A Winter Lens

Shoreline Abstraction

2011-01-18T23:26:00.001Z

I am aware that, given the winter we've had, I am failing my blog! Christmas was rightly spent on family activity but I have built up some photos to share. They just need some time spent on them in Photoshop. Here is one taken down at West Wemyss. I pick up all sorts of things from the beach hoping to involve them in pictures at some point - old signs, boots, rusty cans, etc - but I thought I'd try and make something on site.

Photo Trouvée

2011-01-18T22:42:00.000Z

There is a fascinating book called Photo Trouvée which is worth exploring. I recently came across the work of Corrinne Vionnet who takes the idea many stages further. More 'photos recyclées', in her series Photo Opportunities she scours the internet for images taken by others of famous landmark sites throughout the world and fuses them into one image. What is fasinating is how she manages to collect so many that must be quite similar in their composition to create the finished artwork.

Desk, Kinghorn Harbour

2010-12-21T14:41:00.000Z

It was late afternoon and the sun had sunk below the horizon taking the temperature with it. I found this old desk intriguing, with the ropes leading in and out of the frame.

Quick on the draw: testing the Nikon D90

2010-12-15T00:13:00.000Z

Out walking the dog last week, I went through the short tunnel that links the east of the bay with Dysart Harbour and was met with a fly past of pigeons. When disturbed, they were swooping in circles around the harbour and returning to a spot where someone had left them some food. I took a few pictures, attempting to follow them. This early one came out the best, which in retrospect seemed to work out nicely as it captured the immediacy and surprise of seeing them. Most of the wings make nice shapes. In the other pictures too many of them are caught looking contorted or like tins of flying beans.

Taking a break

2010-12-11T20:42:00.003Z

Nikon D90, Nikon 35mm f1.8 AFD

The snow had been pretty and relentless at the same time. For a number of days we got regular snow showers and just when we thought things had cleared we got a continuous 8 hour blizzard which brought Scotland to a standstill. The boys had a fantastic time and because we were limited in where we could go we went the same park each day for sledging. They made friends with a kid up the road and they spent most of the time out on their sledges. Apart from this short break they kept moving so they weren't feeling the cold. Being the chief toffee dispenser and general pack horse, I did.

Snow in the city

2010-12-01T23:40:00.002Z

I do love the snow. So many great photographs have been made in snowy weather. I'm thinking of masters of the medium - Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier Bresson, Willy Ronis, and that classic shot of priests playing by Mario Giacomelli. So when it comes I really want to get out and shoot but I have that little voice in my head repeating "beware of the cliché". It's hard to avoid, especially in Edinburgh with all it's city centre church yards, gravestones and monuments. I take them anyway.

I was pleased with this though. I leaned over the parapet of St John's Church terrace and looked down to see the remains of someone's lunch and was caught by the tiny detail of brown coffee and orange-coloured soup.

Nikon D90, Nikon 35mm f1.8G

Winter Light (part II)

2010-11-23T22:24:00.001Z

It's now at one of my favourite times of the year for making and taking photographs. Up here in the north, as the winter solstice approaches, the arc of the sun is getting increasingly shallow. I get a living room full of low, strong light (when it isn't cloudy). The light moves fast when you take time to work with it and I like to play with the long cast of shadows. Here is a link back to a post from nearly 3 years ago:

http://awinterlens.blogspot.com/2008/01/winter-light_16.html
I've had the cutlery set out again...it's almost an excercise, like doing your scales, just to spend time with simple everday objects and light. I was quite pleased with the discovery of the carving fork but I'm not sure the blue linen tablecloth was the best background.

Dysart Harbour

2010-11-16T12:46:00.000Z

Pear, toned (see previous post)

2010-11-09T22:52:00.000Z

Film vs Digital: Testing the Nikon D90

2010-11-09T22:48:00.000Z

It's getting to that time of year when the sun passes lower across the sky and I get a flood of low, winter light coming in through the front window. Good for still life images, so today I set about giving the Nikon D90 a decent test. Full-on, 'test freak' approaches are simply not in my nature but I do want to get the maximum out what I've got and understand what the limitations are. Once I've found the limitations and I can work creatively with what I do have. My yardstick is what looks pleasing to the human eye is fine by me, so no investigations in to the the extremes of chromatic aberration here.

I have taken a number of still life images in the past using a Mamiya RB67 and a Rolleiflex TLR with Ilford Pan F, HP5, etc. I'm also fairly knowledgeable about film based process and 'actions' - expose for shadows/develop for highlights, film speed adjustments, etc.

