I had to go into UCS today for a meeting so I took advantage of the vast and empty Fusion Lab to lay out 75 printed medium format images from the last edit of the series. This time last year Lux Locus were busy preparing to hang a pre-degree show exhibition in Ipswich Town Hall […]
Edgelands – Bury St Edmunds
From Canterbury to Bury St Edmunds in a week. Two hugely important locations in their day. A week ago today I studied the weather charts and decided that office work could go and wait. I needed to get out and make more work for the series ‘Edgelands’. Storm force winds and rain do not not […]
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 […]
Today I went back to where it all started
The forecast was good for this morning so I was up and out a few minutes before sunrise. I used to hate the clocks going forward when I was on a regular commute as slipping back into darkness was always a let down. Now though, I relish the extra shooting time for my early morning […]
Edgelands – The Exhibition
Many of my regular readers will have followed my feverish production of new images for my series ‘Edgelands’. I began this series in late September 2013 as my degree project and have extended it beyond my initial capture area to include other interfaces between urban and rural landscapes in the county of Suffolk. For some […]
A very busy week making new Edgelands images
It has been frenetic this week. After the lows of last week, sitting indoors with a woolly hat on with the heating on – never a good look says Mrs O, I have had to catch up on slipped deliverables for the extended shoot of Edgelands. One morning spent frozen to the bone and then […]
Location, location, location
After the foray up the coast to Southwold on Tuesday it was back to making work yesterday morning and today. I was up and out 1 hour 15 minutes before sunrise yesterday and what a sunrise it was. I have said this before, I never tire of seeing a sunrise. It is the most magical […]
Plan to fail
Yesterday was a long day. I as up at 0430 to hoof it down to Ashford. In some ways I was glad of the excuse to let the train take the strain especially after ruining the tyre on Monday. I do not like driving with a space saver other than back and forth to the […]
Pot luck on my shoot today – light too flat and a flat tyre to boot.
I was up and out before the Larks this morning. The high pressure system was shouting large format photography. A left-right choice in Ipswich saw me heading over to Orford to see if the light and lack of wind would be suitable for a large format image of the caravan and sheds plus small boats […]
I should have been out before sunrise today
I study the weather charts intensely to try and select optimum conditions for making my Edgelands work. This week has had some perfect conditions but circumstance or me being a bit dull or under the weather has meant missed opportunities. Friday presented perfect lavender grey clouds that render perfectly in Kodak Portra emulsion but I […]