On 29 June 2009 in Zines
Tagged While You're There
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‘While You’re There’ is the first new Quiet Corners zine for quite a while. Worked on (slowly) for the last few years, this zine is a collection of booze addled photographic images and glimpses of stories from pub tables and bars, memories forgotten then remembered, light low and distorted through glass. The zine is 24 pages and only £3.50 inc p&p, for more details and glimpses of pages see the Zines section, to order visit the Store section, the zines are ready to be posted out right away.
On 23 June 2009 in Exploration
Tagged Beach, Hamble, River, Walk, Woodland
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About a week ago I went for a walk around Hamble, which is a small village near Southampton that nestles between the sea, a river and woodland. I only managed half the walk which followed an unused railway track through woods down to an oil refinery, then down through the common to the beach then along to the river entrance and marina before walking up the river to the amazing pubs. I’ll go back soon and walk the other way down the beach, past the refinery piers and back to the country park. I’m loving the coastal walks at the moment.
On 18 June 2009 in Misc.
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Just spent some time watching some audio slideshows on the BBC News website, all with amazing photography. One particularly good one is on 1968 and the end of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. Have a look here, the other slideshows are linked from there.
On 12 June 2009 in Exploration, Internoodles
Tagged East Head, West Wittering
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Yesterday I went for a walk in the sun along West Wittering beach. I went there a couple of weeks back at the weekend and it was packed so I was hoping the beach would be nice and quiet mid week, and it was. As well as the beach I also walked around East Head, a sand dune island that sits in Chichester Harbour and connects to West Wittering beach by a thin piece of beach. The sea facing side of the island is perfect white sandy beaches and dunes,on the harbour side though the water is calmer and the beaches turn to pebbles before becoming marshland, perfect for wildlife. In only a few hours I walked on the huge, quiet West Wittering beach, sat on the vast sand dunes watching yachts, paddled in the shallow harbour waters and as a rain storm came in I walked back past the wetlands and back along the stormy beach. A wonderful day and most definitely a place joining my favourite places list, East Head in particular.
Of the rolls of film shot during the walk I have a couple of rolls of film back from the lab today but still need to send off some slide film to get cross processed. I also shot some video using my digital camera to make two short films, the first of which is up on Forever Circling.
One of the films I got back was from my new Halina Paulette Electric, for a £1.50 camera it takes beautiful photos with £1 Kodak film from Poundshop!
On 9 June 2009 in Misc.
Tagged Life of Sundays
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After some recent film photography commissions, I’ve changed Life of Sundays in to a work portfolio profiling these current and previous film projects and hopefully helping promote the use of film photography over digital for future commissions. If you have a photographic need with a desire for an aesthetic only film can provide please contact me!
On 5 June 2009 in Podcast
Tagged May
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The May 2009 (and my 30th!) podcast episode ‘One Thing’ is now live, it is available via iTunes/podcast subscription or downloadable as an MP3 via the Podcast page. The track list is as follows:
‘One Thing’
May 2009
‘Clean Coloured Wire’ The Engineers
‘Conscious Pilot’ Apollo Sunshine
‘Get All The Ribbons…’ Precious Fathers
‘Devastation’ The Besnard Lakes
‘An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death’ Eluvium
‘I Am Free, Today I Perished’ Crippled Black Phoenix
‘Tin Cans And Twine (Peel Session)’ Tortoise
‘Another Day (Revisited)’ The Album Leaf
‘Soul Unwind’ Apostle Of Hustle
‘The Spinning Continuous’ Circulatory System
‘Will You Smile Again’ …By The Trail Of Dead
A little darker and heavier in places this month, maybe. The cover photo is a Holga photo of some burst balloons stuck in a tree, the photo for the case artwork is a 35mm photo taken in the Holga, it is of an underpass in central Portsmouth.
On 1 June 2009 in Cameras
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Halina, Kodak
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Picked up a couple of new cameras the other day, charity shop bargains. The first is a Kodak EK160-EF that’ll probably be just for the camera shelf as it’s a really interesting design. The other camera is a 1960s Halina Paulette Electric with a really unusual lightmeter and manual lens. I’m going to put a film through the Halina soon, could be interesting.
On 27 May 2009 in Exploration
Tagged Landscape, Worthing
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I spent Sunday morning along the coast in Worthing up on Highdown Hill which overlooks Worthing and all the way over to Brighton on a clear day, which it was. I’d been asked to take photos for Compulsive Productions, a community film production company, of one of their film shoots. The film entitled ‘Teenager’ had been written by teenagers and also featured teenage actors and production crew. The shoot and behind the scenes photos are still being sorted and developed and will go over to Compulsive soon, I’m looking forward to working with those guys some more in the near future.
On 18 May 2009 in Exploration
Tagged Sea, Waves
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To blow some of the cobwebs away I went for a long walk along the beach on Saturday afternoon. The wind was blowing a gale and with the incoming tide drawing the green sea in to the island in repeated, high waves. At the southeasterly point of the island is an old radar test station perched on a raised concrete battlement that drops down vertically in the sea, it was here that the waves were crashing and rising in arcs of spray. I took a load of photos with my old Smena camera and a few digitals which are over at Forever Circling.
On 8 May 2009 in Books
Tagged Shoreline Was Just a Ghost
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The second batch of ‘Shoreline Was Just a Ghost’ books go out today, thanks again to everyone buying them and supporting Quiet Corners, it’s very much appreciated. If you haven’t grabbed a copy check the Books section for details and a look at some pages and if you like what you see nip over to the Store. I’m still including five free 6″x4″ prints with each order too.
P.S. I’m working on a little zine for the next project, details very soon.
