Just something to make more interesting photos with, make my brain work a little harder....
One frame : bridges
Pictures of me....
.... not taken by me.
I have issues with having my photo taken, it's not always been that way - but over the last decade or so I've found it really hard to have my photo taken. But I feel bad that I can't do what I expect other people to do for me, be comfortable in front of a camera.
So, the last 2 weekends when I was photographing other people I asked them to turn the camera back on me, and what I ended up with was 3 images that I really like of me.
Maybe I should practice having my photo taken more often.
Photos by Ed, Jemima & Matt. :-)
Spring in the city.....
.....or "it looks beautiful and sunny, but it's a bit chilly".
These are my wonderful friends Matt & Sara, some of my best friends, whose wedding I will have the pleasure of photographing (yes I know I tell everyone that I don't photograph weddings, it's because I don't as a rule!) at the end of May.
Finding somewhere that didn't feel like a wind tunnel was a challenge yesterday, but the light was gorgeous. We really did need the several stops for hot chocolate and beer and then roast dinner, hands were made of ice for most of the day.
I think you might have left something.
My "muse" in a bowler hat.
I think I've photographed my friend Jemima more times than I have anyone else. Every time looking completely different and every time equally gorgeous.
We haven't had beautiful sunshine like this for a long while though and at times it was hard to keep your eyes open in, but that just led to some searching for shade and shooting straight into the light. What with the pink dress, the river reflecting the stupidly blue sky and the gorgeous light bouncing round the turbine hall, there's quite a bit of colour in these shots.
As well as always looking fabulous, Mima is a pretty brilliant illustrator, you can check out her stuff on her facebook page. It'll make you smile, especially if you like anything "vintage" ;-)
As I turn up the collar on my favourite winter coat.....
My friend Ed cut all his long curly hair off recently so we decided to take some new photos..... that's the short story.
The slightly longer story is that for pretty much the whole of january & february it rained, not a little bit, but constantly. By the time march arrived I was pretty much climbing the walls to get outside and make some pictures, then last weekend I went on a photo walk with some fellow instagramers and rediscovered the brilliant bridges over the regents canal, but I had no-one to point a camera at. So on saturday, Ed and I spent an hour or so chasing the light underneath the bridges. Plus he cut off all his long curls so we needed to make some new pictures. ;-)
Check out Ed's website at www.edwardhandoll.co.uk - there's music stuff and actor-y stuff. :-)
There's also some more experimental wide shots that need to be blogged later, but i'm thinking about the edit further.
2nd sunny day in a row.
So I walked from Canary Wharf to the south bank.
Sunshine & shadows & converse.
2013 in a nutshell.
I realise that I never made a review of last year and that perhaps the new blog needs one. To be honest, whilst 2013 was happening it felt like there was no time for photography, everything was about making the sound studio happen. But when I looked back there's some shots that I just loved making, I feel very lucky that this is how I filled my "spare" time. Sometimes it's hard to believe that all of these different projects and everything that surrounded them was last year, the months felt like they were just whipping past with no time to breathe.
Totally mobile photography.
Ever since Fuji launched the x100 I have been swooning over their perfect little digi/old school cameras.
There is no way I could justify one of the top end models, I'm not looking for a dslr replacement, I don't need something that is like my canon. It's more that I wanted something that fitted in a pocket and was easy to have fun with.
Enter the xa-1, their littlest, least complicated member of the x-series. It's marketed as the entry-level model, but from what I've seen of it, it's just lovely. And with fuji's new year lense deals it's a bit of a steal.
What makes me smile so much though is it's wifi capabilities, it connects to the iPhone app, you browse your images, transfer what you want and then it's into whatever mobile editing you fancy.
Everything in this post is shot on the Fuji xa-1, transferred wirelessly whilst having a coffee and then edited in snapseed & totally rad's pictapgo.... It's like a brave new world. :-)
Oh, and then I created this blog on my iPhone, completely mobile photography. :-)
New time
When I was collating everything to put on this new site, I had a good rummage through a few old back-up drives. I found this collection of pictures of time, I do like clocks.....
London Jam performers project.
During the week of the london jam I had a plan to photograph each of the groups before their performance. It didn't quite work like that, but I did catch most of them. The shots make me smile....
New year : New website : New ideas
So, my last website wasn't doing everything I wanted it to, so I changed it. To be honest that comment could be levelled at my photography recently, it doesn't feel like I'm thinking enough. So we start afresh, luckily the year started well with an insane week of improv theatre to photograph at the end of January and it made me look more carefully.
I thought I should blog just a few of the images from that week, as a start to the new blog. I've also decided to blog slightly differently, just click the thumbnails to see the full shot....
