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 […]
Of times past
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is beauty?
I am making work for the East Anglian Contemporary Group of the RPS. The project is on the Wet Dock and environs in Ipswich. Over the last month or so I have been looking out for aspects of the dock that would make for a contemporary series of images and I discovered this old lady […]
The Jury’s out
I have not blogged much over the last two weeks as I have been on enforced jury service. I used to be exempt from sitting owing to previous employment but now anything goes. It was a real eye-opener on many levels. The first is the sheer amount of money and time wasted by poorly prepared […]