Let’s be fair about this, the weather of late has been grim, just grim. Temperatures and isobars are all over the place. In desperation to get some medium and large format work done I got out on site late yesterday afternoon about an hour before sunset. I am starting to make new work based on […]
Pastures new
Despite the grim weather of late I am actively seeking pastures new for the extended shooting of Edgelands. Back in the summer I met Kate Jackson at Smith’s Row in Bury St Edmunds and we found that we had something in common in our approach to making bodies of work. Her abstract brutalism paintings are […]
Bitterly cold, bitterly disappointed
I have watched the weather forecasts with glee over this past week seeing that today would have a high sitting over us therefore perfect windless conditions to get the large format cameras out. The dark slides were loaded up yesterday and it was an early bedtime to make sure I was up at 0530 and […]
Whilst revellers slept a sign was seen in the East
I am not one for NYE. I usually get woken up at midnight when more fireworks go off. This is less of an issue these days since Sam went to the great kennel in the sky. He was not one for unexpected bangs in the middle of the night unlike Bilbo who could be found […]
Dogs at Bamburgh
A couple of dog pictures from Bamburgh beach. What is it with the craziness of Spaniels? Always running and endless energy? Labradors and water go together. We kept a lab cross for 14 years. Bilbo was an absolute lummox of a dog as only a Labrador can be. Water of any kind was a magnet. […]
Budle Point – apart from the pack
Following on from my last post, when faced with the hoardes of photographers waiting on the rocks at Bamburgh I turned my attention to the Trinity House structure and Budle Point. Much as I like contre-jour this was going to be a full on sunrise with little or no chance of decent sky colour. There […]
I am not a pack animal
I have been taking a break this past week. I knew where we were going and also that it would be more or less radio silence but I was surprised at the almost total lack of service from Vodafone which was refreshing but I could not even text or call Mrs O whilst I went […]
Autumn seems to have arrived a tad early
This week has been full on already. Monday was a plumbing day. I have learned over the years not to start such jobs on a Sunday as there is always some gizmo or part that requires a trip to a proper plumbers merchant. We lasted all of last winter with a dodgy radiator valve in […]
Getting on with other work
The last year has been crazy getting Edgelands up and onto a wall and the last week has been even crazier but life and work go on. I’m looking at rebuilding this site so I started experimenting with new designs last week. It will take a while to work out what works best but I […]
Digital visit to an Edgelands site
Last December I took delivery of a larger pixel density digital camera. On of the first things I did with it was to re-visit the Sproughton site of my 5 very large C-types in the current Edgelands exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life. The detail in this image is very good indeed and […]