Category: Photography

  • Seagull 4B-1 TLR

    A couple of weeks ago, I dipped into the medium format world of a twin lens reflex camera. Namely a Chinese Seagull 4B-1. It’s very much an entry level camera. I’ve now run about three rolls of film through it, and you can see some of the results below: The first set includes a little…

  • “Super” Moon

    Taken from the top of Primrose Hill. Good fun and a lovely evening. More here (Do click through, as most of the photos benefit from being viewed large).

  • Silhouettes

    More here.

  • St. Pancras Station

  • Guardian Eyewitness

    At Christmas, one of the nicest presents I got was a copy of a new Guardian book – Eyewitness Decade. The book featured photographs taken from The Guardian’s daily doublepage photospread – Eyewitness. Except that the Eyewitness feature only began in 2005 when The Guardian changed from a broadsheet size to a Berliner format. This…

  • National Portrait Gallery Workshop

    Back in November I visited the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The museum had also put on a number of talks and events surrounding the prize, and on Saturday I was part of a small workshop group there to learn a little more about what makes a good photographic portrait.…

  • Analogue Afternoon

    Sadly my DSLR is winging its way back to Sony to be repaired. I could have reverted to my old camera, but there were a shots at the end of a pack in my Polaroid, so I thought I’d shoot them. Clearly they’re well out of date and these images have been tidied up digitally…

  • Happy New Year

  • Empty Shop Fronts

    My local council has an initiative called “Dressing Vacant Shops” which I only noticed today. Of course it’s somewhat ironic that the photos they’re using are of shops of the sort that have basically been driven out of business by supermarkets and large chains that make too many of our High Streets look identical.

  • Monochrome

  • Christmas So Far

     

  • Exhibitions

    Here’s a picture that doesn’t feature the portrait of anybody at all, but that I took outside the National Portrait Gallery. Over the weekend I went to two utterly unrelated exhibitions that have recently opened in London. The National Portrait Gallery has the Taylor Wessing PhotographicPortrait Prize – an exhibition of around sixty photos from…