fading light

After a really long and tiring day, I arrived home tonight to find the latest issue of Shots Magazine, #142: Fading Light, had arrived.

And, lo and behold! My self-portrait where the light plays, taken during my residency at Hospitalfield in 2011, has been published as the main spread!

[Apologies for the terrible quality of the photograph of the spread in the magazine. The magazine is much better quality and you should subscribe to it for all the wonderful work they include each issue.]

curiouser and curiouser

^{now playing: the divine comedy - arthur c. clarke's mysterious world}

the girl who fell to earth

^{now playing: david bowie - starman}

concord

^{now playing: michael nyman - the heart asks pleasure first}

then the letting go

^{now playing: bonnie 'prince' billy - then the letting go}

you can never hold back spring

^{now playing: tom waits - you can never hold back spring}

there is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy

there is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy

- friedrich nietzsche.

The latest instalment of my project with Sarah Mercer is now up on weaving words into light.

^{now playing: amy winehouse - cupid}

woman withdrawing into herself

^{now playing: ani difranco - untouchable face}

shifting relationships

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^{now playing: elvis costello and the attractions - you'll never be a man}

take a seat

^{now playing: tony bennett and k.d. lang - you can't lose a broken heart}

light of day

^{now playing: marvin gaye - i heard it through the grapevine}

please don't touch

please don't touch
please don't stop and stare
yes, i thank you for your kindness
but there's sadness in the air
please don't touch
'cause it makes me jitter, and

although i lost my mind, sir,
i think you lost yours quicker
please don't touch

- polly scattergood

^{now playing: polly scattergood - please don't touch}

bodysnatchers

^{now playing: radiohead - bishop's robes}

wishin' and hopin'

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...and hopin'

^{now playing: radiohead - supercollider}

in pursuit of perpetual motion

From Wikipedia: Perpetual motion describes hypothetical machines that operate or produce useful work indefinitely and, more generally, hypothetical machines that produce more work or energy than they consume, whether they might operate indefinitely or not. 

[Sister image to like spinning plates]

^{now playing: radiohead - little by little}

looking backward, moving forward

This past Tuesday I sneakily turned 35.

Well, really, it wasn't very sneaky. Celebrations leading up to the day were actually quite messy. But the day itself was quite low-key: leave from work for the day; relaxing and chatting on Skype with Kyle in the morning. The afternoon spent with Jane wandering from Victoria Station via Belgravia to South Kensington only to find the Saatchi Gallery was closed to the public for a private function; then wandering a little further to peruse the photography and Asian sections of the permanent collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum; followed by a pub dinner in Earl's Court before Jane headed to her evening's entertainment and I headed home to a long and enjoyable chat on Skype with my mum.

The original plan had been to spend the day with Jane wandering through Brompton Cemetery with our cameras, but the inclement and unpredictable weather [literally] put a dampener on that, and both of us chose to leave our cameras at home.

We did end up wandering through a graveyard at one point though, stumbling across the Royal Hospital Chelsea burial ground during our travels.

Tuesday also marked one year from the day I arrived at Hospitalfield for my one-month residency, during which the above image was taken.

^{now playing: david bowie - looking for water}

carpet crawler

^{now playing: genesis - the carpet crawlers}

when the paint grows darker still

^{now playing: frank black - when the paint grows darker still}

sun salutation

I'm currently wading through myriad shots from my residency at Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland, in April / May 2011, to finalise the selection of images for my self-published photo book, interior / exterior.

I want to include some unseen images in the final book, so though I've been working through a lot of images, I've not been posting many; but I thought I'd post these three outtakes, especially as the lighting and post-processing are quite different to the final image from this part of my shoot that day.

I haven't decided on the definite final from this shoot, but I have it down to about 2 - 3, so far.

This was shortly after another shoot in an overgrown section of the yard, on the other side of the studio (the stone building to the left of this image), when I managed to step repeatedly into a cluster of stinging nettles. The after-effects of that were not my favourite experience of being at Hospitalfield!

That light creating the lens flare was lovely (and it's totally in-camera). It was probably about 15 degrees at most that day. Weirdly, I spent a lot of my time in the middle of early spring there, the weather not getting above 17 degrees, wearing little more than a sundress and my slip-on One Stars.

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nosey parker

^{now playing: wham! - ray of sunshine}

golden afternoon

twohundredby200 have just released their second issue of the re-launched twohundredby200 magazine.

I'm featured in the magazine, along with Brian Copeland from Graphic Clinic, and Nightmare Mikey.

Go check it out!

^{now playing: amy winehouse - you're wondering now}