Monthly Archives: October 2009 The Virginia Creepers in Greenwich Park are turning deep red (at least I think they are Virginia Creepers). Obviously I can’t capture this in B&W, but they have structural interest too. Some of the leaves are an intense green The park is full of trees getting ready winter and shedding their leaves. There seems to…  This looks like I’ve lit the statue but the photo was taken with available light. I was lucky because a shaft of sunlight shone through at the right moment in the right place. Many of the statues in Nunhead Cemetery are amputated or broken due to age or neglect. This one looks disturbingly alive too,…  Nunhead Cemetery is now my test-bed de jour in favour of St Alfege. While not exactly ‘haunting’ the place (lol), we’ve visited it twice in the last week and I thought it would be fun to take some photos with a ‘newer’ Rolleiflex and compare them to those taken with the 73 year old from…  Columns I like the rendition of the Tessar lens in the resuscitated Rolleiflex Automat Model 1. Definitely an old world quality, very suitable for the cemetery. These Rolleis were manufactured between 1937-1939, Lee Miller vintage. The photos are a bit underexposed because I forgot to compensate for the green filter. However, I like the ‘chiaroscuro’…  We’ve been in Skelmersdale New Town (known locally as Skem) beginning a very interesting photojournalism collaboration over the weekend. I was using the D300 primarily for the colour and to avoid cliche in this ‘forgotton’ new town. I did shoot some Tri-X on the M6 rated at 1600 so I’m sure we’ll see some grainy… |
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