I am not that conversant with digital practice and as a result I can't say that I've been impressed with digital imaging in comparison to the results I get from film but I've only had the camera for a few months. I do acknowledge that the attention I put in to the medium format film based work in terms of the process is greater than shooting with a 35mm equivalent digital camera. I use the D90 in a sloppy way, automatically expecting something more from digital capabilities. For street and family pics it's pretty good. However, when things get a little more serious, cracks begin to appear. Exposure is usually the first stumbling block. Sensors really don't seem to work with light in the same way as film and too aften the results look nasty, with overblown highlights, etc.

Appreciating that the problems could be with me/lack or knowledge I decided to run a still life test, aiming towards getting best creative result with each run of images and answer questions like: do I still expose for shadows or is digital better exposing for highlights? Hardly life and death stuff, but important! Forgive me as a stumble through my own personal discoveries and errors.

So, with a humble pear, a homemade black background, a Nikon D90 w. Nikon 50mm 1.8 AF lens, and a tripod I set about the task. After binning a few taken at the last known settings - incandescent light (doh) - I took a test shot on my usual Aperture Priority (AP) setting at suggested speed for f5.6 @ 400 iso:

Yuck. Just imagine it in colour. Very unpleasasnt. Overblown highlights on the side of the pear and the black backround is not black. In real life it would be hard to say this was even a strong highlight. The pear was light green and I could make out all the details. Not a specular spot in sight. No Photoshopping that I know of (curves, levels) could mend this. The highlight burn looked ugly and obvious. I feel that this simply would not have happened with film which is much more forgiving in that it compresses the tonal scale better.

Deciding that AP was not the best way forward I went for a manual makeover - spot metering, Manual setting (M), iso 400, f5.6. On this part of the test I found out that the small button on top of the Nikon D90 for adjusting the exposure up and down (which I often use) doesn't work in manual settings. More images for the wastebasket. However, I was getting closer with a better exposure on the right/light side of the pear and the background blacked out.

Better. However, it is underexposed by at least one stop at c. 1/320th second and I was seeking more defintition on the line of the right hand (darker) side of the pear. I took the exposure reading from the lighter side to see if I could overcome the tendency of digital sensors to overcook highlights and/or extend the tonal range too far. I thought this might help place the lighter side in the right tonal scale area. I got a better result dodging shadow areas at 5% than the opposite action of burning in non-existent highlight detail.

Then a flash of inspiration (forgive the pun) and I dug the Koday Grey Card out of the drawer. I changed the aperture setting to f16 as the DOF at this distance is very shallow and I wanted back to front sharpness in the pear. I made a reading from the grey card. 1/2 a second. I took a few shots at slightly different settings but the immediate impression was positive. The background was dark and the pear well defined. A good balance, but still the light area of the pear was getting driven to highlight city with little hope of a way back home.

A cup of tea and some calm reflection on what I know from film based work and I bracketed 2 stops either side of the suggested reading. 2 stops over should at least put the light area on to a more accurate zone and I could bring the shadows up a bit of necessary. The result:

And a bit of dodging the left hand side at 5% for shadows. Closer to what I was aiming for. I guess with a better working knowledge of photoshop I could make a better attempt but it seems you have to do a lot of post-processing with digital files, althought to be fair it could take a few attempts on the darkroom to get a decent black and white print.

Verdict: While it's unfair to compare an mid level dslr to a rolleiflex TLR or Mamiya RB67 medium format camera, the Nikon D90 is very capable when applying the same care to the processes as I do with medium format film. I also need to learn more about post-processing for digital camera photos. I still think digital sensors have a problem with compressing tonal ranges into something manageable. For still life I will stick with film and a good medium format camera. Looking down into a flip up viewinder is also far better for composing than the D90's viewinder or Live View.

Happy Halloween

2010-10-31T12:03:00.000Z

A fine selection of pumpkins...

