Category Archives: Nikkor 80-200/2.8 AFD

Hat Trick

Taken last year at the Gaza protests.
The photo makes me laugh though.

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Tangled Shattered Web

This is how I like colour in photographs

Greenwich Millenium Village
The colour is the photograph. This is why I like Saul Leiter’s colour work so much. Form and structure are so often obscured by colour. Larry Sultan, Martin Parr and ‘big colour’ exponents excepted.

Laban, Deptford (library window)
I expect the library window is mended now, it is...

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A Stephen Shore moment

I wish
I don’t usually publish digi photos here but here is another

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Deptford Demolition

View from the window three days ago:
The site is prepared for demolition.
The line into the tower block in Tanners Hill is a contrail not a developing cock-up.
View from the window today:
It took the digger a couple of hours to get this far into the house. It is almost worth the noise, dust and destruction to...

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Tamil demonstration on film

Along with the digi I also took the Nikon F4S with the Nikkor 80-200/2.8 AFD loaded with Tri-X
Without the colour (see below) we are looking for something else and the emotional intensity is what comes through.
There were many children and young people active at this demo. Incredibly photogenic too.
Another of Prarameswaran Subramaniyam in his tent
Some...

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Gaza Protest 17/01/2009 (2)

Just got round to developing a roll of Neopan 1600 I’d started using when the light got poor at the Gaza protest on 17/01/2009.
I was expecting fairly crappy results (from the development , not the photos, natch) but Ilford DD-X and Neopan 1600 seems a really good combination considering the potential for grain....

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Gaza Protest 17/01/2009 (1)

I went to support the people of Gaza at a rally in Trafalgar Square. Hopefully also to get some images of the protest in circulation since there seemed to absolutely no coverage in the mainstream media despite the presence of snappers and news crews in the press area (not very many though, to be sure).
The...

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