Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Tuesday, 10 September 2019
God's Own Cheese
If you've never had a slice of Blue Wensleydale topped with a walnut, you don't know what you are missing. Crackers need not apply.
iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm 1/100 ISO 25
Sunday, 1 September 2019
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
July: The Brook
What a difference a year makes. Although we've just had the hottest day ever recorded, unlike the drought of last year there's been plenty of rain this July. If your house is flooded, I suspect you might say too much rain. While it's not the July image that might spring to mind, the word to describe The Brook in July 2019 is: lush.
iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm ISO 25
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Monday, 1 July 2019
Sunday, 30 June 2019
June: The Brook
My major memory of June is rain, and the brook in spate. Unfortunately, fixed point photography doesn't lend itself to an interesting composition of this, so it's a more tradition June-type view this month. A few yards downstream, just out my fixed field of view, Himalayan Balsam, Impatiens glandulifera, has appeared for the first time. It's present in other places along the brook but never here before. I wonder about next year.
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Friday, 31 May 2019
May: The Brook - Froth
When I first conceived The Brook the image in my mind was of the far bank submerged in a froth of Cow Parsley. For whatever reasons, disturbance or low rainfall, it hasn't really happened this year as it has in the past.
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iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm 1/2747 ISO 25
Tuesday, 30 April 2019
April: The Brook - Spring Greens
April was affected by the severe drought and low temperatures and things have not moved on as they should have done. The far bank would normally be a mass of Cow Parsley by now. Walking across one day early in the month the light was good and produced this view.
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iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm ISO 25
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Sunday, 31 March 2019
March: The Brook
By March the fake spring of February was over. My memory of the month is of gales and rain. One of the Whitebeams beside the brook fell, but the problem with fixed point photography is that ... it's not flexible. By the end the soil was dry again and I was panicking because I hadn't captured an acceptable image for the month. In the end an unexpectedly frosty morning saved the day.
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iPhone 6s Plus 2.2 4.2mm
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Monday, 11 March 2019
Thursday, 28 February 2019
February: The Brook
A difficult choice this month. Unlike last year, the little snow wasn't worthy of the name. The Brook gets the best light in the mornings and tends to be shaded in the afternoons but walking home one night I caught it just before the Blue Hour, my first crossing in just-about daylight this year (below). In the end though, I decided to go for one of those misty mornings we've been having recently, because it feels a little more February to me.
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Friday, 22 February 2019
What is it about the purple ones?
Whether it's Quality Street or crocuses, I like the purple ones.
iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm 1/187 ISO 25
Sunday, 10 February 2019
Competition
In April this area will explode with a waist-deep froth of Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) but for now, the Cyclamen is winning. The Cow Parsley is just biding its time.
iPhone 6s Plus back camera 4.15mm f2.2 4.2mm 1/396 ISO 25
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Wellington Street
Got absolutely soaked.
Then the sun came out.
Got shouted at by a Hipster with a grudge against Instagram.
How was your day?
Oh, I see your problem. You think this is a figurative image of a building. It isn't. It's an abstract photograph of a puddle. If you haven't watched Sean Tucker's latest video yet, you really should.
Monday, 4 February 2019
Sunday, 3 February 2019
Thursday, 31 January 2019
January: The Brook
January was a grey, grey month, but Jack Frost paid us a couple of visits, calling me out early.
iPhone 6s Plus f2.2 4.2mm
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Tuesday, 1 January 2019
Welcome to Project 2019: The Brook
You can slice and dice photography projects in various ways - a temporal series, geographical coverage, or a taxonomic approach to a group. Some people find projects inspiring, forcing them to shoot more and think deeper. My experience has been that a large scale project - beyond something which could be completed in say a week - tends to become a millstone around my neck. And yet, every year I find myself drawn back to the idea of a new project. My Twelve Trees project was the most rewarding thing I have done photographically, but I didn’t manage to finish OneRiver and I can’t bring myself to go back to it now because it has been tarnished by some of the events which occurred while I was trying to complete it. Nevertheless, towards the end of the year I inevitably found myself drawn back to the idea of a project once more. OneRiver taught me a lot about completing a project, much of it to do with logistics, and I fed that into my thinking about a new project: The Brook.
In thinking about this, I asked myself the question, WWHD - What Would Hockney Do? I’m no Hockney, but I have learned a few things from him, as well as from failing with OneRiver. This is a photographic project but it will not be determined by technology. I am a “Photographer” committing to a photography project shot on a phone camera (WWHD?). My plan is that The Brook will be constructed from a monthly series of phone camera images taken from a fixed viewpoint at a local location - not coincidentally, a significant location, one which I have walked though nearly every day for thirty years. I will display and discuss these as they are taken, but the project output will actually be a single composite image (with a nod to Pep Ventosa) encompassing them all.
It's all about logistics, so this time around - test shots before committing! A grey and sullen dawn to 2019 means that you're getting the test shot this month rather than a sparkling start to the new year, but I think we're on. It begins.
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