All of a sudden we have gone from Arctic conditions to typical British summer weather in about 48 hours. The wind is still from the North but what blue skies we get with a polar blast? The clarity of the skies and the blueness is something I tune into at this time of year before […]
PhotoEast and Contradictions
PhotoEast opened today. It is primarily based on and in the environs of the Wet Dock in Ipswich – signature setting for the long term CONTRADICTIONS documentary based on the ever changing aspects of the docklands of the Orwell. Bill Jackson is running sessions at The Cut in Halesworth. If you have dog, get down […]
It does not have to be sharp
I am a fussy myopic, or at least that is what an optometrist told me back in the 80’s. Apparently, according to him people with my eye condition are more likely to wear the coating off their lenses through obsessive cleaning in the quest for pin sharp resolution. Long-sighted people, he said, could get away […]
Southwold distractions and Photoeast
Last week Mrs O and I spent another week in Southwold. We like to go when the grockles are not there and even though we are visitors, I don’t class ourselves as grockles as we live in the county and this is just another of our many resorts. I had hoped to photograph the cliffs […]
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 […]
I like to see connections
Whenever I photograph subjects there is always a reason why. The initial draw is one thing but as I look more at what drew me into the picture I begin to see differently and more often than not I see connections no matter how tenuous they may seem. With this image, it was the red […]
The mists of time
Misty mornings like today have been like hen’s teeth this winter. My mind was half-cocked this morning waiting for the alarm to go at 05:00 and the forecast was spot on. Bitterly cold and fog on the way. How time flies at this time of year. Getting up at this time last week was adequate […]
Blown away
This week has been very busy already. After a 15 hour working day yesterday starting at 0445, I had a lie in today until 0500. For the first time in weeks we had a dramatic drop in temperature forecast with light winds (below 10knots). I was so excited I could hardly get to sleep. I […]
Tourist traps
Last week I happened upon an improbable projected image of Bamburgh Castle at dusk. Images of this castle must be one of the most reproduced or emulated ever, especially for the front cover of photography magazines. Indeed, I blogged about the very phenomenon of a sea of tripods nestled in the rocks at Budle point […]
It never ceases to amaze me
In my quest to identify new locations and vantage points for Edgelands imagery, I am becoming numb as to what people through over hedges or dump in ditches. I doubt this bracken patch was good for a picnic. That said, I can recall days under canvas back in the early 60’s when we stuffed bracken […]