’ fame to ask if he could help out with our degree […]
Wrong side of the track
I am working on my degree project. My aim is to subvert the common notion of what is beautiful in the landscape. For the most part many of us see municipal planting schemes and the relative mundane and anodyne planting schemes proffered by architects, highways engineers and town and country planners. Often, just a stones […]
AONB Brantham revisted
The lull in the weather saw me up well before dawn with a boot full of large format film, Ektar, Portra, HP5+, FP4+ and a gaggle of cameras. Anyway some results from a busy day. This HP5+ was rated at ISO 320 and tray developed in ID11. I’ll revisit the MOD54 and try again as […]
Inspiration kicks in – Genesis Suffolk Style
So far this term, all 3 weeks of it, I have been struggling to juggle my balls and spin my plates. I always knew that this year would be the hardest academically speaking but somehow the sheer scale and also the dependency on other people to deliver products on time and to budget in an […]
Degree project stalled by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
At the beginning of July I visited the St Clements site in Ipswich with a view to seeing it as a potential source of photographic study for my final degree project. Having got no answer from the estates management office the route to which forced me to drive around the whole site to travel the […]
Latest Large format landscape & portraits out of the can
The technician at UCS had a busy Wednesday last week whilst I was attending the Agile Business Conference in London. I had queued up 22 5×4 negatives plus countless rolls of 220, 120 and 35mm films over the last month and it has taken a weekend interspersed with research work to process them. Some of […]
It was 40 years ago today…..
Scary moment this morning. My mind wandered back to this day 40 years ago when I set off to full time employment as a very junior Civil Servant ostensibly to while away a year being paid whilst I re-sat my failed A-levels. The world was such a different place in those days. Liverpool was still […]