Photography

August

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A random(ish) set of images from August, in no particular order, taken while travelling in Northern Italy. This summer, it has been difficult to walk much because of the heat. Most of these were therefore taken on short walks, the most ambitious being a hike around the Lago di Alpe Gera in Valmalenco. One of the images above shows a mountain-scape in which there are a few small fragments of remaining glaciation, with copious water pouring out. 100 years ago, that scene would have been almost entirely ice. It has […]

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Nature

Castelmezzano

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A short set of images take while hiking earlier this year at Castelmezzano, a mountain village in the south of Italy. Although the town is trying to promote mass tourism (in the form of zip wires, sledging runs, and quad biking), go there when out of the main season and you will find abundant natural beauty and plenty of quiet walks through the villages and hills. Pleasant memories to try to forget the chaotic furnace that is Barcelona right now. All images were shot with the Q3, with cropping to […]

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Photography

Matera

Matera City
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A set of images from Matera and the surrounding area. Matera is a unique city in southern Italy set on the edge of a deep gorge that cuts in to soft limestone in which there are many caves both natural and excavated. The unique setting, architecture and long history, with continuous settlement dating back to the Paleolithic have earned the city UNESCO World Heritage status. Much of the modern part of the city is familiar territory to anyone used to exploring Italy, with its mix of chaotic, dense construction and […]

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Photography

Postcards from Napoli

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A short set of images taken on a trip to Naples, Italy. This was very much a sightseeing trip, but there are still some interesting contrasts to be drawn and lots of very photogenic scenes, of which these are only a small subset. The images were mostly shot around the Quartieri Spagnoli and surroundings, using a fixed-lens 28mm compact camera which worked excellently with the subject matter. Processing used DxO PhotoLab 8.2, with FilmPack for a slightly modified Kodachrome emulation and ViewPoint for the some geometry corrections.

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Postcards from Seoul

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A final set of images from Seoul, documenting architecture and scenes around the mega city. These span from Incheon in the West down to Hanam in the East and were shot over several months of walks in the city and its surroundings. All images were shot with the GFX100s, mostly using the 55mm lens and a polariser to bring out the colour on saturated surfaces. The camera worked really well despite frequently damp conditions, and although weight was frequently an issue switching from a cross-shoulder strap to a waist belt […]

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Black and White

Kōchi Digression

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This post has a set of images taken on a short trip to Kochi, in Shikoko prefecture back in May. This was a short trip, travelling light with more than 100km of walking in conditions that encompassed everything from cloudless sun to monsoon-like storms. The images below are some of my favourites from the trip, and are a small subset of a much larger documentary set that looks various aspects of the local culture, centred around the water, fishing and food. Overall, this was a fascinating experience, arriving with pre-conceptions […]

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Landscape

Hangang

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A short set of images taken walking along the banks of the Hangang river in Seoul. This was a particularly rainy and wet time and there were few people around, often giving the illusion of an abandoned city – an illusion that is easily broken if you are just a little higher and can see all the traffic! I am still finding my feet at the moment and I will write more on Seoul and Korea when I have had enough time to understand the region better than I do […]

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Eight

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A set of eight images from the eighth month of the year, shot while on vacation in northern Italy. As always, fragments of life seem to make the most interesting images. As usual, there are always the shrines: And bizarrely, I found a number of different houses with Disney characters outside. I am not sure why Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is so popular with mountain communities. I also tried some artsy fragments of scenes, with mixed success. There should probably be a lifetime quota for shots of aging […]

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Sofia

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The first post for 2021, with some images taken on a recent work trip to Bulgaria. Street and social-documentary photography has been badly curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in Barcelona there are heavy restrictions on all forms of movement, with both a curfew and limitations how far it is possible to move. Added to this is the expectation of social distancing, which makes conventional street photography with a wide-angle lens and close proximity with people problematic. Street photography is invariably something that feels risky, but with a highly contagious […]

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Snapshots from Berlin

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A set of tourist snapshots captured while on a short trip to Berlin. It is a fascinating city with a rich, complex and often tragic history, and it would be interesting to have time to undertake a more in depth photographic project there. All images shot with the Leica M10 and 50mm Summilux. I did take a wide-angle lens as well, but never used it because 50mm always just seems right.

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Film

Italy: Wide and Normal

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A short selection of images taken while visiting friends and family in Italy over New Year. For some unknown reason, these were all taken using older Zenit film cameras. The first set were shot with the Horizon 202 panoramic camera – a camera that begs to be used but which still needs more time to figure out how to get the most interesting results (compare, for example, the images with massive distortion vs those that look entirely undistorted – the result of simply tilting the camera a few degrees and […]

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Landscape

Come Walk With Me…

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A short set of images taken around the piers in Brighton, during a rather stormy period. I have been meaning to try to take some pictures of the old piers for some time, although the original intention of making some long exposure sea-scapes was largely thwarted thanks to a slight aversion to the gale-force winds that were seemingly laced with sleet for much of the time…  

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Dolce Vita

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A photo essay contrasting mass tourism in Asturias and Cantabria against city life in the same region. This reflects the growing tensions between increasingly wealthy and mobile tourists and and increasingly impoverished local population that sees little benefit from the tourist industry.

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