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 […]
Fish finger sandwich – Southwold style
Yesterday, the sun shone, just as it is today. Often on an Winter’s day when we get a high sitting over us and we happen to be not compelled to work, we will head up the coast to Southwold. We last went there on New Year’s Eve. I forgot that it was half-term until we […]
I should have been out before sunrise today
I study the weather charts intensely to try and select optimum conditions for making my Edgelands work. This week has had some perfect conditions but circumstance or me being a bit dull or under the weather has meant missed opportunities. Friday presented perfect lavender grey clouds that render perfectly in Kodak Portra emulsion but I […]
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 […]
Subjective colour – CSCL Globe
I thought better of heading down to Felixstowe this morning. I really did not want my gear ending up in the North Sea unlike my fellow photographer in the last post. The wind had been quite gusty overnight but nothing like the Outer Hebrides. What an awful Shipping Forecast this morning. I did experiment with […]
CSCL Globe before daybreak
The weather yesterday afternoon, when I stumbled upon CSCL Globe berthed at Landguard with half the population of Suffolk blocking Viewpoint Road was dire. It is as equally if not more dire as I write this post today. I got a good vantage point yesterday from the nature reserve with the elevated position overlooking the […]
Largest ship in the world berths at Felixstowe
I went on a recce this afternoon along the Eastern edges of Ipswich looking for Edgelands sites. It was grim in terms of weather and nothing was stimulating my photography buds so I hoofed it down to Felixstowe to see if anything was in at Landguard. Well, I’ve never seen so much traffic. I was […]
Dog waste
I was out early this morning, an hour before daybreak but it was such a dark morning compared to yesterday which was impossibly bright. The temperature was up by at least 6 or 8 degrees. Such is Winter in temperate climes. I checked out the shipping movements for the dock and tide times and it […]
Testing times
It seems as if disasters are all around us, a passenger jet down in the sea in the Phillipines, a SAAB blown off a runway in Stornoway, a three legged Jumbo jet landing at Gatwick, two vessels cast adrift with refugees from Syria in the Med (patrolled by the Icelandic Border patrol – work that […]
I used to think of Southwold as being apolitical – a blot on the landscape changed that yesterday
Yesterday the sun shone on a bitterly cold East Anglian landscape despite the Southerly direction of the light breeze. Sunny days in Winter are an automatic draw in our household to romp up the coast to Southwold. I had half a mind as to what to expect as regards grockles but my, I have never […]