...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 7 minutes Already owning the mk-I synth (EA-1) and sampler (ES-1) members of the electribe family I’ve been half on the look out for the drum machine for a while, so snapped this one up when it appeared for £139 in my local second hand shop. New …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been ridiculously busy recently, rearranging and redecorating my house, so not had a lot of time to either shoot, or even get things on the site. But, slightly delayed, here are a few recent shots. Each year I try and do some shooting for …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Took my self and my kit down to the warm up party for this year’s Unity Day for a few beers and some shooting. Here’s a few shots from the night.
Reading Time: 2 minutes …I was an ‘Uncle Bob’ – as those in the wedding trade call the family member with a good camera.
There was a slight trauma when our toddler launched himself at the cake, and I actually saw the wedding photographer give me a knowing look…
Reading Time: 3 minutes …the opportunity to share skills and play with new equipment, and also the chance to do some work with models.
This is Amelia – she said that she was relatively new to modelling and it was mostly a hobby for her, but i found her great to work with…
Reading Time: 2 minutes …I have been shooting at the Elliot’s Footprint summer fete in Meanwood; a fundraiser for the charity, which supports parents after the loss of a child.
Though I had a lovely time, I have to say this was one of the most difficult shoots in have done for a long time…
Reading Time: 2 minutes …so Le Grand Depart on my doorstep was always going to be something I’d take a look at.
But a bit of a challenge it was, as I had the small toddler in tow…
Reading Time: 2 minutes …long term project to shoot the canal network in West Yorkshire. Some of this I manage to do with the toddler in tow, as these in Wakefield, where there is also a lovely play park outside the Hepworth Gallery.
I will be making these into a book some time. What is interesting is the differences in my editing style …
Reading Time: < 1 minutes This event takes place in Leeds on the waterfront each year. I’ve been to this event a few times, and there’s not a lot more to shoot that I haven’t already, but I did take a nice panorama of Leeds Dock.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kodak Ektachrome Professional Infrared EIR Film has become a bit of a holy grail for experimental photographers, and I have seen it command prices of over £100 on ebay. I was lucky enough to get hold of a roll in a mixed bundle of old films (along with 2 HIE Black and White infra-red rolls for about £14 – I guess the guy didn’t know what he had!).
EIR is a ‘false colour’ technical film, coated on an Estar base with a sensitivity from 380-900nm – this covers the full visible spectrum and some of the near-UV and all of the near-IR range. Near Infra-red wavelengths are rendered as a deep visible red, and due to the ‘Woods Effect’ (reflection of n-IR wavelengths from foliage) this means that foliage comes out in this colour creating strange and bizarre visual effects.
Reading Time: 2 minutes …designed by Joseph Bonomi the Younger and built by John Marshall between 1836 and 1840, it boasts a two acre main space, and apparently is pretty unique (at least for the time) in that it is held up under both compression and tension.
On the tour, in the main room we we hard-hatted and required to walk to a ‘safe area’ without stopping, just in case anything fell…
