Personal Notebook and Photographic Journal
A few updates, some recent, some distant and which should have probably been their own distinct entry, but I've fallen very behind in my writing. My photography will always come first, and this affects periphery projects like my blog here, as well as other publications I write for. I think it was put best by... Continue Reading →
I started this day doing general street work, and headed from Oxford Circus to Elephant and Castle late in the day to photograph what I thought was just a small protest at the shopping centre. What I didn't realise was that this was actually the last day before the Elephant and Castle shopping centre would... Continue Reading →
Today I photographed a local youth group called Prospex, who had noticed the amount of trash in the canal basin during a recent excursion, and who wanted to go out and clean some of it up.I shot from 5pm onwards until just before 7pm, just as the light started to die. I'm happy with some... Continue Reading →
Darkroom printing individual images has been at the back of my mind for a while - one of my goals is to stockpile sellable prints in order to have something worthwhile to market in the event of another lockdown/second wave of the pandemic situation. Sadly the darkroom I printed at last year closed down, so... Continue Reading →
Printing my work has become more and more of a pressing option for me, partially as a result of having less to shoot due to the restrictions of working during a pandemic. Retrospection and introspection have led me towards a deeply critical eye over the work I've produced over the last few years. https://i.imgur.com/AaGMDdl.jpg I've... Continue Reading →
I didn't manage to revisit the Boat Club yesterday as I said I might in my previous blog entry, but I did manage to spend this afternoon there. My attention was mostly on the cleaning process for the boats and oars, which are sprayed down with disinfectant between sessions. I stayed around for the start... Continue Reading →
Today I photographed the local boat club, as they held their first sessions back after the recent pandemic lockdown. The groups were small, and respected the need to keep distant, which looked like an easier task when in boats than when pedestrian.Jan at the boating club actually got in touch with me back in April... Continue Reading →
Street portraiture isn't really something I put a lot of time into these days, but I'll always try and grab a frame if a character stands out as particularly interesting. I also started to work more on portraits featuring more than one character at a time, as well as trying to find moments which show... Continue Reading →
