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Backlog: December 2019
Thursday 2nd of February 2023
Finally, the last month of 2019! As with the previous month, finding pictures wasn’t actually a struggle for a change; in fact I had to be quite selective to reduce the choice to just these ones. Even so, three of them are from the same morning fog adventure, and two are pictures I’d previously not really paid much attention to. It’s interesting what a fresh pair of eyes can reveal. This image is …
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Backlog: August 2019
Friday 23rd of December 2022
Well, I said last month that I had more pictures this month, and… well, that’s true, but the variety isn’t as great as I initially thought. It was no exaggeration to say that about 70% of the pictures are of my daughter, but hey, that’s just the way it goes when you have a 2-year-old: she changes so much even week to week, and she’s just so adorable . Still, I’ve posted plenty of pictures of h…
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Backlock: July 2019
Monday 19th of December 2022
It’s beginning to look like the whole of summer of 2019 was when I mostly gave up trying very hard to produce artistically relevant photos. I took plenty of pictures – 286 if Capture One’s count is accurate – but probably 85% of them are just of Emily or other family members, and are only really interesting to me and other family members. Still, lack of artistically relevant pictures is only real…
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Backlog: March 2019
Friday 25th of November 2022
Looking through my photo library, pictures from this month are mostly of Zoe and Emily – it seems I didn’t get out to do anything else very much. Still, you can never have enough pictures of your wife and daughter, so I’m not complaining :) Even now, almost 4 years on, Em still loves going on the swings. Emily on a swing One of the few times I did go out and, more importantly, come back with worth…
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Backlog: February 2019
Thursday 24th of November 2022
More fog this month, this time on a morning walk around Lound Lakes. While preparing the images for this post, I was inspired by a video I recently watched about the Hassleblad X-Pan/Fujifuilm TX-1, so decided to try cropping the images to that camera’s super wide 65×24 (1:2.7) aspect ratio. It’s certainly a challenge trying to find images to fit, as obviously none of them were shot with this in…
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Backlog: January 2019
Sunday 13th of November 2022
January, like the previous month , was quite sparse, photographically. I don’t recall why, exactly – perhaps it was the work involved in bringing up a 1-year-old, perhaps it was just the weather wasn’t especially cooperative most of the time. Or perhaps I was just lazy? Still, grey, overcast and dull weather can make for worthwhile photos if you approach it with a positive attitude. Lowestoft bea…
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Hopton coast, evening sky
Saturday 5th of November 2022
After a period of laziness, I’ve resumed my lunchtime walks along the sea front, just in time for the weather to finally start turning cold! Luckily I recently got a new jacket, which has actually held off the cold rather too well, if I’m honest – by the time I get back I’m often sweating. Bodes well for when it gets really cold, though, and it’s an excellent jacket though, so I’m not complaining…
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Backlog: October 2018
Sunday 16th of October 2022
It’s a little odd, writing this backlog post 4 years after the pictures were taken. At the time, I obviously had no idea what was to come: just a couple of years later, both my parents would die, only months apart, and then shortly after that, Zoe’s mum would also pass away. These pictures are from a much happier time. It was Em’s first birthday, for one thing, and although she was obviously too y…
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Backlog: September 2018
Monday 4th of November 2019
September is when the Raveningham Country Fair takes place, so of course we took Em to see it. There’s lots to see — steam engines, birds of prey, arts and crafts, and classic cars. steam engines at Raveningham Country Fair bird of prey Zoe and Em and a shiny rainbow unicorn Since she’s quite mobile by this point, Em loves looking around the garden and garage. She obviously has no sense of self-pres…
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Still here: photos from Hoylake
Tuesday 16th of April 2019
I have been lax updating this, I know. Looking after an 18 month old really takes it out of you, such that I’ve not really had the motivation to write blog posts. I’ve still been making pictures, but for now they exist almost exclusively within my Capture One library. To break the fast, here’s some pictures from Hoylake I took during a visit to Zoe’s parents in Cheshire. I’ll make an effort in the…
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The sea and the sun
Saturday 27th of January 2018
My parents are staying at our house while the purchase of their new house grinds along. I don’t get on well with them and have been feeling stressed lately, so Zoe and I took Em out for breakfast at the Lighthouse Café in Lowestoft, then for a walk along the seafront. A lovely shiny day it was, too! Cold, but good for clearing one’s head. After being up and alert while Zoe and I ate breakfast, Em …
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Southwold Diptychs
Sunday 24th of December 2017
The weather forecast said it’d be shiny at dawn today but that turned out not to be the case. Instead, it brightened up about 11 o’clock, so Zoe and I made the most of it and went to Southwold with Emily for a nice walk by the sea. As with yesterday I shot with the Acros +Y film simulation, and +2 highlights, +4 shadows. Generally it worked well, but there were a couple of cases where +4 shadows w…
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Gunton burned
Monday 1st of May 2017
Not an especially aesthetically appealing day today, weather-wise, but I felt like going for a walk regardless. It’s good to get out of the house now and then, get some fresh air. waves crashing over a groyne So, I headed out to Gunton , in the northern part of Lowestoft, starting near the North Denes caravan park. Along the seafront here there are lots of chunks of brick and concrete to break up…
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Holiday in Malta 2017, day 4
Saturday 22nd of April 2017
Last time I went to Malta I never visited Gozo, the island to the north-west. Time to rectify that! After a rather long bus journey from one end of Malta to the other, we arrived at the ferry terminal at Ċirkewwa, and joined the rather long queue. ferry vehicle loading Zoe on the ferry to Gozo The ferry ride itself is about half an hour, so it wasn’t too long before we were in Victoria, the larges…
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Holiday in Malta 2017, day 3 (part 1)
Wednesday 19th of April 2017
Today was quite a busy one, so I’m splitting this post into two parts to avoid having 33 pictures one one page. blue railings on a red wall First up: the Blue Grotto. We had planned on going here the previous day but the bus didn’t show up, which turned out to be a good thing as it started raining not long after we got on a different bus to head back to the flat. hikers at the airport bus stop The…
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