Last week we were away. Mrs O had booked us into a holiday let in Southwold. In a sense, it was winding back three and a half years to September 2011 when we holidayed there but I was in Freshers week and only kipped there and had my tea most nights (I had to stay […]
On fossil beach
Of late, I have been examining and exploring the fossil beach at Easton Bavents. It is another form of Edgelands but totally outwith that series. As is so with much of my photography, I get drawn to something by colour, shape, texture or whatever and then all sorts of alchemy takes place with projects within […]
Lightning does not strike twice
Last night a sudden brief but blindingly bright and fleeting light illuminated the sky from behind us. I peered out of the window. There was nothing to see. Some while later I decided to see if the day’s storm clouds had cleared the night skies for some more experimental low light photography. I then discovered […]
Wondering at the firmament
In a week of mass natural destruction and death, state execution and civil murder, I gazed up into the night sky last night and wondered at just how small we are in the scale of things. I could see Ursa Major clearly with my naked (but corrected) eyesight. I was not prepared for the detail […]
Photography and time
All photography is about time.Time that is captured in a fraction of a second and once the latent image is developed in chemistry or processed by an in-camera chip, it is a matter of history. Recently, I ventured along the cliffs at Easton Bavents at beach level. I was aware of sacrifical erosion along our […]
The kindness of other artists
Yesterday was a typically grim Easter Saturday. The afternoon brightened up somewhat not least of which was down to another opening of a new monthly exhibition at The Freudian Sheep . I got to know one of the proprietors whilst at UCS. Mossy was a Fine Art student, I a photography student. Since he and […]
Fish suppers
Mrs O and I do not often have a fish supper. Mostly, when we both happen to have the same day off and the sun is shining for instance, we might take a trip up the coast to Aldeburgh to scoff fish and chips on the sea wall by the Martello Tower. Last week we […]
Teased, tormented, transfixed. A surfeit of Alcedo Atthis
What a week this has been for Alcedo Atthis. Many readers will know of my predilection with these small, skittish and utterly charming birds. One of my theories in getting close enough to photograph them is to use a boat especially on waters where the birds are used to boats. The River Bure must at […]
More film back from the lab and new pieces from the UCS Fine Art Auction
I have been steadily working through my stock of Portra 160 and called into the Kodak Pro lab today to collect the latest batch. Every time I pick up my film it is like the very first time I saw a print emerge in a tray as a child. I have never lost, nor will […]
Farms and Chernobyl
I did not step foot outside of the house yesterday but made up for it this morning. I popped out for a short walk at 0700 as shooting for the RPS Docklands project has been on the back burner of late as Edgelands has nosed it out. I got home at 0945 and the D810 […]