In the Realm of the Underwhelmed

Everything Must Go

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:19:31 +0000

Well, two things at least. I’m selling my Nikon SuperCoolscan 4000 ED (sold). This is a high resolution 35mm film / slide scanner. Also my Sigma DP1 camera (sold). Click to enlarge the unrelated picture from yesterday’s wander in deepest Wood Green.

Pictured Framed

Gary — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:48:28 +0000

So much of what I’ve done recently has involved construction in the computer and yesterday felt like it had been a long time since I’d wandered and tried to take simple pictures.

House Corners

Gary — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:36:41 +0000

Brett from the London Street Photography Festival asked me to plug their international street photo awards. Meanwhile, the latest LIP magazine has a series of my house corner pictures across the centre spread. They are intended to be laid out in a grid like this but if you can’t get a copy of the mag you can see them singly on Flickr. Think of them as indoor street photography.

LIP Annual Show

Gary — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:10:19 +0000

This is one of two of my new wide-o-rama pictures that are in the LIP Annual Show which runs from 18-21 October at Strand Gallery on John Adam Street (just behind the Strand at the Charing Cross end). Like a good member I’m doing my bit by sitting in the gallery on Friday morning, the 21st so drop in, say hello and look at the other 120+ pictures.

Around the Corner Shop

Gary — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:49:02 +0000

I really like Patrick Hughes’ paintings and his 3D constructions were an obvious inspiration for my Cornershop pictures. Looking at my sketchbook scan here makes me think I should go out and do more. I don’t know if he’s painted this kind of subject before but I was amused to see his latest work (see below).

If you’ve never seen his constructions you really need to stand in front of them to get the effect. They are great fun, so visit Flowers between 14 July and 3 September 2001.

Adventures in the Panosphere

Gary — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:42:11 +0000

This is the first test of a something I’m building so that I can get back to making panoramic pictures. Super simple and lots of fun. Click to make it bigger.

Surrealism Now?

admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:24:55 +0000

When I think about photography and surrealism I tend to wonder if it’s still possible to do straight photography that could be considered surrealist. The question will be tested over the coming week as my “instruction” for the Street Photography Now Project Flickr group, here. Please feel free to respond by joining the group and posting one picture, that you’ve shot during this week (ends 10am GMT Friday 17 June).

Apologies to RSS subscribers for the recent outage followed by a blast of old posts. It was broken and has been fixed as part of the (still ongoing) site redesign.

Outsiders

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:22:04 +0000

I shot this yesterday and it prompted me to update the Wait gallery. I’m fairly sure you had to work quite hard to find those pictures previously but as part of a slow upgrade of this site, I’ve done something sensible for a change and added it to the photography page. [Pic]

Twins and Quads

Gary — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:07:21 +0000

This picture is made from four cameras triggered simultaneously. It’s a weird feeling taking a picture when someone else is pressing the shutter release on their camera a few feet away. More fun is pressing the button and making 3 other cameras take a picture (so we took turns). These were made in 2007 with Jawed Ashraf, Helen Cheng and Dayton Taylor, so long ago that I’m not certain which picture is “mine” and who was triggering – not that it matters. I dug it out because I went to a talk at the Blurb pop-up shop by Wassink and Lundgren where they showed a series which you can see here (if you click on Artists & Guests then WassinkLundren then ‘show work’ then Tokyo Tokyo). It’s clear they didn’t use synchronised cameras but it’s a nice idea. As regular readers will know, Jawed and I did similar things with lightsquare (where we tried to catch the flash from the other camera by shouting) and Twins 1 and Twins 2 (2004) which are more automated and random than any of the stuff above. Then, of course, we had to make a movie. [Pic]

Street Photography Now

Gary — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:45:02 +0000

At last, a book of contemporary street photography and even better, I have a photo in it (not this one, it’s the ‘wait’ picture that was blogged in July ’03). I’ve only just got my copy but on first browse it look great. You can like it on Facebook or perhaps you’d better buy it first on amazon. [Pic]