Two years ago I visited Stonehenge. I’ve been there many times. I used to go to school in the local village way back in the 70’s. If you visit during normal hours it’s difficult to get shots without people in them. In this case I decided to make at least one part of the composition. I noticed an Artist drawing the Henge. So with my 20mm Nikkor on my Leica MP I took this
Tag: MP
The morning crossword
Todays Shot shows that you don’t have to travel any great distance to get a great shot. I took this at the kitchen table. My wife doing the crossword. What makes this shot for me is the light and the slight movement as she raises the mug.
The everyday occurrences become art (If you will excuse the pretentiousness)
Its Been A Long Time.
To Give you some idea of just how long this VW has stood here look at the wing mirror grown into the tree. The arm has rotted away you can still see the impression..
Kneel At The Alter of the Urban Church
Todays shot is from the same abandoned hospital as the wheelchair shots earlier.When I first saw this shot while scanning I saw the light falling on the cushion of the chair and fell in love
Wheelchair in the corner
Another wheelchair in the same hospital. I took this shot on my first visit here. I love the paint peel in the background.I added a vignette for effect.
Electric Chair
One of my favourite subjects besides people.I love to photograph dereliction and abandoned places and things or Urban exploration as it is better known.
This is one of my favourites from a series I did over two visits to a local abandoned psychiatric hospital. I’ll share some more soon.
Picture wise this was taken with a tripod mounted Leica MP with a 20mm Nikkor 20mm lens via a Novoflex adapter using Ilford XP2 .The negative was scanned on my Epson V700
The Salt Merchant
Just to show that I do take the occasional colour shot I offer you to start one of my favourite casual portrait shots taken at a local Viking market. This wonderful Danish Gentleman was selling smoked salt.I asked if I could take his picture and this was the result. As the market is only every other year I had to wait two years to give him a print.
Emily@f1.4
This was taken two years ago . My daughter has to suffer when I buy a new lens. This is one I took of her by the window in her bedroom with no other lighting.I used my then New Summilux 50mm f1.4 wide open.
Emily Laughs
My Favourite model.
My now 16 year old daughter Emily. This was taken in natural light on Ilford Xp2
The Reader
One of my all time favourite shots Taken a while back while having lunch in Bergen.
I took the shot between the shoulders of the two friends sitting opposite me. I love the way the light fell on her hair and hand.
My Photographic World 