Sunday, 17 May 2009

Preconceptions?


beauty ~ 'A' bomb victim



abandoned ~ united



solitude ~ rush hour



'non Chinese' ~ penholder



1990 Brixton ~ racial tension

How much do we take for granted, how much do we presume we know the answers?
(Yes these are out of context & no there is not an answer, just have fun thinking about them)

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Naturally Human



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Human

For Thematic Photographic 49 Carmi's subject this week is Human so check it out to see images of people and traces of their existence. You will find plenty of human images in Moments in Time so have a longer browse. Look at images from London ... images that are painful ... those we view through rose-tinted glasses, although the reality was harsh and of course documentary portraits...

Saturday, 9 May 2009

Found Yellow

Some golden oldies.. in the autumn sun...









River Stour in Dorset

Shooting Yellow

Carmi's latest challenge is the subject 'yellow', a colour occasionally seen in nature and associated with spring, but more often used when something in the material world has to stand out as a warning.

Natural...

So today, armed with my DSLR and only an old style manual focus lens which gave an effective 100mm f1.2 and threw everything out of focus beautifully and, feeling as if I had turned the clock back over 30 years to photographic college, I went to shoot ‘yellow’. Naturally , because my life would not have been worth living had I left him behind, I was accompanied by our GR Dexter, who was happy to leave me to it most of the time but disapproved with great indignity whenever we stopped (and he was on the lead) by the side of the road.

Rubbish, signs, a solitary metal post, barriers, new gas pipes being installed, speed cameras, cycling jackets and of course those little yellow boxes that the postman used to bring containing those wonderful Kodachrome 25 images....



Throw-away Pizza...



Just don't even think of parking here....


Identity Crisis...

Information...

Purposeless...

Graffiti...


Speed control ....

If water is Blue...
...and Gas is yellow
...

...these are....


... going to cause traffic chaos ...


Recycled scaffolding...


Un-recycled wrapper...

Work in progress...


On pavement parking...


The most recognisable yellow box..

DIY....

Yellow for green travel...


Shooting a single colour concentrates the mind and I only deviated slightly, as you can see on Dexter’s blog. I suppose to be really disciplined I should have taken my pinhole camera and taken one good ‘yellow image’, or even a roll of 12 exposures. Of course with digital we could make any image ‘yellow’…

Saturday, 25 April 2009

Round 2

Nature in colour and 'mostly manufactured' in B&W (the fossils are genuine)














Round and round and round: Thematic Photographic 46

Round ...












For the basis of this check out Carmi's blog and then join in and meet the others...

Monday, 20 April 2009

Thematic Photographic 45- Floral

For the basis of this check out Carmi's blog and then join in and meet the others...



Weddings ~ a sure place for floral expertise to be on display



Glimpses from two weddings a week apart, one in brilliant sunshine, the other overcast and some rain ~ just part of the typical changeable British summer




For those with a technical bent the soft images are with an older Olympus lens on my digital camera where it becomes an effective 100mm f1.2, at which aperture and focal length you have absolutely no depth of field.

Thursday, 9 April 2009

All the best images are made at the most inconvienent times

Sometimes it is difficult and you have to make yourself make images.

Waiting... tranquility

It happened early on this very still winter Saturday morning about 6 years ago. I lived about half a mile from this point by foot, about 300 meters as the geese flew, the river was shrouded in mist from a clear sky the day before and it was just a case of waiting for some light to appear....




On other occasions you just wait as in this image made at the opposite end of the day from our road... but with a large format camera and large tripod etc

Thematic Photographic 44 Edible

Carmi at Written Inc has selected edible as his subject for Thematic Photographic 44 where you will find many other offerings on the subject.

This one I suppose you could say is slightly unusual...

The Smithfield Meat Market, London before it moved... far too early in the morning... meat enough here to feed half of London! I was taking photographs for a friend's thesis and just saw the opportunities of this... with an obliging butcher...





The art of persuasion!

Whilst I do not serve cooked Pigs or Boars head as a centerpiece for dinner it used to be a delicacy...

But on a more serious note we often forget how our food arrived ... I'm just glad I am not a butcher