It’s that time of year again, nuff said!
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Romantic Seascape
Back to the beach, again! With the North Sea Observatory and the wind turbines it could almost be another planet.
National Monument
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.
I’m back
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…
Bandit country
I’ve recently been doing some walking just over the border in Sherwood Forest. It was humbling to stand in front of a tree that has lived for a thousand years.
Where the bodies are buried
Most of my professional photography used to be in black and white. Colour and b/w convey different things that are entirely dependent on the subject and what you are trying to say. I have been through my archive and selected a few colour images that work better in b/w.
At the beach ‘again’!
On a recent beach walk I came across these patterns in the sand. I’m not sure what the black sand is, possibly oil coated sand?
P.S. Met a man on a different beach picking up “sea coal” for his fire. It turns out that the black grains are possibly coal.
Willow trees
Willow trees around Fillingham lake.
Mush
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’.
Lycanthropic tendencies
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.
