I have watched the weather forecasts with glee over this past week seeing that today would have a high sitting over us therefore perfect windless conditions to get the large format cameras out. The dark slides were loaded up yesterday and it was an early bedtime to make sure I was up at 0530 and […]
Whilst revellers slept a sign was seen in the East
I am not one for NYE. I usually get woken up at midnight when more fireworks go off. This is less of an issue these days since Sam went to the great kennel in the sky. He was not one for unexpected bangs in the middle of the night unlike Bilbo who could be found […]
East of Greenwich
The weather of late has been a bit grim to say the least but thankfully not as grim as it has been up North. Years of misunderstanding of upland management and rivers management coupled with reactionary government have conspired with, it has to be said, global warming to exacerbate non-seasonal deluges of precipitation that ought […]
Dogs at Bamburgh
A couple of dog pictures from Bamburgh beach. What is it with the craziness of Spaniels? Always running and endless energy? Labradors and water go together. We kept a lab cross for 14 years. Bilbo was an absolute lummox of a dog as only a Labrador can be. Water of any kind was a magnet. […]
Budle Point – apart from the pack
Following on from my last post, when faced with the hoardes of photographers waiting on the rocks at Bamburgh I turned my attention to the Trinity House structure and Budle Point. Much as I like contre-jour this was going to be a full on sunrise with little or no chance of decent sky colour. There […]
I am not a pack animal
I have been taking a break this past week. I knew where we were going and also that it would be more or less radio silence but I was surprised at the almost total lack of service from Vodafone which was refreshing but I could not even text or call Mrs O whilst I went […]
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 […]
VJ Day, a Mimosa tree and Cattawade
It is a strange thing how our paths cross and our life stories intertwine. Little did I know that being requested to make an image of a Mimosa tree in all it’s tutu-like splendour, would I find a connection to Edgelands. I was asked to make this image by an ex-colleague of Mrs O who […]
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 […]
Digital visit to an Edgelands site
Last December I took delivery of a larger pixel density digital camera. On of the first things I did with it was to re-visit the Sproughton site of my 5 very large C-types in the current Edgelands exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life. The detail in this image is very good indeed and […]