Its flying time again...

Yesterday at midday i found myself boarding a plane from London Heathrow to go abroad, this time to Indonesia. I love going away and traveling but i hate waiting in airports and that is exactly what i am doing now. Im sitting in Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur making the most of the power supply and the free internet. Time wasting basically! Here is another 'classic' plane wing shot from my journey here...

End of Year Exhibition Model

Just finished my exhibition model for my end of year module. This was only a short module so there wasnt supposed to be a huge demanding outcome. My project was based on Brunel Laboratories, a building on campus that has been left behind in this digital age. I shot the whole 4 week project on large format and ended up shooting 28 5x4 negs. A lot of work i say. Anyway, here are some terrible mobile phone images of the model.

Processing...

Ooh the bore of processing 5x4 negs.. Each one is processed individually which takes aaages but thankfully, i have this trusty little automated agitator which is brilliant. Work in sketchbook, facebook and the excitement of fresh 5x4 negs! love it!

New Project - Brunel Labs

I have just started a new project for my final first year module. I am basing it around the Brunel Labs - one of the universities 'non-acedemic' buildings that houses workshops and labs used by the school of engineering and technology. Its a very interesting building and is often overlooked. What i find interesting is whats behind its closed doors to an outsider. I was granted permission and started my photographic dissection of the building today. Im doing the project entirely on large format 5x4" film as i rather liked it before.. Await more images, this is only the beginning! Image shot on Ilford Delta 100 Film

LOVE RIOT

Sorry i haven't posted anything on here for a while, after the last posts i had a deadline for my module at uni and had to finish off creating my book (await images of the book when i get back to uni) and then headed home for Easter. I have been taking a few film shots but lack of darkroom and processing facilities leaves me stranded. I am back shooting again for the surf school but last night shot some photos for a local night - LOVE RIOT. They came out pretty good and this is one of my mate Dirk - an instructor from the surf school.

More 5x4 / CCTV

Here are some more of my shots from my current project on CCTV. I shot these early this morning with perfect light and no one around. The main focus of the project is on CCTV so... spot the cameras! All shot on Ilford Delta 100 Sheet Film from a Sinar F 5x4 camera with a 90mm f8 lens.

5 X 4

Today i took my first image with a 5x4 large format view camera. It was an experience all in all but after i developed the neg i realized how much it paid off standing around waiting for the right moment. Anyway, here it is my first 5x4 image shot on Ilford Delta 100 - f/22 at 1/15th

More CCTV/London

Just come back from 24 hours in London... of which a few of i managed to take some photos and continue my surveillance project... Here is one of the images i got for the project. Hasselblad 500cm + Ilford Delta 100

CCTV

At uni we have just started a module on Bookworks. The project is totally self initiated and the Book is the only thing we have to produce as a final outcome, the rest is up to us! I am naturally loving this as I really don't like being guided so I thought a lot about what interests me in photography and what I can do a project on that will interest other people. I have settled on CCTV and surveillance as my main theme and i will look at issues in our contemporary world that involve the vast use of surveillance cameras and the idea that we have no privacy due to this. This is one of the first images I made for this theme on a recent trip to Bristol. More to come in the next few weeks... Fuji 690 III Medium Format Camera + Fujifilm Neopan 400 Film.

HARDY WINS!!

Ryan Hardy, the perfectionist bodyboarder from Australia has just won the first Grand Slam event of the 2009 IBA world tour at Pipeline, Hawaii. This is massive for Hardy as he has had a bit of a rocky path since he missed the 2006 world title by a tiny, tiny amount. He has been through some major illness and has recently been dropped by long term sponsor and backup, Billabong. This was a major shock to the bodyboard world and hopefully this win for Ryan has made them realize he has a lot of potential left in him. 2nd place went to French 19-year old Pierre Louis-Costes, 3rd to Guilherme Tamega and 4th to Dave Winchester. It was an epic final and well done to everyone i say! Here is a shot of PLC from last years comp, shame i couldn't be there again this year.