Mussel

2010-10-22T23:00:00.000+01:00

I'd picked up a few mussel shells from the beach a while back and they have been sat on the bookshelf waiting for me to pay them some attention. Amazingly they have escaped the usual, all-seeing 'eye of the wife', so there they stayed . I finally got to scan them tonight. The files are huge and the last 3 sent my computer into meltdown so I trashed them, rebooted, had a grump about darkrooms being better than computers, and then returned to a place of happiness after a glass of BrewDog Rip Tide stout

A Game of Chess

2010-10-19T15:43:00.002+01:00

I was waiting to pick my son up from a Saturday morning club set in the grounds of the delightful Hopetoun House estate in South Queensferry. It has a lovely café which is also a dream for a photographer with large windows letting in a flood of light and muted, period colour walls. These two women were concentrating on a game of chess and having a bit of chat too. They looked so relaxed in each other's company. I asked if I could take their picture and they were fine so I took a few images, as discreetly as I could, and returned to my coffee.

Shell UK Award 2010

2010-10-03T21:52:00.004+01:00

I've posted this image before but hot off the press...I've won a Shell UK Award in the Fife Open Art Exhibition, for the second year in a row. Best of all (apart from the kudos and the cheque) is this year's picture was MADE ON FILM (using the Rolleiflex) and printed myself. This is a scanned version of the negative which is quite different from the darkroom print. I kind of like both but the darkroom print is more subdued and has more texture in the snow, and this came out of the scan in an 'ultra-bright' finish.
Unframed prints can be purchased for £65 c. 8" x 8"

A Walk in the Woods (Part 1)

2010-09-27T22:42:00.002+01:00

I took a quiet walk with the dog through Wemyss Firs on Saturday. Apart from the Scouts and a few joyriding motorbike scramblers there is rarely anyone else around. I saw two huge Buzzards in the fields beyond the woods, and a deer (a photo of which I will post soon). Chestnuts were falling from huge trees along by the river, and the remains of many open, half-eaten ones lay on the ground. I had taken quite a few pictures of the sun coming through big, old, gnarled trees - Oak, Chestnut, Beech - but none of them seemed to work out. All a bit cliched and poor quality (note to self - make more use of tripod) but I like the effect of the layers in this 'puddle picture'.

The Kiss

2010-09-17T22:55:00.004+01:00

It's nearly the Equinox I believe and time to come back to A Winter Lens for a while. I quite like having the 2 blogs, it's a bit like having two houses. I left asummerlens.blogpost with a kiss so I'll start Winter with the same...

View from Dysart over the Forth

2010-02-15T21:53:00.004Z

This was one of those moments when the mist, light and sea all open up in front of you AND you have a camera to hand loaded with film. I've seen views similar to this a number of times from my bedroom window. A point exists where there is a thin slice of light between land and sky but it is fleeting, usually just after dawn. I've taken quick snaps and used them as a basis for painting.

This was later in the morning. The fog was breaking up and the sun breaking through, again offering a scene lasting only a couple of minutes. From down at sea level I also got a good profile of the ship.

Portraits

2010-02-08T20:54:00.002Z

The boys were making a home made video based (very) loosely around the film Kung Fu Panda. They got to star as their favourite characters and go on exciting missions. There is something about boys and make up. As they grow up they are getting more difficult to catch on film, but the face paints seem to give them a new aura as they become another character. So that's how actors do it!

Not bad results from a manual TLR with no electronics. There is something quite touching about their belief in our ability with a paint brush.

Palma Cathedral

2010-01-06T21:46:00.008Z

This was taken on a Holga from the roof top of the Es Baluard Contemporary Art Museum, which is definitely worth a visit if you are visiting Mallorca. It has many works by Miro and Picasso and the architecture of the old and new is amazing.

Punta la Nau, Mallorca

2010-01-04T22:06:00.004Z

No, I didn't lean out over the cliff face with my camera to take this. Not with my partner making spontaneous and shrill panic calls and holding the kids's arms so tight that their hands were starved of blood. With the retreating calls of a certain and spectacular death echoing in my my ear (she went back to the car) I held the Rolleiflex over the edge at 180 degrees and pointed it down, composing through the viewfinder in front of me. This is one of the many advantages that TLR cameras have. The idea originated from German army photographic observers in the first world war who wanted to be able to take photos without having their heads shot off, so a man named Reindold Heidecke designed a camera based on the principles of the periscope. (Info courtesy of Ian Parker's Complete Rollei TLR User's Manual)

Crop Dog

2009-11-19T21:51:00.003Z

As I said, I have been trawling through lots of photos taken over the past few years. Here is one that I took coming into land at Edinburgh Airport. I remember seeing the dog like shape in the foreground and rushed to get the camera set up and waited until I was level with it. I got lucky as it was taken through such a tiny window and you know what aeroplane windows can be like - scratched, iced up, etc.

