I’m about to start on another photography book release via blurb.com that should take me most of the winter to put together. This is going to be a big project and an important landmark book (at least for me!) that completes the first phase of the Norfolk project.

Ten years ago, i decided that i needed a long term photographic project. What began as a loose kind of photography exercise in Norfolk, ended up gathering pace and direction. After ten years, it’s time for a break and some contemplation of where to take it next. I have lots of options open, plenty left to photograph in the county, and after a year or two i’ll return.

Over the next few months I’ll be putting all of the photography  together, around 80 images or possibly more, to make a retrospective book that , I think, will be the perfect way to present the first ten years of work. The majority of the photographs that have been released online have focussed on the landscape side of the project, however, the book will stay true to the original idea with a broad mix of landscape and documentary photography. I aim to release the book on March 21st 2012.

A visitor at the Minack Theatre near Porthcurno in Cornwall takes in the view.

A few refinements have been made to the blog recently. A tidy up. Some you may have noticed already. For a while i was only posting iPhone photographs which was getting a bit repetitive so I’ve decided to be a bit more proactive in submitting photographs to the blog, starting with the current Cornwall photographs.

This blog will, however, be the mobile blog i’ll use to post from my iPhone when out and about. One of the things I’ve had to do is define what the blog is about. What it is for? When i started it i thought i knew. I didn’t. Originally the blog was going to be purely about my b&w landscape photography, hence the title Darker Skies that refers to my landscape skies that are often dark and broody.

The blog has become more than that though. It’s a scrapbook, a mobile blog, a photo blog and a personal journal. The b&w landscapes are just part of that mix. It’s only taken me 18 months to work that out. Better late than never i suppose.

Couple stands in a circle on Porthcurno beach, Cornwall, UK

Remember the conversation Agent Smith has with Morpheus in The Matrix? The Virus speech. I have to admit that he had a good point even if he was a psychotic computer program who enjoyed his job far too much. We humans can be really disrespectful to our surroundings and other humans.

Nothing like a walk down by the river especially if you have a good drink with you. Maybe it was a first date or a walk back home after a night on the town. Whoever it was, they left their calling card. Two shakes left on a step… for someone else to tidy.

A train departs York station. I’ve been using an iPhone app called Plastic Bullet
recently and I rather like the results. Unlike my other photo apps,
Plastic Bullet offers a random selection of lo-fi photo styles.

If you don’t like one selection then you simple move onto the next
four random selections of styles until you find something you like.
I just love the simplicity and random creative potential of the app.

I buried my Facebook pages today. Enough is enough. I never did like the interface or the sterile look of the pages. 47 followers in six months is pathetic even by my low standards.

So here we are… Long live the blogs because the Facebook update is dead! Or is it? I have a love/hate relationship with the social networking website.  We argue, break up and then get back together again. I may return… maybe

Looking across towards St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

Rainbow painting on a seat at The Minark Theatre, Cornwall.

Fishing for crabs at Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK