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Archive for September, 2009

Soviet Winter

Posted in 6x6, black and white, film, landscape, medium format, monochrome, photography, photography book, soviet cameras, winter on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The view from my back garden. I took this photograph a couple of years ago using a Soviet Kiev 60 medium format camera. Although the camera is a basic, rather crude, type of camera, i’ve found that really enjoy using it. I think it’s the back to basics aproach to photography that the Kiev offers. No metering, no autofocus [...]

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High Tide Mark

Posted in 6x6, beach, black and white, film, medium format, monochrome, photography, still-life on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s always worth looking down at your feet when you’re on a beach.  This still-life was taken at the high tide mark on a beach at East Runton, near Cromer in Norfolk. I especially like the campagne cork; although it would have been much better if the campagne drinker had taken it home with them and [...]

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Leaf and Bottle

Posted in 6x6, black and white, film, medium format, monochrome, photography, still-life on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Leaf and bottle still-life taken in the old graveyard of All Saints Church, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

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Drawing The Line II

Posted in blogs, photographers, photographs, photojournalism, photojournalists on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The BBC’s Viewfinder Photography blog has posted an excellent article about the recent  row in the US - discussed in the previous darker skies post. The Viewfinder post also contains  a number of rather good links including one which is an interview with Associated Press (AP) photographer Julie Jacobson. The post can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/photoblog/2009/09/dying_marine.html

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Drawing The Line

Posted in final salute, opinion, photographers, photography, photojournalism, war photography on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Imagine that you are a photojournalist covering a US marine patrol in Afghanistan. Everything is going great and the pictures are rolling in… that is until the patrol is attacked and a marine is mortally wounded. You are then faced with a dilemma. Do you continue to take images of the dying marine? Associated Press Photojournalist [...]

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Stormy Seas

Posted in 35mm, black and white, film, monochrome, photographs, photography, seascape on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Stormy seas at Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK – Winter 1995

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Top Ten?

Posted in Vietnam, blogs, opinion, photographers, photographs, photography, photojournalists on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A blog post by photojournalist Zoriah Miller got my attention recently. The post contained a top ten of photojournalists of all time produced by the website Digital Photography Basics in which Zoriah had come sixth. Very nice i thought, but then I noticed that Don McCullin was in seventh place (yeah right!!) and a few problems started [...]

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