It been a while...

As I have not posted in a while I have decided on a little game to play when imagination runs dry.

If I haven't posted for a week I will post an image of the closest thing to hand.

Closet thing to hand #1

Muddy boots!

Security

What's more secure than your Daddy's hand?



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Panorama

It seems like most of my posts are using pictures from my mobile phone, and this one is no excepion. There is something great about simple panoramic photographs. These are all from a recent holiday to the South East of Spain.

Over the next couple of weeks i will try and post some more adventurous ones.

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Festival Denia

Another time when I wish I had better equipment with me than my phone. We chanced across this festival when going out for some dinner tonight.

Hide and seek

A and I had a wee walk out to the local headland yesterday and came across this little fella trying to hide from us.

A quick trip to the library

Trowbridge's new library is brilliant, both educationally and architecturally. This was the best I could do with a toddler and a camera phone.

Tea time!

Hockney

Last night I watched a brilliant documentary with David Hockney called "Hockney on photography and other things", during which Hockney spoke about his photography techniques, tips and stories behind his images.

I have always liked his cubist inspired photographic collages which really explore perspective in photography more for what they are trying to achieve than how they actually look. For me they look a bit scruffy and need a nice tight crop on them to make the look finished.

What I hadn't seen before was his polaroid composite pieces where a larger image is made up up lots of closely shot and tighly cropped polaroid images and I think they are absolutely breathtaking.

These two are, in my opinion, his strongest pieces and what i think is some brilliant about them is when you take the time explore each picture they each have their own compostion, perspective and story. Yet they have been taken with an overall composition and story in mind and our brains have to compensate for the perspective changes.

David Hockney, Sun on the Pool, 1982



David Hockney, Mother, Bradford Yorkshire, 1982

Time to get myself a polaroid camera and try to get close to recreating something as special as these I think!

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Trainspotting

What happens if you have a 30 minute train journey, nothing to read and a camera phone?

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