• Hunstanton beach and cliffs

  Saturday 23rd of January 2016

  Hunstanton is a town on the west coast of Norfolk. It’s one of the only places in the east of England where you can watch the sun set over the sea, and is home to some interesting red-and-white cliffs. The weather forecast was more promising today than last time, so I decided to drive over to Hunstanton again. The sun was shining almost all the way there, but annoyingly, clouds began to appear no…

  • beach
  • cliffs
  • geology
  • hunstanton
  • norfolk
  • rocks
  • sea
  • whale

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• OCOLOY Week 42

  Sunday 17th of January 2016

  Christmas and New Year are quite the schedule disruptors, as evidenced by the nearly 4 week break since the previous OCOLOY post and during that time I did quite a bit of shooting with lenses other than the 35mm. The regular weekly posting will now resume, though, and with only ten more to go! I’ve decided that when I finish I’m going to do a Top 10, since a ‘best of each week’ isn’t really practi…

  • black-and-white
  • norwich
  • ocoloy
  • winter

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• Birmingham, grey

  Sunday 10th of January 2016

  Zoe attended a teaching conference on Saturday, and we thought it’d be a good chance for me to take a look around the city, which I’d never been to before. The weather was unfortunately not very inspiring, and I spent a good deal of time and energy trying to find a camera shop so I could get a spare battery for my camera, as I’d forgotten to charge the current one and I seem to have misplaced my e…

  • birmingham
  • black-and-white
  • city
  • photography

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• Documentary photography in Tyria

  Thursday 7th of January 2016

  A series of pictures using screenshots from the game Guild Wars 2 as their base, processed to look like grainy black and white film photos. Ash Tribune quarters, Black Citadel Ash Tribune quarters, Black Citadel Breachwater Lake, Diessa Plateau Breachwater Lake, Diessa Plateau Dreamdark Enclave, Caledon Forest Dreamdark Enclave, Caledon Forest Monument Grounds, Blazeridge Steppes Monument …

  • black-and-white
  • documentary
  • guild-wars-2
  • screenshot
  • tyria

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• OCOLOY Week 41

  Sunday 20th of December 2015

  I digressed a little this week, photographically speaking: the first two pictures in this post are not from the usual 35mm lens. The first is from the Fuji 18 – 55mm f/2.8 – 4, the mid-range ‘kit lens’ that most people seem to think is undeserving of the negative connotations such a term suggests. It certainly is a nice lens, especially given its price when bought as part of a kit, but I think I’ve be…

  • boats
  • lens
  • ocoloy
  • oulton-broad
  • project
  • sign

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• OCOLOY Week 40

  Sunday 13th of December 2015

  40 feels like a milestone, a nice round number of weeks. It’s certainly a significant chunk of a year! Still, the ones I’m most looking forward to are 42 and 47, or ‘10 weeks to go’ and ‘5 weeks to go’, and of course weeks 51 and 52 will be rather exciting. Yesterday Zoe and I went to Norwich, and on the way home stopped by Wex Photographic ’s showroom to buy a Christmas present for her dad. Whil…

  • equipment
  • fuji
  • gear
  • lens
  • musing
  • ocoloy
  • pondering

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• OCOLOY Week 39

  Sunday 6th of December 2015

  I said last week that I was going to think about using a ‘Fuji Neopan 1600’ emulation for processing this week’s pictures. I decided to go ahead with this, and quite early on realised it’d mean having to keep it in mind when shooting, as it has a particular contrast and colour response that’s quite… ‘opinionated’. The usual preset I use has a more subtle aesthetic, and suits quite a wide variety…

  • black-and-white
  • documentary
  • evening
  • film-emulation
  • grunge
  • neopan
  • norwich
  • ocoloy

