Last of the snow scene photos from winter 2010. The image has been treated with the intention of replicating the look of traditional printing on gold toned Ilford grade 2 fiber based paper. Minimalism is one of the most difficult “design categories” to achieve in landscape photography but having much of the ground covered in snow does help.
A night roaming around the Cheshire village of Prestbury, totally deserted (or so it seemed) well it was after midnight on a Sunday! This bench has a lot of significance for me, many afternoons were spent in deep and humorous conversation with one of my local pals here.
Really very little to say tonight, I have re-grown a beard — yet again — and may be clean shaven by the time this goes to press, I reckon people must be starting to think I have some sort of schizophrenic personality disorder with all of these constant appearance changes.
I’m really stuck in a black and white mode at the moment and doing almost nothing in colour. There are a lot more of my self portraits on flickr of course.
Right now I feel strangely detached from everything, nothing is having any effect on me at the moment and life feels strangely, unreasonably, comfortable and easy, Well at least on that more mundane material level of simply existing if you know what I mean.
As usual I’m listing to Giles Peterson’s recent show and it is a good’un tonight. Eclectic as ever, but we have a rather satisfying cross section of Latin and Euro jazz. I mean we have just gone from Michel Legrand to Stereolab and then some wonderfully obscure 1976 collaboration between Joyce & Nava Vasconselos on the always interesting ‘far Out’ label. I’m getting quite fixated with the contemporary Latin Jazz and soul thing at the moment.