All of a sudden we have gone from Arctic conditions to typical British summer weather in about 48 hours. The wind is still from the North but what blue skies we get with a polar blast? The clarity of the skies and the blueness is something I tune into at this time of year before […]
CONTRADICTIONS OV – What a week
Feast and famine! Everything around East Anglia for the last week has been all about photography. The RPS East Anglia Contemporary Group opened their show at Thornham the morning after the PV for PhotoEast. Earlier in the week the graduates from UCS BA(Hons) Photography had their show – also part of PhotoEast but I had […]
PhotoEast and Contradictions
PhotoEast opened today. It is primarily based on and in the environs of the Wet Dock in Ipswich – signature setting for the long term CONTRADICTIONS documentary based on the ever changing aspects of the docklands of the Orwell. Bill Jackson is running sessions at The Cut in Halesworth. If you have dog, get down […]
It does not have to be sharp
I am a fussy myopic, or at least that is what an optometrist told me back in the 80’s. Apparently, according to him people with my eye condition are more likely to wear the coating off their lenses through obsessive cleaning in the quest for pin sharp resolution. Long-sighted people, he said, could get away […]
Southwold distractions and Photoeast
Last week Mrs O and I spent another week in Southwold. We like to go when the grockles are not there and even though we are visitors, I don’t class ourselves as grockles as we live in the county and this is just another of our many resorts. I had hoped to photograph the cliffs […]
The firmament, Chernobyl and Selsey Herb & Goat farm
Scary stuff. Listening to the wireless this morning having been woken before dawn to the sound of sleet sliding down the windows I was scared witless by the fact that the Chernobyl disaster was 30 years ago. Forget the fact that I have forgotten most of what has happened in between, it was the fact […]
There’s nothing like a change of focus to get the creativity juices flowing
Sometimes I force myself to look at something other than my ongoing long term projects. I do this to ensure I look at and see other things. It also tests my knowledge and skills using various cameras and processing techniques. Only last night I saw two Short Eared Owls quartering at dusk and that was […]
Gary Player & Kingfisher statistics
I’m often asked how I manage to capture images of Kingfishers. Most often, I respond by saying that I understand their behaviour and likely habitat and therefore I can anticipate likely sightings. Sightings are always, or nearly always preceded by an aural observation. Then, Golf comes into play, inasmuch as the famous statement attributed to […]
The female of the species is more reliable
My quest this week for Kingfisher images has not been as fruitful as in other years. I admit I might be two weeks earlier than last year but there is a definite drop in numbers and this was a mild if not warm winter. I don’t know if this is a common statistic across the […]
Other feathered things
Some days just sighting a Kingfisher is enough and somehow I know if the number is likely to be up with capturing one with the camera. Today was one such day with a sighting 30 minutes into an 8 hour trek then no more. The constant status of ‘Blue Alert’ that I immerse myself in […]