no more excuses

Shamefully living up to the new name of the blog (work shy) recently. Since finishing my degree i've not been photographing much at all , a sort of lull after the storm. I now need some focus to drive me to make photographs. For many people, photographing is no effort at all, and they're right, you just press a button, what could be easier than that?

It is this aspect which makes it challenging. Especially with the dawn of digital imaging and the ubiquitous mobile phone camera. Everything has been photographed and continues to be photographed, adding to the wasteland of images which already exists, clogging up hard drives and gathering dust in lofts all over the country, even the world. So for me the question is, how to make something worthwhile? I beat myself up about this, I am hard on myself about what I deem to be good. But to produce  something interesting, there needs to be something to hold the attention, and to pose a question.  

All I know is that I am drawn to the light, and the way light changes.  

who are you?

Been a while since I posted on here. So I thought with finishing my degree I could get back to bothering people I don't know and taking their photograph. This nice chap I met in Jam cafe/record shop in Falmouth at the top of town. Good coffee nice people and good music. I do miss living in Falmouth .. maybe I'll move back soon .. I hope so anyway. 

never be alone again ....

never be alone.. people who came to visit

looking for light

Never be alone again

we'll never be alone again

The collection of photo's on the last post were a bit shit, to be frank. I'd been looking at Wolfgang Tillmans work and listening to one of his lectures. He talked about the way images can work together and about the physical quality of the printed picture. I think I got hung up on the bit about images working together, rather than realising it was more about the physicality working in correlation with collections of images. A different context adding to the meaning like the gallery space or in a book I suppose?

I get side tracked . These are some other images I have made for the project about becoming a father (for the first time). I seem to be concentrating on my girlfriend rather than myself. She say she doesn't mind me photographing her, It's hard to photograph yourself I suppose. I've asked Ruth to take my photograph leading up to the birth... she's taken a couple but she's got other things on her mind, other than taking photo's of me looking confused or worried with a furrowed brow.