A year confined

Lockdowns came, and lockdowns went, and like everyone, our lives were turned inside out and upside down.  But we have been fortunate.  I don’t want to focus on what happened to me but on an aspect of how I chose to respond.  A close friend, James, set me a challenge;...

Still locked down and still not knocked down.

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

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

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

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

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...

Confined Creativity turns 40!

There are now 40 photographs in the Confined Creativity portfolio. They are all taken within my home, and all are quite different. I enjoy the different reactions I get when I post an image. It surprises me which people react to which pictures , why they react to...

Another Photographic Blog?

In the middle of this Coronavirus crisis does the world really need another photographic blog? I thought about this and though, yes, it just might. The reason is to create a new space where the capturing and creation of the image is appreciated not the technical...