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It’s that time of year again, nuff said!

 

This was my first home though, it was a bit different then. It’s now sheltered housing for retired folk. Back in the 1950’s it was called Temperance Place and was two rows of slum terraces separated by a patch of wasteland. The houses were two-up-two-downs. No bathroom – outside privy and a tin bath in the back yard.

The shadow of the old style gas streetlight is a fake. Lincoln once had beautifully elegant streetlights which were replaced in more recent times with clumsily designed fake olde-worlde versions – shadows of what they once were (see what I did there?).

From an existential perspective a photograph is time frozen into a discrete moment. The stuff in the photograph will never be seen again in exactly the same way – the world has moved on. Similarly, shadows cannot exist without light. Photographing your own shadow is evidence that something once existed, tagging the landscape, saying I was here…

Back to the beach, again! With the North Sea Observatory and the wind turbines it could almost be another planet.

 

Cottam power station has been decommissioned and the turbine hall demolished. Should at least one of these structures be preserved? They are a monument to the 20th century, and the folly of an age of fossil fuel that has brought us to the virtual destruction of the planet as we know it. Seen in a more romantic light they are also  a kind of modern Stonehenge. Almost unimaginable structures that dominate the landscape like no other structure.

Also see: Cottam Power Station

It’s been almost a year and my mojo has finally returned. The past year I have continued to wander the landscape like some sort of misdirected pilgrim.

So, here we go again – NATIONAL LANDSCAPE is the latest chapter of Jerusalem. It’s black and white, back to basics! I was always happier with black and white. How can it seem more natural than colour? I guess there’s some irony there given the subject of the project. You might get that better when you read on. Find out more here…

I have been doing this blog for eight years now, time for a reset and a break.

Until I return take a look through the archive on the right.

Back soon-ish…

Q. What happens when you put a a new smartphone in the hands of lycanthrope…

A. He tries to break it of course. I have used this example to specifically show the current limitations of technology and AI. The image below was taken by moonlight at 3.00AM on an iPhone 12 flagship. Look at what the AI has done to the areas it can not decipher – mush. Think I’ll call it the ‘mush filter’.

 

It’s a full moon, 2.30AM, I can’t sleep, restlessness, night sweats, hairy palms, jeez my toe nails… time for a walk. There are no street lights around here so it’s perfect for lockdown loonies.

Technical note: I had to photoshop all of these as the iPhone renders all images as daylight so, remove yellow, add blue, balance luminance, ignore AI, voila.

Starting to get the hang of this iPhone photography stuff now…