A few extras from yesterday. Still ploughing through the medium format negatives. An extra large format. All un-spotted as yet. No point doing that if I am going to scan again at higher resolution. Perhaps my favourite medium format of the site so far. The juxtaposition of the commercial silos holding barley from the vast […]
4 minute rule
Over the last year I have often been asked about how and when I make my large format images. Often as not I’ll say that sometimes I’m lucky to get 4 minutes of light at the right wavelength on the right day. Of late, and very late that is for me in my shooting season, […]
Where did February go?
‘strewth, I cannot believe we are in March already. Today is grim, just like so many days so far this winter, grim, wet and windy, not a good day for dogs, but a good day to check over gear inside and ruminate at the announcement of the passing of yet another great product – Fuji […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blink and you will miss it
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 […]
All systems go
Two days at the same site could not be so different. Following on from my trudge through the mud of the Gipping Valley path the other day making reference shots for a new Edgelands subject I weighed up the logistics of getting my gear into place to make the images I have in my mind’s […]
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 […]