...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Photography taken, often in an amateur style, using low end equipment (nowadays often phones) which serves to joing the morass of data, sometimes reviewed, often forgotton. Selfies, birthday photos, holiday snaps and so on…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the glory days of film photography, there were all manner of cheap and cheerful fun cameras doing the rounds. One of the best of these has to have been waterproof cameras. Often you could pick these up as disposables but there were also …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Once again, the lure of the Lomo hits… It’s funny, I have such a love/hate relationship with this idea. My practise totally encompasses mad experimentation, but the obsessive commercialisation of it from the Lomography movement is somehow distatseful. Nonetheless, when I happened across some Lomochrome …
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve not managed a holiday this year, for various reasons, but we have managed a rather good day out in Scarborough, courtesy of Unison. This is one of the perks being a member offers; a free day trip to the sea-side each year, and with …
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I probably complain quite a bit about, having a young child and trying to get anything done can be quite a challenge at times. Often, Photography and entertaining the kids need to be combined – I’ve not done much recently, but to give a …
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is one of those posts with no real reason, other than as a reminder to see fun and enjoyment and photgraphic opportunites in every circumstance. We decided the other day to take a walk down through woodhouse ridge, to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm on …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I spend a lot of time travelling on busses and trains. Looking out of the windows provides a unique view of the surroundings which is detached and dispassionate, a different reality. You see places that you may walk through on different days, or that you …
Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome back to my crazy holiday in Wales. By Saturday, the snow had really set in. These are my adventures from that point onwards. Saturday On Saturday morning, we all decided to get the bus into Betws-y-Coed, so that Nain (the Welsh word for Nana) …
Reading Time: 7 minutes I have recently got back from my first family holiday since my son was born, staying in a lovely cottage managed by my mother in the village of Cwm Penmacho in rural Conwy. This little village lies at the head of the Machno Valley, about …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Very briefly, I have been in Scarborough for a day, and didn’t have any camera with me.. So I had to grab a disposable film camera. Anyways carry a camera. Anyway, here’s a few vernacular style shots of Scarborough on film. I actually really like …
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve just got the second film back from expreiments with the new practika camera. Again, I am blown away by how these look, the feel of them is very different from digital and far more forgiving of exposure. The first set here are from an …
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s not often you get to meet a real reindeer, but we have had some visiting at work this week!
