From Canterbury to Bury St Edmunds in a week. Two hugely important locations in their day. A week ago today I studied the weather charts and decided that office work could go and wait. I needed to get out and make more work for the series ‘Edgelands’. Storm force winds and rain do not not […]
More film back from the lab and new pieces from the UCS Fine Art Auction
I have been steadily working through my stock of Portra 160 and called into the Kodak Pro lab today to collect the latest batch. Every time I pick up my film it is like the very first time I saw a print emerge in a tray as a child. I have never lost, nor will […]
Today I went back to where it all started
The forecast was good for this morning so I was up and out a few minutes before sunrise. I used to hate the clocks going forward when I was on a regular commute as slipping back into darkness was always a let down. Now though, I relish the extra shooting time for my early morning […]
Edgelands – The Exhibition
Many of my regular readers will have followed my feverish production of new images for my series ‘Edgelands’. I began this series in late September 2013 as my degree project and have extended it beyond my initial capture area to include other interfaces between urban and rural landscapes in the county of Suffolk. For some […]
A very busy week making new Edgelands images
It has been frenetic this week. After the lows of last week, sitting indoors with a woolly hat on with the heating on – never a good look says Mrs O, I have had to catch up on slipped deliverables for the extended shoot of Edgelands. One morning spent frozen to the bone and then […]
Location, location, location
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Abbot’s and cake
The weather this morning was just about right for a few large format images at one of my new locations. The light was flatter than I expected but hey-ho, I’ll just have to wait for the Portra to get to the lab and back. I snook the D810 out with me and whilst the tripod […]
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 […]