Works for the new Island Quarter development.

15th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

I ordered this lens before Christmas, intending to have the choice between a moderate wide and a short telephoto from the very start of my 365 Project, but the eight-week delay in its arrival meant that all of January and the first half of February ended up being a one-camera-one-lens challenge – worthwhile, I’m sure, but not what I wanted.

Still, it’s here now, and to list each item in the entire fucking catalogue of staggering incompetence and breathtaking negligence that caused such a delay would seem churlish, wouldn’t it? (I thank them for getting it to me eventually, of course, but I’d still really struggle to recommend... the company in question.)

16th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

This’ll probably be gone by tomorrow. And since you never know if you’re going to get any more, it’d be a shame to waste the opportunity to photograph what’s left, even in this state. But then, snow can’t only ever be fresh and pure.

27th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

One month in lockdown. I’ve been working shifts for thirteen years, so preparing lunch whilst watching dawn break over the garden isn’t really that remarkable.

(New challenges require new approaches: for the duration of my time off work, and with my horizons severely limited, I’ve decided to experiment with shooting and presenting pairs of images, instead of the usual single frames. The results might not turn out to be anything special, but there’s got to be something worthwhile in the process.)

24th April 2020 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS-3

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

The now-melted snow looks still to be weighing on the montbretia in the raised bed.

17th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:1.4, Ilford Delta 3200.

Models: Mario and Stina

Tallinn, March 2015

Unfinished repairs to partly-rotted wooden gate. Something to do with shapes and textures.

11th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

The newest addition to the constantly accumulating post on the hall shelf is an exciting invitation for the clinically extremely vulnerable 68-year-old in the house.

3rd February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Seen over somebody’s front wall, a decorative winter scene comprising several quaint ornaments and vast quantities of cotton wool, along with an old Christmas tree which seems to be shedding both needles and tinsel. I’m sure it was once a charming display, but now it’s definitely looking past its best.

22nd February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Fire station with half moon.

A weak composition, in which none of the key elements align satisfactorily, but I was anxious not to lose the setting moon, nor to gain much more daylight. In the moment, the clear sky, the crisp morning air and the half moon combined to give a magical feeling, and yet this rushed picture does no justice to the experience. A real shame.

4th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Rudolph the No-Nosed Reindeer. I found a squished berry on the pavement immediately in front of him, but if this used to be his sniffer there was no way of telling whether it was deliberately plucked out by a passing vandal or merely fell off as he started to melt.

9th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow and B+W 103 ND 0.9 neutral density filters

Life is ____.

21st February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

After yesterday’s reminder that foreign travel won’t be a thing again for the next who-knows-how-long, maybe it’s time I started actually celebrating my home town, instead of just feeling like I’m stuck here because of the pandemic.

I’d already been meaning to photograph this sign for ages anyway, but then it turned out that today would’ve been Alan Sillitoe’s birthday, so...

4th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 75mm f/1.5 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

In the Lace Market Theatre bar with Graeme.

16th October 2013 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS Rebel G (500N)

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

Chatting with Andy in Malta.

It’s now so late on his birthday evening that it’s not even his birthday any more, it’s “tomorrow” – very convenient for my photo-a-day requirements!

15th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Pasolini's Tutto è santo at Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Ricoh GR1V

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional at 3200 ISO

HC-110

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The first of what I’m sure will be many visits this year, dropping off everything I’ve shot since early December – although we’re not allowed inside just at the moment on account of the pandemic.

12th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

This is a portrait of my Wife that I took on a See Saw in our local park. This is the first proper portrait that I have tried to take with one of my film cameras and I'm pretty pleased with it, but I am highly bias!

Canon AE-1, 50mm f/1.8 FD, Ilford Delta 3200 Professional

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:1.4, Ilford Delta 3200. At the church my brother waits for his bride to arrive.

Nottingham, March 2015.

Rolleicord Vb, Ilford Delta 3200, Rodinal 1+25, 20°C, Epson V700, Darktable

The whole world is watching...

In other news, our television is apparently so infrequently used that I had to retune all the channels before I could actually receive the broadcast.

20th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

One week in lockdown.

(New challenges require new approaches: for the duration of my time off work, and with my horizons severely limited, I’ve decided to experiment with shooting and presenting pairs of images, instead of the usual single frames. The results might not turn out to be anything special, but there’s got to be something worthwhile in the process.)

31st March 2020 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS-3

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM — Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Camera: Hasselblad XPAN

Lens: Hasselblad 4/90

Focal length: 90mm

Film: Ilford Delta 3200 Professional, shot @ ISO 6400 developed @ ISO 12500

Developed with inversion technique.

Developer: Ilford DD-X

Stop Bath: Ilford Ilfostop

Fixer: Ilford Rapid Fixer

A response to the art of a friend.

Taken during a visit to Grace Eden’s Glowing Older, a commission from The Renewal Trust, during its exhibition at St Peter’s Church. The models are for the most part local people in their sixties, seventies and eighties, photographed in locations significant to their everyday lives, often with props and/or costumes with a personal resonance, and the resulting portraits are presented in a style reminiscent of the pre-Raphaelite painters, with the intention of celebrating the often-overlooked beauty of the ageing process.

It amused me that the exhibition space itself should happen to reflect some of the themes of the commission: in the stained glass windows can be seen the words, “Remember the dead. Fight for the living.” Or could be, had the too-great contrast between the dim church interior and the bright sky outside not resulted in an area of negative so dense as to scarcely hold any burnable detail... and just where I needed it! Ho-hum.

18th September 2019 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Canon EOS-3

Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Bronica S2A

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (expired /shot at 1600)

One whole year since British theatres went dark. What a shit anniversary.

16th March 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Minolta Dynax 7, AF DT 18-200, Ilford Delta 3200 Professional.

Stools in my living room in the mid day winter sun.

Tallinn, January 2015.

(I am still trying to figure out if Bronica's focus is properly working or not. If you have any hint, please tell me :))

Salmon and potato bake.

Creamy, cheesy, carbohydratey goodness for another long, cold, dark evening – and deliberately large enough to save some for the next two nights as well!

5th February 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Yashica T5, Ilford Delta 3200, Ilfotec DD-X

Listen, I know that Boris is advising us not to look for ways to bend the current rules, but if you really want to meet a friend for a coffee and a chat INDOORS then you CAN do so LEGALLY by booking yourselves contemporaneous appointments to give blood at your local Donor Centre, which is classed as essential travel, and is permitted as often as once every three months.

Fuck the system, give blood.

12th January 2021 — GBR, Nottinghamshire

Ilford Delta 3200 Professional (pulled to 1600)

Voigtländer Bessa R3M

Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 VM aspherical

B+W 022 medium yellow filter

Canon AE-1 Program, Canon Lens FD 50mm 1:1.4, Ilford Delta 3200 Professional.

Model: Pille-Riin

Tallinn, September 2014.