Looking without Seeing

Views from Rio ~V~

2010-02-09T07:30:34Z

I didn't mean to leave it so long, but work has gone busy again. Something I'm trying to manage. Anyway, this was taken in my room in Brasil. I stayed with a local artist while in Rio, in her beautiful home in Santa Teresa. She was very hospital and even took me to the opening of one of her shows.

Views from Rio ~IV~

2010-01-11T08:32:01Z

From the Rio Carnival rehearsal, February 2009. I can't believe how good the Ilford 3200 film is - even at full resolution there is little grain in these images and the ability to capture detail - even those lights on the hills - is staggering.

Views from Rio ~III~

2010-01-08T15:40:42Z

One more from the Rio Carnival Rehearsal for the weekend. I'm off to Nottingham for the weekend, hoping to capture some images of England's big freeze. Have a good one.

Views from Rio ~II~

2010-01-07T09:31:42Z

A second image from the Rio Carnival rehearsal. I stayed with an artist in a part of Rio known as Santa Teresa - the neighbourhood runs a b&b scheme where they match you up with like-minded people. The community was very kind and by the end of the first day I had been to a garden party with a band and feijoada, and was taken by another lady to this rehearsal. We drank $1 beers and danced as the parades came by. Shot from a Leica M3 on Delta 3200, scanned on a Minolta Dual Scan III. Post- processing in CS3.

Views from Rio ~I~

2010-01-05T16:54:42Z

Happy 2010 to all! I'm bringing some incentive back into my blogging for the year and have, as usual, major designs on my ambitions, this year it is time to realise them. Starting with getting into a regular workflow. This was scanned from film, manipulated digitally, and is ready to print, I hope. It is bright for screen, but should be fine for printing (well the hi-res version at least). I hope you enjoy this series from Rio, shot last February.

Carcass

2009-11-19T07:56:53Z

North Norfolk Coast, Summer 2009. Duotone from original medium format image, shot on Yashica 124g.

Here, peace

2009-11-17T20:02:42Z

Here I find peace.

Resurrection

2009-11-16T15:53:34Z

Returning from a very relaxing weekend in Amsterdam. Shots to follow. You know, probably, 2011! This was taken in a deli in North Norfolk, sometime in the summer of 2009. When I find my photos from Brazil in February, I am going to post that series. Things are still slightly disrupted after the move. And things keep breaking... tv, bike, phone line, camera, washing machine... I've developed a jinx-like ability to break things in November!

From afar

2009-11-12T15:27:59Z

Hello, this is unlikely to be the resumption of regular posting, though that idea, contrary to what you may think, has not deserted me and I plan to come back with lots of work soon. But life has rather got in the way since July. I have now officially given up on looking for anything like normality and I am just going to accept what comes my way. 2010, you are mine, and I will tame you. North Norfolk coast, UK. July 2009. Yashica 124g.

St Ives

2009-10-24T13:00:30Z

On the last day of my course in Copenhagen. A very interesting, possibly geeky course on Bayesian disease mapping - basically a statistical way of mapping health data. Geeky maybe, but fascinating definitely. Anyway, this is St Ives from January. You begin to understand why the colours there stimulated so many artists - many of whose paintings take on these pastelled colours. Back to UK tonight and back to normal service around here from Wednesday.