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Parks and gardens

Lesseps

I’ve been playing around on building sites again…

Ugly

One of the reasons I started shooting my Oasis series was that I found the spaces often genuinely beautiful. But sometimes, they are just plain ugly…

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Flowers (again)

As most people know, I’m a sucker for flowers in the urban environment. I’d love to do a series on ‘Plastic Flowers’ too, but Bee beat me to it .
Anyway, 2 new ones

Val d’Hebron

From a new series…

Architecture

If you have to work for a living, I guess a really great way would be shooting architecture, of course, only interesting stuff and in a way you like…

Older work

It is a source of immense frustration that I seem to get at least as much interest in old work as new stuff. On my old site, this was all hidden and only accessable if linked to from outside - on the new site, it simply isn’t there. However, my agency sent me a book [...]

Oasis

A couple in the ‘pending’ tray for the Oasis project…

Mini-series

Been shooting in a new area this week. Whilst I’m not too happy with what I was working on, some incidental pics I took seem to have developed into a mini series on outdoor sports facilities…

bastard…

And there I was feeling good the rollei was now working, and then I come across a string of double exposures from just after I picked it up, looks like it worked its way out in the later rolls. At least one of my Lee Friedlander pics came out undistrubed. BTW, I quite like the [...]

Gardens

From a new series on gardens in wasteland..

Out-take

Here is a recent out-take from a shoot for the Oasis project. Whilst the place certainly qualifies, it is showing a space that really jars with the rest of the series

THAT composition again…

Whenever I see this kind of scene I say - ok, shoot it, get it out of your system, and then no more for the day - so shot, scanned, published. Get thee behind me Lee

Dreams/Sueños

If I had to sum up living in Spain, this would be it…

Construction 2

Second in an occasional series… first was here

Surgery update…

The rollei has survived initial open-heart exploratory surgery, but now needs a new heart, I mean shutter. A donor has been found and the transplant is scheduled for early next week. In the meantime, some square pics…

Christmas pics

A bit late I know, but when I was in Logroño (capital of La Rioja, where the wines come from) at Christmas

I used the family digi ps for something other than family snapshots. I’d forgotten totally about these and only came across them when I was doing some digi-spring-cleaning.
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All a bit too digi-holga for me [...]

One of the reasons I want to shoot with an 8×10…

…is to be able to do this stuff so that I can resolve the fine detail detail that makes this kind of image so compelling - although the web is hardly the place to do it justice…

From Tim Atherton’s ‘Muse-ings’ blog.

Green Thing revisited

Green Thing 2… I’m always seeking for ways to cover the material found in my ‘Only a Green Thing’ project in colour. Here’s a couple from two weeks ago

La Montseyn

Spent the weekend here a while back - 3 pics from the backlog whilst the rollei is being sorted

Nod to Ralph…

This pic of Ralphs had me going back to the archives for this…

Riffing on a theme

Olympic Village

Las Ramblas

I normally try and avoid this part of town as it really is a tourist hell-hole. If you enjoy watching tourists each drinking a 2 litre jug of sangria through a straw that locals use for a family of 6, go there. I’m really surprised Martin Parr hasn’t shot the location…

Ciudadela 2

Ciudadela

My parents tell me that as I kid I used to spend ages looking through gaps in fences and chain link lining up ‘patterns’…

Tree…

Tree from the Olympic Village, scraggy and uncared for - NOT what you normally find in Barcelona green spaces, especially not semi-pijo places…

Back online!!!

Oh happy day…
BTW, it isn’t my thing, but if anyone is looking for a project idea… internet cafes