Crop Dog

As I said, I have been trawling through lots of photos taken over the past few years. Here is one that I took coming into land at Edinburgh Airport. I remember seeing the dog like shape in the foreground and rushed to get the camera set up and waited until I was level with it. I got lucky as it was taken through such a tiny window and you know what aeroplane windows can be like - scratched, iced up, etc.

Cala Sant Vicenc, Mallorca

Of course he is

I've been trawling through my photos for a forthcoming exhibition. Having been digitaless for a few weeks means I am taking more film pics which is nice but has meant applying a different attitude and level of expectancy. With film I always liked the 'delayed' process - from taking the picture to seeing the negative to finally seeing a print. I think that is what is now commonly termed a 'workflow'. Then digital gave me that immediacy which is also great, more spontaneous and playful, but I thought that the 'have it now' process diminished something inside my head to do with memory. But going back through many hundreds of kept pictures has rekindled that feeling of delay (memory) and I've come across images that I hadn't noticed before, perhaps things that didn't mean that much at the time but do now. I'll stop now as I can feel myself getting all T S Ellioty, "Time present and time past" and all that. I'll post some more pics soon,once I get my head around the exhibition.

In praise of the TLR

Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

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Kiel Johnson's Cardboard Twin Lens Reflex Camera Time Lapse from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

Fife Open Art Exhibition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDrEFxuOJU

Amazing...I won a Shell Award for my entry into the Fife Open Art Exhibition! Sadly I was unable to collect the award in person as I was working - we had the opening concert of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's new season in the Usher Hall. The troops went to accept it for me as the video link wasn't working ;-)

Thanks to Dee Dee for managing to capture and upload this!

Barry Island Baby

I love out of season seaside towns - I grew up in one, although it was sometimes in season - and Barry Island met my need for that dirty realist charm very nicely. Seaside towns speak to me, whispering in my ear “I am what you could have been” along with the sea breeze.

Sunrise

Here are 3 images taken a couple of weeks ago. The sunrise over the Firth of Forth was spectacular. I just marvelled at it until a little voice inside my head said "go and get you camera you idiot, it'll be gone soon". Or was that my son talking from under the duvet? I got some straight shots and then my youngest son wanted to take one so I let him. The weight of the camera meant the image was blurred, but we liked the result and I had a go, slowly panning the camera from side to side.