Cala Sant Vicenc, Mallorca

2009-11-14T13:56:00.002Z

Of course he is

2009-11-10T22:45:00.003Z

I've been trawling through my photos for a forthcoming exhibition. Having been digitaless for a few weeks means I am taking more film pics which is nice but has meant applying a different attitude and level of expectancy. With film I always liked the 'delayed' process - from taking the picture to seeing the negative to finally seeing a print. I think that is what is now commonly termed a 'workflow'. Then digital gave me that immediacy which is also great, more spontaneous and playful, but I thought that the 'have it now' process diminished something inside my head to do with memory. But going back through many hundreds of kept pictures has rekindled that feeling of delay (memory) and I've come across images that I hadn't noticed before, perhaps things that didn't mean that much at the time but do now. I'll stop now as I can feel myself getting all T S Ellioty, "Time present and time past" and all that. I'll post some more pics soon,once I get my head around the exhibition.

In praise of the TLR

2009-10-29T20:27:00.001Z

Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

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Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

Fife Open Art Exhibition

2009-10-02T22:54:00.005+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDrEFxuOJU

Amazing...I won a Shell Award for my entry into the Fife Open Art Exhibition! Sadly I was unable to collect the award in person as I was working - we had the opening concert of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's new season in the Usher Hall. The troops went to accept it for me as the video link wasn't working ;-)

Thanks to Dee Dee for managing to capture and upload this!

Barry Island Baby

2009-03-11T20:22:00.004Z

I love out of season seaside towns - I grew up in one, although it was sometimes in season - and Barry Island met my need for that dirty realist charm very nicely. Seaside towns speak to me, whispering in my ear “I am what you could have been” along with the sea breeze.

Sunrise

2009-02-09T16:57:00.005Z

Here are 3 images taken a couple of weeks ago. The sunrise over the Firth of Forth was spectacular. I just marvelled at it until a little voice inside my head said "go and get you camera you idiot, it'll be gone soon". Or was that my son talking from under the duvet? I got some straight shots and then my youngest son wanted to take one so I let him. The weight of the camera meant the image was blurred, but we liked the result and I had a go, slowly panning the camera from side to side.

Deia, Mallorca

2009-02-02T20:39:00.002Z

Deia, Mallorca

2009-01-18T20:00:00.003Z

There are those occasional moments in your life where you find a place that you just know, or rather feel, could be the place for you. The drive from Andratx, heading north east along the coast to Deia was stunning. And Deia itself was beautiful too so I took a few photos. I was envious of the few riders out on their road bikes in the gentle winter sun.

Earth Mother Moves to Town

2009-01-04T21:50:00.005Z

I was in Mallorca for the Christmas holiday and caught this scene in Palma. I just liked the idea of the woman being a tree without her realising. And all the connotations of women and nature but in an urban environment with an urbane looking woman. The most captivating idea I have read about the female relationship to the earth was in Meadowsweet by Kathleen Jamie, where she brings to life a Gaelic tradition of female poets. "The women were buried face down, with seeds in their hair, to be imaginatively reborn: 'mouth young, and full again /, of dirt, and spit, and poetry'."

Urban Graffiti

2008-12-09T21:08:00.003Z

Urban graffiti can be a bit of a hackneyed photo opportunity - surely it's too easy to make a good photo out of somebody else's picture. But when you find something you like there's a sense of pleasure in preserving a piece of someone's creativity before it inevitably gets erased. Isn't that what is behind a lot of photography anyway - capturing a moment in time that can't be repeated?

Rosa

2008-11-22T21:48:00.002Z

Watching the firth flow

2008-11-19T22:10:00.004Z

I've often wondered about what a firth is and now I know

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth

The Firth of Forth is a bit of a tongue twister at times but not as good as the East Fife Four, Forfar Five football result. This picture was taken at West Wemyss just along the coast and quite what they were gathering for was a mystery, which is nice.

Aerosol

2008-11-07T18:16:00.003Z

Having posted up a number of black and white images I felt the need for a splash of colour. I found this old aerosol can, weathered beyond product recognition, on Pettycur Bay. When I began taking photos of 'found objects' from the beach I had a tendency to think that these things - old shoes, cans, bottles, cardigans - had been washed ashore, but the more I scan the beach the more it becomes apparent that they left there. Beach parties, picnics, rough sleepers, local boat owners all leave or lose things that become part of the shoreline.

