I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year 2010 !
Archive for December, 2009
HNY 2010
Posted in 35mm, black and white, film, norfolk, photography, still-life on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Self Portrait
Posted in camerabag, digital, iPhone, iPhone app, monochrome, photography, portrait, self portrait on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Self Portrait I’m very fussy about portraits, especially self portraits. Too fussy probably. How you look on camera is often different to how you see yourself. I’d love to be one of those gorgeous people who can be photographed at ANY angle and still look fantastic. Saying that, the great Marlene Dietriech only allowed [...]
Untitled II
Posted in 35mm, Yorkshire, black and white, film, landscape, monochrome, photography, rural on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Magnum on Magnum
Posted in colour, digital, magnum, newcastle, north east england, photography books, urban on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Church door – Newcastle Upon Tyne, North East England A couple of photography books were among my presents this year. The first was the World Press Photo yearbook and the second was a book containing reviews of Magnum photographers BY other Magnum photographers. In Magnum Magnum, Magnum photographers get to pick their favourite images by other Magnum members, [...]
Untitled
Posted in 6x6, black and white, film, medium format, monochrome, photography on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Post
Posted in 35mm, architecture, blogs, business, film, newcastle, north east england, urban on December 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Going across the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northern England I’m about to start writing my own personal ‘end of year review’, something that i always do for the last post of the year on my main photoblog. It’s a post where i reflect on how i’ve done creatively regarding work and photographic ouput [...]
Monochrome Sunset
Posted in 6x6, black and white, coast, film, medium format, monochrome, norfolk, seascape on December 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Meeting all the criteria for the Darker Skies blog, this image was taken at Burnham Overy Staithe on the north Norfolk coast during a wonderfully peaceful sunset. The photograph was taken on a Bronica SQAi camera using Ilford FP4 film.
Snowbound
Posted in Yorkshire, colour, digital, iPhone, landscape, photography, snow, winter on December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Oh dear! It’s been a while since my last post on Darker Skies. I’ll be making up for the shortfall with a post, just a photo or maybe a photo and text, added everyday until the New Year starting on Christmas Day. The shot above was taken on my iPhone and altered using a rather good photo [...]
The Few
Posted in 35mm, architecture, business, film, landscape, monochrome, norfolk, photography, urban on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bus station in Norwich, Norfolk, UK The month of November has been a month of waiting. Waiting for payments and waiting for refunds. As if making a living from photography isn’t hard enough, clients can have the tendency to forgot all about paying you. They scream for the photographs to be delivered, but when it comes [...]


