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 […]
Maggi Hambling CBE
Today was a good day. I spent the morning updating the web engines for TTG and then sauntered into UCS for a fund raising meeting with Mel Belton and others followed by a tutorial then a question and answer session with Maggi Hambling CBE – most definately not OBE as reported in the Telegraph. She […]
Self Published Books – Edgelands
I have used Blurb several times now to create books and the products are very good indeed. Every time I make one though I know I can make it better. I suppose it is just like making the photographs in the first place, one has to do it to the point unconscious competence. Edgelands by […]
High Tension Shoot
I have never been keen on high tension power lines draping over built up areas and there has been quite a number of reports over the years regarding the affect they have on the poor souls domiciled beneath them. Well, today I got a taster of what it is like. After 22 days of fruitless […]
Lux Locus
This is the moniker for our BA(Hons) Photography degree shows this coming June. I helped come up with the name by running a creative thinking session with some of my fellow students following the ‘equals = ephemera’ artist-in-residence event that we had in Ipswich Town Hall last September. This was put to a vote along […]
Recovered daffodils
The demonstration yesterday was a resounding success with money being donated to the Lux Locus Degree Show following my interactive teaching session at UCS. Another unique image from Polaroid type film – second generation!
Bleaching Polaroid type instant film
Tomorrow, I shall be demonstrating the recovery of negatives from Fuji 100C – Polaroid type instant film – to fellow students at UCS. All I need is a handful of saved Fuji 100C ‘chemistry part’ of the instant film sandwich , a bottle of bleach ,masking tape, latex gloves, sheet of glass and a fitch […]
Daft idea trying to shoot large format in this weather
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. […]
January – a washout?
So January 2014 was the wettest for 250 years. I can honestly say from a selfish perspective that is no bad thing in that I knuckled down to crafting and drafting my dissertation that is now hovering around an acceptable 9500 words. I don’t seem to mind researching and writing whilst the wind and rain […]
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 […]