Looking at – and seeing – the world
September 19, 2018 6 Comments
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A Jackdaw, the smallest of our crows, flying around the church’s decorative architecture. A lucky grab shot.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 300mm (equiv); 200 ISO; Lightroom, using the Velvia/Vivid film simulation; Stanton Drew, south of Bristol; 6 July 2018.
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September 18, 2018 8 Comments
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A cottage in the village, caught by the rising sun.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 83mm (equiv); 200 ISO; Lightroom, using the Velvia/Vivid film simulation; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Fine Art High Key preset and adding a light coffee tone; Stanton Drew, south of Bristol; 6 July 2018.
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August 31, 2018 11 Comments
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An old and very dear friend of mine is a professional psychologist and avid people-watcher. Her insights into everyday human behaviour never cease to fascinate and amaze me. I had the idea sometime back of giving her a photobook of the Going To Work images (produced via Blurb) for her birthday, and that project is moving ahead. In the course of assembling these pictures for use in her book, I have found six images that have not been posted in the Going To Work series but which really belong there, and so I am incorporating them into this series here. This is the fourth of the six. You can find the other images here: 1 2 3 .
Waiting for the morning bus.
Composition: the two men in the foreground make this image, and there are at least two ways of viewing the resulting composition. I first thought that the man on the right, the one peering around the edge of the shelter, makes this image – probably because he’s sharp and not obscured by the sunlit grime of the shelter’s transparent side. My eyes seemed first to go to him, and then to the fully exposed face of the older man on the left, and thence on to the other two, half-seen men further back in the shelter. But now I wonder if the older man on the left is not the attention grabber and, if that is the case, then there is a dynamic – do I go from him to look at the man on the right (which I probably do), or go to look at the men at the back – and thence find my eyes going back and fore along this “human chain”? What do you think? Who do you look at first?
With superhuman patience I might have been able to further reduce the amounts of grime visible on the shelter’s side, but I don’t have that patience and, anyway, this is unprettified city life.
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 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 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 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 305mm (equiv); 200 ISO; Lightroom; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Strong Infrared High Contrast preset and adding a light coffee tone; Victoria Street, central Bristol; 24 Feb 2017.
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August 24, 2018 7 Comments
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Inbound: the blazing headlights, blaring horns and sheer cut and thrust of the morning rush into work.
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 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 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 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 285mm (equiv); 6400 ISO; Lightroom, using the Velvia/Vivid film simulation; Temple Gate, Bristol; 2 Feb 2018.
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August 19, 2018 7 Comments
We all have some money,
but no matter how rich or poor,
we all think we should have more.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 223mm (equiv); 3200 ISO; Lightroom; Welsh Back, central Bristol; 2 Feb 2018.
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August 18, 2018 2 Comments
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Jackdaw on a roof at Church Farm.
An earlier image in this series is here: 1 .
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 305mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, using the Classic Chrome film simulation; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Architectural preset; Stanton Drew, near Bristol; 6 July 2018.
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August 17, 2018 9 Comments
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White van with stickers and grime? Has FATman finally lost it? And, if this is the case, how can he have lost what he’s never found in the first place?
Ah, an uncertain world, a world of questions >>> but this image does exactly what it says on the tin – its a grimy van (that’s the trouble with white), with two stickers.
And its been rotated, to give a it a different look, to push it a little towards some sort of graphic design. And, also, its almost black and white, apart from the stickers.
The black/dark areas at upper right and lower left balance each other to some extent, and the bodywork of the van introduces vertical elements ranging from black to almost pure white, which contrast with the curved elements at upper right. Finally, the stickers provide small, unique, focal points of bright colour.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 111mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom; rotated; Little King Street, central Bristol; 19 July 2018.
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August 16, 2018 4 Comments
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The early morning bus in winter: close, overheated, steamy, and everyone dressed for the cold outdoors.
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 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 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 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 305mm (equiv); 6400 ISO; Lightroom, using the Provia/Standard film simulation; Temple Gate, Bristol; 2 Feb 2018.
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August 15, 2018 Leave a comment
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Jackdaw on a roof at Church Farm, Stanton Drew.
The smallest of our crows, and attractively busy, bustling, talkative and, often, approachable.
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Technique: X-T2 with 55-200 Fujinon lens at 305mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom, using the Velvia/Vivid film simulation; Church Farm, Stanton Drew, near Bristol; 6 July 2018.
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August 12, 2018 12 Comments
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An old and very dear friend of mine is a professional psychologist and avid people-watcher. Her insights into everyday human behaviour never cease to fascinate and amaze me. I had the idea sometime back of giving her a photobook of the Going To Work images (produced via Blurb) for her birthday, and that project is moving ahead. In the course of assembling these pictures for use in her book, I have found six images that have not been posted in the Going To Work series but which really belong there, and so I am incorporating them into this series here. This is the third of the six. You can find the other images here: 1 2 .
This is morning rush hour, this is the city, and in this view of the city are only two representatives of the real, Natural World. At lower right, a real, living person, who is hurrying to work through an artificial canyon ablaze with faces, noise and messages, all crowding in close, claustrophobically close, all around her. She hurries to get through it all, she hurries to be rid of it all.
And the only other representative of the Natural World in all of this artificially constructed reality is the sky is at upper right – calm, quiet, cloudy and serene, tainted only by our fumes and emissions.
Photographically, I enjoy the city, I love being there with a camera, this artificial, human environment has so much of interest to the lens. But in other terms, to me, the ability to access undisturbed peace and quiet is one of the most desirable and valued of all things on this planet.
Earlier images from this series can be found here: 1, 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 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 . Each will open in a separate window.
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Technique: X-T2 with 10-24 Fujinon lens at 30mm (equiv); 400 ISO; Lightroom; Temple Gate, central Bristol; 28 Apr 2017.
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