Category Archives: 35mm

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 Winter in the fields – North Yorkshire, UK

I have so many ideas abot my new podcast that it’s hard to work out where to go with it. The first one will be audio but i’m really tempted to alternate between audio and video making six of each. Although i could do these video episodes using a phone, i think my life would be made far easier by investing in a small camcorder. The one i have my eye on is around £95 and would be perfect for recording video podcasts, after all i’m not making Gone with the Wind.

Speaking of video, very soon i may be returning to an old college of mine. The college has a certain technical suite that we would like to use to complete the vampire film ‘Christian’. To say that technology has moved on from when myself and the film’s director Matt were there would be an massive understatement. Just the ability to distribute work onto the internet is a massive leap forward. Back in our day, distribution relied on how many VHS tape copies you could produce.  It involved a lot of hard work, time and the visual quality was questionable at best. VHS video and reel-to-reel audio tape seem so last century now. I think it’s going to be a strange experience going back.

I envy what students have to work with now. If anything, technology has only helped to increase creativity. It’ll be interesting to see what they do produce.

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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 over the year. Have i produced photographs that i like? Have i improved on last year’s work? So far, after a couple of strong creative years with 2007 and 2008, the jury is out for this year. I do expect a fair judgement when it comes though. 2009 wasn’t too bad, but i do intend to make 2010 a more outgoing and vibrant year photographically. More on that in the last post….

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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 to coughing up the money…. they slow to a crawl.  Ahh the fun you can have combining the arts of photography and trying to earn a living.

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Looking down St Stephen’s Road – Norwich, UK 2007

This week the portfolio pages of my website were updated. Hurrah! It’s only taken me about ten months to get around to doing it. I like the idea of having a place where the best of my work is displayed. The only dilemma i face is what to put on the site. So far i have seven galleries with an eighth in development. I’m being careful with my choices.  Can you have too many photographs on your website? I think you can.

I’ve been taking photographs for over twenty years and have built up quite a number of photographs that i regard as my best work. The oldest gallery dates back to 1997, so i’m not going too far back, and the most recent was shot just two weeks ago. I’ve only just started going through the work to see what i’m going to add. One plan is to have a secondary ‘legacy’ area where older work is placed as it is rotated out when new work is added. I must admit though that i regard the age of photographic work as pretty much irrelevant. If a photograph was a great image in 1940 then it’ll be great in 2040;  more so, because it will gain in historical value year on year.

Anyhow, for the rest of this year and into 2010, i will be adding bits to the portfolio and experimenting with the look of the page. I really don’t want to add too much, but i do want to show enough of what i regard as my best ( and most interesting) work. It’ll take a bit of time to get right but the journey will be worth it.