Prestbury Living magazine has one of my photos on the cover this month, the same image is also used (rather more effectively) as background for an inside spread where its effect is quite impressive. I supplied several images for this but the one that I felt to be most appropriate for the cover has not [...]
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Tagged: cover photo, oliver wood, photography, prestbury living
I recently tried a little “light painting” for the first time, for those not in the know light painting is a night photography technique where one illuminates the subject with a portable light source whilst the camera shutter is open on a long exposure or even ‘bulb’ setting. Obviously the camera needs to be mounted [...]
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Tagged: light painting, photography
It is now almost eight months since I last had a cigarette and all cravings are a thing of the past. I looked pretty young for my age before but now I have youthfulized by about another five years I reckon. Skin is much smoother, circulation greatly improved and I have almost boundless energy and [...]
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Tagged: halcyon days, photography, summer
Feeling a bit glum this evening as my situation is now becoming something of a worry. Still, everything passes and all things improve as a matter of the natural course of life, or so I have found! It’s just that this period of immobility is tending to linger rather too long and I am concerned [...]
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Tagged: employment, grass cutting, photography, prestbury, rob, st peters churchyard
St Peters Churchyard 16th March 09 Again we write with an almost empty head but it is necessary to make the obligatory seasonal entry. Things are still pretty much the same for yours truly and as previously mentioned there is a sense of a state of becalmed relaxation, which is very pleasant. Of course it [...]
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Tagged: gilles peterson, halcyon days, jazz, Joyce & Nava Vasconselos, music, photography, prestbury, st peters churchyard
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 [...]
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Tagged: beards, black and white, facial hair, monochrome, photography
The weather has been slightly more unsettled today with a little intermittent drizzle. Lighting conditions will still not permit me to undertake a few local photo experiments, which I have in mind; but things are bound to change soon. Heading out of Bollington and deep into the night. Last night I managed to do a [...]
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Tagged: bollington, bollipot loop, light painting, night ride, photography