Trick or Treat
It’s Halloween today and apart from carving pumpkins and thinking about dressing up we have been preparing for this by creating a series of dark images. The kids loved being involved! Happy Halloween!
Hunting for Treasure
In our last holidays we were incredibly lucky to find a message in a bottle with a map, possibly leading us to unimaginable treasure!
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Five-a-day
‘Five-a-day’ is a slogan for healthy eating promoting the intake of a least five portions of fruit or vegetables per day. Inspired by this I shot five images of vegetables portraying them in an unusual way. All images have been taken with long exposure times and mixed lighting.
Under the Andalusian Sun
Quite a while ago I read an article about Russian photographer Elena Shumilova who takes beautiful, really stunning images of her children. She has only been photographing for about 4 years but her use of light is absolutely incredible. You should really browse through her images on her flickr site. Her ‘key elements’ are shooting
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Out of the Blue
As I had planned, I did some experiments with cyanotypes. I really love this process now (at least while it’s summer and the sun is out to expose the images). My first problem had been that I wanted to use the rougher paper but that a lot of detail was lost on it. I read
Glow in the dark
Children, water sports and a love for the great outdoors in the UK will almost always lead you to campsites. We found our favourite one in Wales and while the big boys were happy surfing and the little ones happy playing in the dunes and on the beach during the day, I was happy getting out
Tempus fugit
Also in the Luminance exhibition I showed a series of black and white images taken with my good old Nikon F65 and a variety of films with long exposures. All the images were taken in North West London in January and February this year (yes, also the blooming tree!). I then developed the films and
Blueprints
For the Luminance exhibition I had already experimented with Cyanotypes and produced a series of prints on silk. You can see them on my website. I really fell in love with this technique. It is so easy to do at home, no too toxic chemicals involved and all you need is sunlight. Admittedly, being at
Luminance
It’s almost there – our End of Year Show ‘Luminance’. Our whole KCC class is really excited to present our works and there will be lots of different genres and a number of different techniques on display. Have a look at our website and catalogue! The private view will be on Thursday, 7th July, 18.30-21.00.
Physautotypes
On my journeys through experimental photography I stumbled across physoautotypes. A glass plate covered with an emulsion of alcohol and resin is exposed in the sun and the image then developed over turpentine fumes. The process was invented by Niépce and Daguerre in 1832. They used silver plates instead of glass plates which they exposed in