I’m testing Ecto (more info). If blogging is easier I might do it more often.
Testing Ecto
October 3, 2004 By
Shop Window
September 24, 2004 By
Taking pictures of shop windows can be a lazy form of street photography but sometimes they’re hard to resist – apples.
London Open House
September 18, 2004 By
For the previous two years on London Open House weekend I’ve intended to visit the William Booth College but never quite managed it. Mainly I wanted to try the view from the tower but because the site covers a large area and is surrounded by high walls it also has an air of mystery.
On the way I noticed another building that was in the Open House scheme. I hadn’t seen it on the LOH web site because it’s described as ‘Stealth House’. This picture was taken inside (more information on the architect’s site – click on What’s New and Grove Lane). For a view I shot from the William Booth College tower, click here. Apart from the view it was all very austere and not at all mysterious.
Hard Hat Zone
September 16, 2004 By
Last weekend I spent some time in the Malvern Hills taking terrible landscape pictures. Fortunately we also managed to squeeze in a day trip to Birmingham for some proper pictures of rubbish, building sites, etc., including this one.
Independent
September 13, 2004 By
I had a photo in The Independent on Friday (they don’t seem to cover art reviews on their web site, so no link). It was a picture of one of Paul Spooner’s Butcher’s Shops. There was also an article on this in last Sunday’s Observer (more info).
Teaching
August 18, 2004 By
Summer School teaching 5 days in a row… just like a real job. Took this at lunchtime, like someone with a real job might do.
Lartigue
August 7, 2004 By
The Lartigue show at the Hayward is great. I really admire his playfulness and experimental spirit. The upstairs show, ‘About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait’, not only has a naff sub-title but also seems to get itself in a knot about the use of technology in photography, which they say is “challenging our perceptions of beauty and truth”.
At one point, the curators say we can no longer accept the idea of portraits being windows on the soul (who ever did?) and then alongside a series of red-eyed (from flash) teenagers, they claim the red eyes made them look like predators (or words to that effect). As if non-predatory people won’t have red eyes. They go on to say that the red-eye effect is a “technical glitch normally removed in printing”. Hilarious.
There are some interesting things in it but I recommend ignoring the interpretation boards. This is another of my “diCorcia without flashlight” pictures.
It Must Have Been the Sun
August 1, 2004 By
Sorry about all the flowers, seascapes and nudity – normal madness is resumed with a return to the city.
DTP
July 31, 2004 By
Sensible types wouldn’t use an unfamiliar new camera for work so I was nearly caught out by a file corruption problem when writing raw+jpg. Fortunately, the job was in Cornwall so I had time to read the manual on the train and the corruption only affected the raw files. Also, I had enough coverage to work around it. This was taken a couple of days later by which time I’d decided I didn’t need both raw and jpg.
Other news: busy with DTP / InDesign work.
Photography and Death
July 20, 2004 By
I didn’t take that picture!! Have I got your attention? Wondering why I’ve posted that terrible flower picture in my blog? Well, I’m thinking about starting up an online photography magazine. You may think that’s the last thing the world needs but I’m fed up of looking at the dross but more than that, I’m fed up of looking at pictures of flowers* in photo blogs. Bad excuse? Well, to tell the truth, I bought a new camera and this was the easiest thing to try it out on (now you understand why there’s so much of it in the blogging world).
However, If I get enough good suggestions for the photo-mag I might actually do something about it.
*OK, I know it’s possible to make good pictures of flowers, it’s just that I never see them.