On Thursday 31st March the first solo Edgelands show at the Museum of East Anglian Life comes to an end. I have been asked to be in attendance from 1400 on Thursday to greet the last visitors to the show as part of a closing view. Later on I shall be showing guests of the […]
Blue on blue
Yes, more new Edgelands images, although the first is an opportunistic shot at the tail end of the shoot for the day. Everything on this site is re-cycled or processed to the point of limiting what goes off site. On each visit in the afternoon or early evening I have witnessed the sights and ominous […]
Generating new Edgelands images
I’ve been busy this week on all sorts of fronts, Ipswich, Ashford and London and burning the candle processing 5 more rolls of Kodak Portra 400 developed by Peak Imaging. When I first got access to Muntons site I was drawn to this emergency generator. I loved the faded blue paint, and doesn’t blue fade. […]
…and a few minutes more
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pulling more information out of Portra film
I have been conducting more tests on old favourites. Here is an example of a scene that can no longer be seen like this. I need to get down there with the large format cameras and see what I can capture without getting flattened by a dumper truck. Same negative two different scanners. Without […]
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival & a potential new location for Alec Soth
On Trafalgar Day, also Mrs O’s birthday, dry rot discovery day, graduation day and now Swaffham Visual Arts Festival day I motored up to Swaffham with Mrs O through Thetford Forest. It was a wonderfully bleak drive through persistent drizzle that made for stunning autumnal colours. These days are rare and to be cherished. We […]
Morning has broken
I had a request for a close up of one of the Mimosa flowers so after the winds of the last few days, the forecast was set right for dawn today with sub 3mph winds and what a dawn it was too. I felt that tremble as blood and emotions coursed through my veins at […]
A Sheriff and Peers peering at Edgelands
Last night I attended a special PV for trustees of the Museum of East Anglian Life. The event had been scheduled separately to the opening PV on account of the huge positive response to invitations to the exhibition. Lisa Harris and I discussed possible dates weeks ago and we both thought that leaving a gap […]