I’ve just put out the 100th post in the Outer Suburbs series, which consists of pictures taken with an Olympus TOUGH TG-5 camera during long walks around Bristol’s southern suburbs. I hadn’t imagined that this series would come so far, but carrying a small and quite flexible camera wherever you go does make for quite a substantial visual archive. Naturally, some of the images are better than others: below are some of my favourites.
To see any of these images enlarged, click on the desired image and another version will open in a separate window – click onto that image to enlarge it further.
Links to the 100 posts of the Outer Suburbs series to date can be found a little way below here.
This is the scene that started the Outer Suburbs series. I walked past it most mornings, was always visually drawn into it, and then decided that carrying a camera on my long walks might be a good idea. And so to a Path Through Modern Housing.
I am unsure of the effects that the Outer Suburbs project – for better or for worse – has had on my photography. Has the restriction to 25mm-100mm (equivalent) focal lengths limited my photography or made me more creative? This question is especially relevant in view of the fact that I (very) often “see” and compose images at 300mm telephoto length, i.e. at x6 magnification. Whatever the answer is here, I do intend doing more photography with larger sensor cameras and longer focal length lenses from here on in – full frame format with the new Nikon Z 6, and APS-C format with the excellent Fujifilm X-T2.
But two things are clear. First, that the project, like my photography generally I think, is fairly diverse – it does not concentrate narrowly on any one genre. And second, that the TG-5, which has a tiny 6.17mmx4.55mm sensor, is a wonderfully competent and adept little camera to carry around anywhere – not capable of all things, certainly – e.g. focal lengths outside the 25-100 range, and narrow depths of field in most situations – but then again certainly capable of taking on a wide range of photographic genres and situations. It shoots in RAW format, which I use exclusively for all of my photography.
And my photography is very important to me, I suppose I regard it as a part of my identity, of who I am. I revel in the creative opportunities that digital photography has brought, and I’m also very much into the writing that accompanies the images in this blog – I find all of this an absolutely wonderful means of creative self-expression.
So, that said, where am I with photography overall? Well, there are times when I feel that photography is a great world opening out in front of me (and hence getting the Z 6 to record that world) – but, not getting any younger, there are times too when I feel that, despite this, I no longer have the energy that I once had. Well, as always, time will tell. Watch this space! 🙂
The first image in the Outer Suburbs series, with context, is here: 1 . Subsequent images are here: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 53a 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 . Each will open in a separate window.
Autumn
Metrobus
Bus shelter, wet morning
Autumn
Double glazing
Modern housing
Modern life
Walking just around dawn
Modern housing
Stormy sunrise
Early morning gutter with lamp post, frost, moss and banana skin
Autumn
Venus, and what impresses me these days
Path through modern housing
Autumn
Modern housing
A good plateful
A good night out
(Yes, you’re right, this final image was an afterthought, added at the end here only as a footnote)
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