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• OCOLOY Week 38

  Sunday 29th of November 2015

  For some reason I’m at loss to explain, a couple of days ago I started a Week 39 OCOLOY album in Capture One, thinking I’d already done 38. I was a rather dismayed that I’d left it so late in the week, further so because of the dreary weather since then. Of course, this post being titled ‘OCOLOY Week 38’ shows I was mistaken, and could in fact make use of several nice pictures I took earlier in th…

  • black-and-white
  • carlton-colville
  • ocoloy
  • sunny
  • winter

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• OCOLOY Week 37

  Monday 23rd of November 2015

  I was getting a little worried that this week would be a washout, with the weather generally being wet and windy, but fortunately there were a few days of shine and I made an effort to use that nice light. Winter sun is probably my favourite kind of light – it combines the low and long shadows of a sunset/sunrise, but with a colder, whiter, more etherial feel. road arrow road arrow tree and walk…

  • black-and-white
  • norwich
  • ocoloy
  • project
  • winter

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• OCOLOY Week 36

  Sunday 15th of November 2015

  Somewhat chastened by my lack of effort last week, this week I resolved to try harder, resulting in two pre-work bike rides to the beach, and one nice hour-long stroll around north Lowestoft seafront which, despite the generally dull overcast weather, produced plenty of pleasing pictures. It’s certainly somewhere I’ll revisit, particularly on sunnier days. This is the first time in many weeks wher…

  • beach
  • editing
  • lowestoft
  • ocoloy
  • productive

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• OCOLOY Week 35

  Sunday 8th of November 2015

  Oh dear. This week was mostly a disappointment, photographically, as I spent almost no time out taking pictures. The short time I did spend at Oulton Broad yesterday with Zoe did prove fruitful, though – the last picture in particular I really like, and that somewhat makes up for the rest of the week’s mediocrity. So few little time did I spec with the camera, in fact, that this week I only have 4…

  • black-and-white
  • lazy
  • ocoloy

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• OCOLOY Week 34

  Sunday 1st of November 2015

  Rather last-minute this week, but what a productive minute it was! During the week the weather had once again been meh, and so had my motivation, but with Sunday came fog. Fog is always great for creative inspiration, I think because it’s so rare, and so there’s a novelty factor involved. no access gate no access gate tatters on barbed wire tatters on barbed wire Hamilton Road bus stop Hamil…

  • black-and-white
  • fog
  • lowestoft
  • ocoloy

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• OCOLOY Week 33

  Tuesday 27th of October 2015

  Much like last week , the weather this week was mostly grey and dull, making me really feel the onset of winter, and its associated emotional blues. This led me to poke around with some monochrome conversions in Capture One, and on a whim I tried a less contrasty one with a slightly brighter tone curve. I really like it, which is surprising to me because although I’ve often felt I should try to…

  • black-and-white
  • film-emulation
  • london
  • musing
  • ocoloy
  • photography
  • pondering

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• OCOLOY Week 32

  Monday 19th of October 2015

  Weather this week: almost entirely rainy or heavily overcast. Most of these pictures were shot at ISO 2000; the lowest was at 400, and that had to be pushed a bit in Capture One. Lens this week: Fuji 18 – 55mm! Yep, I decided this week I needed a break from the exclusive 35mm usage, as a sort of preview of things to come once I’m done with the OCOLOY project. The 18 – 55 is odd. The stabilisation I fi…

  • beccles
  • dull
  • ocoloy
  • overcast
  • perspective
  • rain
  • thoughts
  • zoom

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• OCOLOY Week 31

  Friday 16th of October 2015

  Another busy week, alas not photographically: deadlines are looming at work which has left me little time or energy for taking pictures. I have, however, been spending a lot of time thinking about meaning . What do I want to say with my pictures? I feel like I’m approaching Step 4 in Andy Ilachinski’s Eightfold Path Toward Self-Discovery , but it’s a long hard climb to reach it. I want more out …

  • meaning
  • ocoloy
  • sunrise
  • thoughts
  • why-am-i-even-doing-this

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