One of the locations I noted for my Edgelands series last year came too late for my degree project work. We had taken a walk along the river at Orford and cut through a field of Oil Seed Rape in full bloom. At one time of day I would have reacted quite badly to the […]
Abbot’s and cake
The weather this morning was just about right for a few large format images at one of my new locations. The light was flatter than I expected but hey-ho, I’ll just have to wait for the Portra to get to the lab and back. I snook the D810 out with me and whilst the tripod […]
New Edgelands locations
It has been a busy week. The two shoot-worthy days were Sunday and Tuesday. Large and medium format negatives have yielded good results at the three new Edgelands locations. I’ve posted selected images to the Edgelands galleries but these medium format images are from Tuesday morning and from two affluent areas of Suffolk. It is […]
Natural reclamation
As of this past week, Edgelands has moved up a gear. Various impediments to progressing the extended shoot have now been overcome and a weather window has permitted a second visit to a new location identified last November. The forecast for this morning was spot on or indeed in reality better than spot on. I […]
No smoke without fire
I was out in my quest for new Edgelands locations yesterday morning. Was it cold or not? I tagged some places but they need to be a Sunday morning job on account of traffic and other issues. Much of this fishing lake was frozen. I’m not sure what was cooking but this image makes me […]
Edgelands – a Stowmarket excursion
After yesterday’s glorious dawn, today is somewhat dull, grey, cold and damp. Today will be about mainly working indoors. I have broken out of Ipswich and Shotley Peninsula in my quest for more Edgelands locations. There are a number of locations I have found around Stowmarket but access to the right viewpoint at my preferred […]
The Northern Fringe
There is an old adage within photography and that is if you do not record something within six months of arriving in a place then it will have changed. This view on the Northern Fringe of Ipswich is subject to contentious planning change and the vista seen here might no longer be on account of […]
Actions speak louder than words
I am continuing to shoot locations for my extended body of work ‘Edgelands’. Most if not all of the sites that I find to photograph have had their post-war industrial function erased leaving just scars in the landscape yet somehow nature prevails. Such is the way of the natural world. What amazes me is the […]
Tooks taken over
When I first came to live in Suffolk one of the first things to see on entering Ipswich from the West, was the Tooks bakery. It was a large rambling site of factory sheds and delivery lorries. One of Mrs O’s uncles was a director there so as we passed by it I’d often hear […]
Waste not want not
I watched a BBC ‘World About Us’ documentary this morning. Simon Robinson, a PhD student of photography tweeted the link and as I studied the author and presenter as part of my degree project work I’ll share it also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL7-LqQhjE This film was shown in July 1975 , produced by the BBC in Bristol as […]