grey and green

Pentax 67 105mm 2.4f lens with Fuji Reala 100

not exactly a photo a week

Getting back into walking and finding places I feel a connection with. Its little wonder I still feel closest to a sense of place when i'm by the sea. it doesn't matter where i am in the world , if i get to the coast it feels like a weight is lifted, as i make it to the edge of the land. The people who share this are people i want to photograph. i met this man at Carlyon bay on the outskirts of

St. Austell, i didn't ask why he'd made a flag but i complemented him on it and he simply replied he'd just"knocked it up" .

A wedding I shot last weekend.

yashica-d vs hasselblad 501c

i decided to put it to the test my old faithful yashica tlr vs my new hasselblad 501... so i used both on the shoot with terry to compare them... in the Hass i used new kodak portra 400 and the yashica it was fuji reala 100 ... not exactly a fair comparison but i've been doubting my new cvamera and was thinking of selling it. just because i probably only bought it for the label.

i've realised i need to shoot the hassleblad on a tripod for best results... the shutter so powerful it vibrates the camera in your hand.

the yashica is a bit hazy in comparison but that adds to its charm.

a couple of images from the shoot with puzzle muteson..

i know these are seriously contrasty and there are stains where i didn't wash the negs properly after fixing them. its part of the photo. Anton corbijn mixed with post war japanese photographers, daido moriyama, influenced photos.

http://www.myspace.com/puzzlemuteson

bex pre wedding make up

this photo is from the first wedding i photographed on my own. i shot the entire wedding on a digital camera but made time to take a couple on film. i took this photo on a hasselblad wide open at 2.8f and a 60th of a second on ilford delta 400 pushed to 800. this is a scan of a print i made in the darkroom today... its a bit dark and contrasty .

puzzle muteson contact sheet... don't you miss contact sheets?

while on the isle of wight photographing a wedding, i took the chance to photograph a friend and musician Puzzle Muteson (Terry)... the light was fading fast as a miscommunication left me standing outside the wrong co op to meet him... so i worked fast to get some portraits. i just wanted a contact sheet of images, simply because i love the look of a contact sheet and they are rarely seen these days. shot on a Yashica t5 made famous by terry richardson, i've had this camera since i was eighteen and its slowly dying. more images to come just waiting for the film to be developed ( its colour)

Check out terrys music here http://www.myspace.com/puzzlemuteson

i love you ruth