Bramcote Park

2008-11-01T20:12:00.003Z

I've been re-energised by some lovely comments about my previous post so I've been working on some images that I took in Bramcote Park in Nottingham. My friend Simon took me foraging for mushrooms and the morning's autumn sunlight was breaking through the woods - it was one of those beautiful days that you feel lucky just to witness. Going out of doors was the right thing to do. As a mushroom hunter in autumnal undergrowth, I found myself limited by my red/green colour blindness - at one point I was excitedly poiting at something that turned out to be half of a rotting, dog bitten tennis ball. I decided my talents were better spent on taking photos.

Ladybank Woods

2008-10-26T20:05:00.002Z

I had taken the boys out red squirrel spotting - a good way of getting them to complete a dog walk. And knock me down with a fluffy tail, we saw one! As ever I have one eye on the photo and was pleased with this.

Tripods are essential. Discuss. Obviously for some things they are, but with a family and a dog they aren't first on my list of things to carry. It comes some way behind chocolate, drinks, ball, lead, superfluous coats, acorns, etc. Like many things in life, photography is jam packed with bores who seem to suck the life out of a beautiful thing. So I improvise. For this I squeezed the camera between my head and a tree trunk and put it on self timer. Something like f22 and 1/1oth second.

A view from Dysart

2008-10-08T16:23:00.001+01:00

Hear The Wind Sing

2008-10-06T22:43:00.003+01:00

We took the boys out on a red squirrel hunt on Saturday. The weather was foul, but the afternoon was great and they just loved it. There were no guns involved - when I say 'hunt' I really mean more of an educational expedition to look at red squirrel habitats and learn more about their behaviour. It was run by http://www.fifecoastandcountrysidetrust.co.uk/ - we were the only 4 people on it which seemed a bit sad but it meant we had the countryside rangers all to ourselves. Anyway, as I was wandering through the forest I noticed the way that the wind was blowing certain trees around - Norwegian Spruces, Rowans - so I put the camera on the ground and pointed it up. Using a slow shutter speed I hoped to capture the feeling of the wind. I'll be pursuing this in more detail but thought I'd kick off this year's winterlens with a couple of images on this theme. Coinidentally, a colleague lent me What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami so I took the liberty of using the title of one of his other books as a title. Sensibly, the red squirrels kept themselves indoors.

Spoon

2008-03-15T20:06:00.001Z

Another one from the cutlery set

Sandscapes

2008-03-04T23:01:00.003Z

I took a few images at Pettycur Bay this afternoon. This is a place I keep returning to as I always find interesting views and I love just being by the sea. My only concern in that my dog doesn't charge across the area I'm showing an interest in and ruin the ground. He nearly always does, so I've developed an elaborate play of encouraging him elsewhere with biscuits and other treats. If that fails I pretend to be interested in some other part of the beach and he just goes and digs there.

Fork

2008-02-16T20:19:00.002Z

This is one of a series of images exploring light and shadow. If I have any advice to offer it's this: make your subject the best it can be. This is old, silver plated Sheffield steel. For me, there is no better cutlery.

breaking the waves

2008-02-10T21:36:00.000Z

I can stand for ages at the shoreline, just looking and listening to the waves come in and out. Some days the sea finds a rhythm that I like and the waves break better on the stones.

City Craw

2008-02-04T22:44:00.001Z

(Night)

2008-02-02T23:20:00.001Z

The space between things

2008-01-20T22:13:00.001Z

Winter Light

2008-01-16T17:49:00.000Z

There is about a 2 to 3 week period each year when the sun just manages to skim it's way across the horizon and (when there are no clouds in the sky) the light streams into the house. It reflects across the sea, too, so it's quite uncomfortable to be in the room with it and we usually draw the blinds. I had been setting up the table for my birthday party dinner last year when I noticed the long shadows it made from the cutlery and took this photo. I've waited another year and made a series of cutlery/shadow images. It takes me to the elements of photography - light , shadow, form, time - it's a shock to discover quite how quickly the winter suns moves across the sky. The composition you thought you had got just right keeps moving!

Winter Trees

2008-01-13T22:32:00.001Z

I think the golf course is an under-represented area in the pantheon of the photographic landscape and could lend itself to all sorts of interpretation (apart from self-deprecating humour). This was Aberdour Golf Club on January 12th, taking a traditional landscape viewpoint.

Edinburgh Blues

2008-01-10T20:46:00.000Z

finding the mini parked here made me smile.

