Black & White

‘Round the Back

I continue to explore the house at the corner, following on from the last two days’ posts. After passing the side, I had a brief view over an ivied wall, of the back of the building, giving on to the garden.

One thing I did before shooting was switch the camera to shoot in Fujifilm ACROS, a rich black and white film stock – I was trying to get a full range of tones (of course, I was shooting raw, so all the colour information was captured but it was helpful to visualise it in B&W right through the viewfinder.

to be continued…

Around the corner

Continuing from yesterday’s post about photographing close to home à la John Gossage, as described in Jim Roche’s post on The Pond, I walked around the corner from the front of the house, shown in yesterday’s post, to this view from the corner. The property is massively overgrown, reminding me of how the Pevensie children first returned to Narnia, only to find that time moved so much more quickly there that familiar places were scarcely recognisable.

Peering through the dense foliage, one can still catch a glimpse of the building.

to be continued…

Close to Home

I’ve been reading some of Jim Roche’s posts on Substack lately, particularly one about John Gossage’s The Pond and another on The Absent Hand by Suzannah Lessard. These have inspired me to photograph closer to home, rather than awaiting opportunities to photograph farther afield.

On the corner of my street lies this seemingly abandoned building. There have been broken down cars lying in its forecourt, for a while there was a large tip (dumpster) on the street outside and all sorts of dilapidated furniture and old rubbish made its way out. For a long time the door hung open and one would occasionally be aware of people there, but for the last few months the door has been shut and some windows boarded up. There is a seemingly abandoned car sitting on the forecourt, it’s front windows open, its rear left tyre flat. No one comes or goes. It is surrounded on two sides by an overgrown garden.

to be continued…

Water Shadow

After the Courtauld we sat in the Somerset House courtyard for a while, enjoying the sun and some sparkling water, shown here, casting interesting shadows.

Autofoto

Eclipse

A collage of images I shot from the Brighton Palace Pier, the evening of August 12th. We got 91% of a total solar eclipse. The images were shot through an ND filter, mostly at 1/1000th second at f/7. There was a festive atmosphere on the pier with families and children and the sharing of eclipse sunglasses.

Furrowed

Brighton Marina

Window

Glasses

Yet another early morning, half-blind, still life. Without my glasses on, this appeared, bleary-eyed and interesting, supporting my jumping out of bed to grab my camera from another room and attach a macro lens to it. While the post is titled “glasses,” both my glasses and the bottle behind are, in fact, made of plastics.

Hove Town Hall

Black and white photograph of a modern building with glass windows and concrete structure showcasing reflections and geometric lines. — Hove Town Hall

Rock

Sleeping Carriage

A black and white image of a crowded subway car showing diverse passengers, some sitting and others standing, with a focus on a woman holding a child next to a man. Various individuals are engaged in their own activities, including looking at phones and resting. — A train, New York

Bicycle

Sun on Sea

Black and white image of a seagull perched on a railing overlooking the ocean at sunset, with dramatic clouds and reflections on the water. — Brighton Beach

Lee Sculpted

Tate Britain, London

Interior Space

As always, I was as taken by the interior design and architecture at the Tate Britain as I was by the art shown there. Of course, the grandeur (and symmetry) of these temples of art makes a strong statement of its own.

Morning Light

I love the shadows on the wall with bright sunlight slanting through the Venetian blinds.

Homage à Irving Penn

See a little about Penn’s cigarette butt images here.

Cotton Club

125th St under Riverside Drive, New York

Just imported the first set of images from my camera since returning to England and discovered a couple of last day stragglers from New York.

Not the “The Cotton Club [that] was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City… located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. [That] club operated during the United States’ era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club.” more at Wikipedia.