Wandering around Finsbury Circus the other day turned up one very welcome surprise. This AMC Rambler.
I'm not sure why I like American cars so much, but love them I do. Unfortunately this one had parked really close to the car infront, so I couldn't get the angles I wanted. I hope you enjoy what I did get.
Wandering around Finsbury Circus the other day turned up one very welcome surprise. This AMC Rambler.
I'm not sure why I like American cars so much, but love them I do. Unfortunately this one had parked really close to the car infront, so I couldn't get the angles I wanted. I hope you enjoy what I did get.
I had to work this weekend. Which sucks. But it meant that I could take my camera and... and get so cold that my fingers almost fell off. In between my teeth chattering I took these photos.
I hope you like them, I suffered for my art.
This light, bright above your soul
It dims and shadows become soft
It shines and your being sings in rays of colour
It leaves and you existence asserts itself
Yells to be known
For its voice to be felt.
The protest stings the darkness
The light shines again, more focused
Those colours diffuse and fizz
Waves of pure sobering ecstasy, clarity
Riding on notes that gallop and snatch
Love, pure love, trusted and steadying
Shines, bright above your soul
Deficit omne quod nasciture, everything that is born passes away. This, the most steadfast fact of nature is too often overlooked by natural history photographers, and understandably, a galloping horse is far more attractive than a decaying one but no less important, I would argue.
This black headed gull lay dead on the beach ignored by the families building sand castles, labourers lifting beach huts with cranes and couples taking what they hoped would be a romantic stroll at a pace, with hands buried in pockets.
Maybe they had noticed, noticed and decided "dum vivimus, vivamus".
Norfolk again, but without a grain of sand or a cloud in sight. This photo is presented as shot, bar the white border which I've added post process.
I was drawn to making this image by the colours, the lines, so many lines and shapes. I'm also always attracted to photos with a reduced palette, but disappointed that often a reduced palette means reduced vibrancy and that doesn't suit me, as I like colours to be loud!
Overall, I'm really proud of this photo. I hope you can find something you like in it too.
If you offer a cupped hand to a horse they assume that you have something edible inside it. Once you have they're interest it's easy enough to back away and get a photo, horses are pretty greedy, they will eat grass for hours straight and then lift their head to sniff your pockets. I teased this horse for a while before reaching for a apple and giving it to her, it was the only way to get her to stop following me.
Yesterday I mused about looking up to find inspiration, today my head is out of the clouds and feet are filmy back on the ground, along with my stomach and chin to capture this photo.
I like the way the sand behind the stones and debris is protected from the wind, along with the texture you can almost see the movement of the wind. It's simple. I hope you appreciate it.
I don't often look to the sky for inspiration, it's usually just the thing in the background, or above the sea or landscape that I'm interested in. More often than not, in this country, it's bland and boring and leaves a massive white space in a photo that is otherwise interesting - bloody sky, such a nuisance.
Here are two photos I took whilst looking up, not at building, not across the sea, just up. I hope that they're still interesting. I know that I enjoy them.
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The Beach Huts on Holkham Beach seemed to be sinking into the ground. Sand covered the porches and doors. It was the job of one man and his dog, with their digger, to lift them up and place them on a wooden structure above the shifting ground level.
Here are two of my favourite huts from the beach.
Walking from Holkham Beach to the high street we observed a seal in the shallows by stranded boats and then a flock of birds crossed the sky and flew nowhere in particular. She pointed out a cloud lined by a rainbow and I captured this smile.
Sent from my iPhone
I've been shooting a lot with my Diana F+ using Fujicolor, Reala 100 120mm film. I'm yet to see the result as I have another 5 rolls to go through before picking a mail order lab and bankrupting myself for development costs. I love that about film though, the 'not knowing', the wait and then the surprise.
With a toy camera the results are often surprising, and that's why I hand over some control to them sometimes and hope for serendipity.
So far I've taken portraits of my family with one roll and used a few 35mm rolls for self portraits and portraits of a friend whilst walking through St. Mary's cemetery in Leyton.
So, I've been doing more than iPhotography, but don't have much to show for it at the moment. In the meantime, while I click through my film and wait, I have a couple of iPhone pictures that I shared on my tumblr site (a page where I aggregate photos I like from other artists and my own) that I will share here too.
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