Dragons

2008-01-07T22:42:00.000Z

The sign in the window read:

"Dear Customers

I am closing down the shop on the 25th December. Due to the family situation, I've to take that extra step, to spend more time with my family in the future and there-fore I've to help my husband with his work as his secretary.

I want to say thank you ever so much for all the big support off all my local customers and I feel so sorry to let you all down.

We wish everybody a lovely X-mas and all the best for the future.

Sabine Issard-Davies"

Penplannau

2008-01-07T22:34:00.000Z

Our boys were so excited to wake up to some snow. They were both at the bedroom window in the early dawn light and I eventually dragged myself out of bed and went over to see what the snowfall was like. I just wish for a real heavy dumping of snow, but they enjoyed what was there.

Winter Woods

2007-12-31T18:28:00.001Z

Autumn Leaves

2007-12-28T23:44:00.001Z

Tourists at Edinburgh Castle

2007-12-28T23:03:00.001Z

Clarence Pier

2007-12-23T21:40:00.001Z

This is a kind of memory scene from my youth. I went to school in Portsmouth and spent many lunchtimes down at the Sally port and Clarence Pier. I live by the sea again, at long last, and I never tire of the feeling that out of season seaside resorts bring. Kind of like a blues for the sunny soul, if you understand what I mean.

the end of night

2007-12-13T18:32:00.000Z

the December sky above the sea from my bedroom window shortly before sunrise, with the faint cut of the fingernail moon just visible

man walks into shade

2007-12-13T18:30:00.000Z

winter views of edinburgh

2007-12-13T18:28:00.001Z

chickenshed

2007-12-07T17:12:00.000Z

the low winter sun gave this most basic piece of countryside architecture an eerie presence

Pumpkin

2007-11-23T20:12:00.000Z

this was taken at a farm on Halloween. They had a pumpkin festival and were carving lots of orange ones. This, a White Ghost, survived the cut.

Sea dances

2007-11-23T20:09:00.000Z

seaweed and beach ball

2007-11-16T16:45:00.000Z

two images from the beach

Commuters

2007-11-15T17:53:00.000Z

this seemed to sum up that winter commuting feel.

more waves

2007-11-15T17:51:00.000Z

feeling tents

2007-11-07T22:58:00.000Z

here is an image from a scene that I keep returning to. I've got about 5 or 6 photos from other visits and have tried different compositions, areas of focus, colour and black and white. I felt that I was getting closer to what I was after with this visit- a sense of mystery and suggestion of fairy tale.

Recycle your shopping bags

2007-10-27T17:53:00.001+01:00

or if you're anything like me I get to the checkout and then curse myself for leaving my eco-friendly bags at home and have a(nother) minor guilt trip about not helping to save the planet

autumn leaves

2007-10-19T22:52:00.000+01:00

also one of my favourite jazz songs

a day at tentsmuir

2007-10-18T19:36:00.000+01:00

If you're ever up in Fife, or St Andrew's, and you like the open sea air then try and visit Tentsmuir just out of Leuchars. It is a beautiful haven of pine woodland bordering the north sea. The woodland shelters you from the cold sea wind (you need it) but the beach is a huge open expanse of sand and offers a bracing walk, although to be fair my kids went swimming there in August on one of the sunny days we had.

facing the waves

2007-10-18T19:13:00.001+01:00

here are a few more from the afternoon spent on Kirkcaldy prom getting soaked

it tastes like the real thing

2007-10-09T22:13:00.000+01:00

to borrow a phrase from radiohead. This is an image from a series of photographs I am taking based on the theme of the coast. I haven't been one for heavy photoshop manipulation but this seemed to give it more of a pop art feel which I like

Boy takes on wave

2007-10-02T18:01:00.000+01:00

It was great watching people enjoy the sea, and kids were getting drenched. I had a light rain jacket on which was proving completely inadequate and I had to keep turning my back to the waves and doubling over to protect the camera. It still got wet. Some of the waves were so high and I misjudged when the spray would land.

A wild sea

2007-10-01T22:15:00.000+01:00

Saturday afternoon, and I was driving the family home along Kirkcaldy seafront and we are met by waves throwing themselves at the sea wall. I had to return with my camera. It's like this every so often but the light was great which made it extra special. I don't know about you, but this kind of confrontational weather gets me very excited. For some it's the full moon. For me, a sea storm.

Fisherman's Store

2007-09-28T16:10:00.000+01:00

The day of the Autumn Equinox

2007-09-23T20:38:00.000+01:00