Panning
17 December 2024
Spotted on an evening photo walk run by Campkins in Cambridge intended to capture Christmas Lights, this is the entrance of the Le Crueset shop. The doorway holds a display of cooking pot lids lit from behind. This shot was a 4 second exposure captured while moving the zoom ring on the lens.
Uncooperative
6 December 2024
An idea I had a while ago, but took a while to get around to.
Originally I’d visualised just the one ‘sulking’ Gerbera, but adding a straight one made the composition much better.
The joke is maybe a bit strained since you need to read the title and the inscription on the bottle to make any sense of it. Otherwise it’s just a very basic still life.
I think it is going to look better as a print.
Tivoli Gardens
25 November 2024
On a Christmassy visit to Copenhagen the weather was not so much seasonally snowy, more often just damp and chilly.
This was brightened by the twinkly lights of Tivoli Gardens, and copious measures of glögg and winter beer.
Leake Street
4 November 2024
A visit to Leake Street, Waterloo at Halloween yielded some good photo opportunities last week.
Leake Street is a pedestrianised tunnel under the railway lines entirely given over to graffiti artists to exhibit their work.
Capitalism
27 October 2024
Once upon a time the air was free. Not any more.
The Cemetery
16 September 2024
A scene from Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, a full and decaying Victorian cemetery. Because of this it’s a fascinating gothic place to photograph wildlife and crumbling monuments.
During a busy 3 hours, a group of us learned how to set our cameras up for in-camera monochrome picture taking. I visited never before seen parts of my camera’s menu system guided by Zara.
This shot was a favourite, but I have been back to the raw file and spent time post-processing to get this sepia result.
Azariah
6 September 2024
This fearsome yet vulnerable face belongs to a life-sized cyborg bust called Azariah. It was made by Florian Carminati, and it is displayed in the Naia Museum in Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany.
The museum / gallery has an amazing collection of sci-fi and fantasy inspired objects and illustrations.
Because It's There
7 August 2024
I’ve made enough of these pictures with model figures now to create a calendar for 2025, so you know what anyone that knows me will be getting for Christmas this year.
See my Model Citizens project page for more examples.
Cherry Blossom Downpour
15 July 2024
This picture, taken in Kyoto, has just been accepted into the summer exhibition at the Babylon Gallery in Ely.
It’s already printed, So now I need to pick my mount and frame to show it off to best advantage.
Twilight Zone
17 June 2024
This is an abstract layering of four images, intended to evoke the noise and colour of a pinball arcade.
Captured at The Pinball Office, Sawbridgeworth.
