Where did last week go? Monday saw me and two other reprobates being photographed by renowned local photographer Chris Myhill. Chris had come to our rescue and made group and single portraits of us for our forthcoming exhibition – Contradictions Note the haircut. I had it freshly done for the shoot which was just as […]
Foggy and Clegg take lunch somewhere in Suffolk
It was a long day yesterday. I’m taking part in a longish project documenting the docklands of the Orwell with a number of of other photographers, commercial, professional and amateur. Ipswich wet dock has been recorded since the dawn of photography and this weekend saw the increasingly popular Ipswich Maritime Festival take place with thousands […]
Yesterday my heart strings got plucked
Yesterday saw the funeral take place for Mrs O’s mum. So much has happened in these last three weeks but this was the big event. I went out early on the bike and the morning light was truly beautiful. It was a familiar route but I seemed to see things differently. The light was very […]
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 […]
Decades come and go
I stayed up late last night, way past my bedtime to see out my 6th decade. I used to play golf before I went off to UCS to study photography and I still find the spring lushness and azaleas of Augusta National awe inspiring. So Mrs O elected to knit and watch telly in her […]
I don’t often take taxis….
Of course I have taken taxis over the years. To and from termini with bags as I scurried here and there on work assignments but not normally in a social context. Last night we got the dreaded call from the care home that Mrs O’s mother was being taken into A&E by ambulance. This was […]
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 […]
Millstream, Kingfisher, Constable and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
I watched the revelation on TV a few weeks ago about the discovery by a conservator of a Kingfisher in Constable’s Millstream. I was lucky enough to have helped wrap this stretcher in protective blankets before it went off for forensic examination in 2013. Before it went I archived the image in the Wolsey Art […]
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 […]
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 […]