Tag: photography
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Candid street images.
Candidly photographing random strangers on the street. Well, It’s been a wild few years! I’ve been co-founding and curating HIVEArts, an awesome alternative gallery space in Blackpool. It’s become a real community hub where artists can gather, have a coffee and chat about all things creative. But admittedly, all this activity has left me with…
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Windows.
I’m always drawn to empty shops, empty hotels, any building in the middle of or in need of renovation. The interiors seem to hold a story and there’s something nostalgic about these windows when the light is just right and the reflected streets are empty.
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Analogue
Canon AE1, 50mm lens & expired (2012) Agfa colour film Always try to stay unnoticed when shooting on the street, prime lens, no big camera bags, clothes that will allow me to fit in and blend with the public, never staying for too long in one place and practically marking a path in the well…
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Tea in a Coffee Shop
Sat in local coffee shop drinking tea, as one does in a coffee shop, anyway I sit near the window because the light is fabulous and often times something to see.. ..and see something indeed I did, through the thick glass of the cafe window across the pavement and through another window I saw…
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I have a thing for chairs..
…and I love these retro-style cafeteria tables and chairs. I think the seat covering was once a darker colour but the faded pink vinyl really fits the decor of the cafe.
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Salt & Vinegar
When passing a window and something makes you stop and view the scene before you, you then have to convince the owner of the closed diner to open the doors and let you in for 5 minutes, you’ll be quick, really quick you promise him, you just have to get in and try to capture…
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The Loneliness of the Hotel Bar
One of those moments when I was walking along a busy main road about 9 at night and saw this image through a hotel bar window. It’s one of those scenes that I have no idea why I like it or why I have this mad feeling of having to capture it before someone walks…
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Gilden in Manchester
Have to be honest and admit that up until these last few months I was never a huge fan of Bruce Gilden. I always found his method of using flash up close and personal, shooting the unsuspecting public on the street, a little too intrusive and rude. But have to admit that having tried it…
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Red Leatherette
Call me crazy …I just love the color, symmetry and simplicity of this ‘chillin’ space at Ramp City in Blackpool. Worn,torn red leatherette seats and scuffed mustard yellow walls …Americana in Blackpool. I love it!
Just Photography. 