Still locked down and still not knocked down.

by | Nov 2, 2020 | Uncategorized

I am a deep believer that life is what we make of it, and so facing into a second lockdown, I have decided to make life a little more interesting for the PotD. I am not easing up on the rules, don’t worry. The pictures are still taken at home and still within...

Confined Creativity

by | Oct 29, 2020 | Confined Creativity

200 days in, the Confined Creativity project grows and develops! 200 days of Confined Creativity When I was first challenged to do this, tame a picture each day from within my home, I knew it was not going to be easy and it was going to be quite long. At that point,...

Experiments

by | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorized

Autumn brings on new colours, reds, ambers and gold. The reds have certainly been reflected in my recent pictures during early October. This has also been a visually blue period for me, Prussian Blue, to be precise. I have been experimenting with cyanotype printing...

In the field: Hasselblad XPan 2

by | Aug 19, 2020 | Review

Look at a Hasselblad catalogue from 1998 to 2006, and you will find a family album of similar Nordic cameras.  They are the same shape; they weigh much the same, they use the same film; the list goes on.  They are all true Nordics, except one; one...

“Ghosts No. 2” The 70th Picture

by | Jun 20, 2020 | Confined Creativity

The 70th image is here! This project has come a long way from when we started. This picture is the second of a short series of photographs which are being produced using alternative techniques. This picture used a surplus film form printing two photographs and used...