Mad ideas
I dented a while back about wanting to try this out some time over the summer. For the link averse, ‘this’ is a video of photographer Clay Enos shooting portraits of random people on the street in front of a piece of white seamless paper. So, in the spirit of JFDI, I’ve decided to give [...]
A quick note
Back from Lexington; tired, grumpy, ready to eat brains (though I might have to have diet brains because, as always seems to be when I go away for work – and especially to Americky – I’ve put weight on again). More on that another time, perhaps. But I just wanted to say that the Bishop [...]
The coming colours of autumn, part II
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 250 An overgrown path in Lancaster. The moss makes every footfall silent; it’s so peaceful and yet so spooky at the same time.
Tramway
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 201 The Tramway Hotel in Lancaster. I often wonder, when I see a place like this borded up, its sign fading, what’s inside. This used to be a pub – a hotel, even; now it’s just a place to stick flyers.
Smash
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 200 An outbuilding, round the back of the Lancaster Grand Theatre; another one of those hidden corners of the city that is slowly falling apart.
Hole in the wall
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 198 The postbox of The Sugarhouse, one of Lancaster’s better nightclubs. I just loved the colour of the wall, to be honest.
We all fall down
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 197 The slowly decaying buildings in the old warehouse district in Lancaster. Originally, these buildings, close to the Lancaster canal, were used to store goods transported on said canal. Now, some of them are offices, one of them’s a nightclub, many of [...]
Market Day
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 196 Marked day in Lancaster, shot pretty much from the hip. Not exactly Cartier-Bresson; I half wish that it was raining and that I’d dropped the shutter speed down.
Who would live in a house like this?
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 132 The door to what I presume to be a basement flat in Lancaster. It gives the impression of a door that with a precipitous drop behind it.
Celebrate
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 128 A couple of boarded-up windows on Sun Street, Lancaster. What caught my eye, aside from the graffiti above the right hand pane, was the poster. As you can see if you view the large image, it’s a poster for a public [...]
Flowers in the sunlight
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 127 A white Rhodonedron growing in the grounds of a house in Caton (luckily for your photographer, right next to the road).
Whither the wind blows
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 124 A bent and twisted tree (I don’t know what species, alas) on back road between Galgate and Caton. This was one of those lucky spur of the moment captures, where there happened to be a convenient spot to stop the car. [...]
Sign sale
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 123 Back in the Covered Yard, Lancaster. I came back here because I wanted to capture it on a day when the light through the skylights was brighter – pretty much as it is here, in fact.
More shadowplay
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 122 The gate of a churchyard in a village near Lancaster whose name I’ve forgotton (there are quite a few of these and they all have beautiful churches). Once again, it was the shadows that attracted me.
Where HP Lovecraft got his pokers
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 121 Albion Ironworks in the Covered Yard off King Street, Lancaster. I love founr things about this image: The symbol on the door, the one on the window, the graffiti upstairs and, of course, the name of the place. Cthulhu is watching.
Shadow patterns
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 120 Taken in Lancaster Market Hall, where the shadows caught my eye. I converted this to sepia so as to disguise the horribly garish sign of the Everything-a-Pound shop to the right of the frame. The things on the shelf are brass [...]
Inside Job
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 104 Seen under a the road bridge that crosses the Lancaster canal at White Cross. I wish I could have been lower down to snap this better but the path on my side of the bank slopes up to the bridge.
A moustachioed gent
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 81 This is Otis, a Northern White-faced Scops Owl. He was on display with a few friends in the Market Hall in Lancaster, raising funds for the Corio Raptor Care centre. There’s also a Picasa web album of the owls if you [...]
Nostalgia
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 78 The disused railway station building at Halton. The railway itself is now the Lancaster Millenium cycleway. Sometimes, I confess, I wish it was still there. It had to be in sepia, though, didn’t it. I mean, I couldn’t not have done.
Bridge on the River Lune
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 66 The Jason Queally Millenium Footbridge over the Lune at Lancaster. Took this with the 18-55mm lens (which I later regretted as it meant that I cropped the top off the bridge) and a red filter to darken the sky.
Caton Green Welcomes Careful Drivers
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 64 I took this whilst wandering around looking for other things to photograph (and by other things I mean wooly, four legged things, since there are quite a few around these days and they like pose for the camera). I just liked [...]
My Green and Pleasant Land
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 62 I’m starting to feel like I’m repeating myself with shots like this, but what can you do?
Collapsing in the sun
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 49 This is the barn that I was shooting next to for yesterday’s photo. I said that I was going to try to capture it at sunrise, but this, its most interesting face, would be in shadow if I did that, so [...]
Oddly Menacing
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 47 Jubilee Tower, which overlooks Morecambe bay from one of the high points of the forest of Bowland. Colours and contrast altered in the Gimp, but otherwise untouched. And today, because you’re lucky, you get a bonus image.
