and of course...
like a boss !
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
south of the river
i had a shoot south of the river this morning.
i parked up near to a portuguese cafe / bar
and had this incredibly strong coffee. i asked for a double espresso
but it was like a quadruple espresso... maybe even bigger.
it was a very strange place. it was a big cafe with heaps of tables
and about 5 minutes after i sat down, the place filled up. i mean, really
filled up. strangers came in and shared tables, people standing up too.
everything in the place was portuguese, the newspapers, the telly, the
staff, and no word of a lie i was the only non-portuguese person in there.
it didn't have menus and i needed something to eat to help my coffee.
i asked the waitress if i could have what the other people were eating
( everybody seemed to be eating toasted buns ) and she said in broken
english " sorry, speaka no english "
she made no effort to find anybody who did and lots more people came in
so i decided to make a move.
i was just looking on the net to find the place and all i could find was this
review...
a pretty similar review to mine. it looks like a great place but perhaps
it's only meant for portuguese people ?
a bathing ape
i had no idea how many bathing ape t-shirts i had until i just
ironed a few... twelve of them !
it made me go to my wardrobe and count the others...
gulp !
in the wardrobe i've got another nineteen bape short sleeve t-shirts.
time to start wearing and to stop spending.
breakfast
another healthy breakfast at whitfield towers
pears, pineapple, grapes, blueberries, yoghurt and honey.
standard.
i've started to see things in the froth on the top of the coffee recently...
but i won't tell you what i see here !
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
carmen's story
i did a shoot with my friend and ex-assistant, carmen.
i showed her the locations i had in mind and she put together
a story for the shoot... two stylish punk-type girls living together
in the car park and bin sheds of a large building.
i don't think any captions are needed. i'll just post the photos.
new york ( disappointing ) stories
i had an exhibition of travel photography a couple of years ago.
two of the prints which sold best were both taken in new york.
i think one of them is without doubt, my favourite ever photograph.
( what i mean is, my favourite photo that i have taken )
here it is...
it's used as one of my business cards and is also the home page of my website
i wish i had an interesting story about it, or that i could tell you about all the hard
work and preparation that went into taking the shot but...
i was in a yellow cab with a couple of colleagues the day after i did the new york
marathon... well, what i mean is, the day after i photographed the new york marathon.
i love yellow cabs and i'm always photographing them ( i'll put up a yellow cab post
tomorrow to prove it ) anyway, as we were driving along, another yellow cab drove
alongside us. i wound the window down and took 3 shots of it with my
leica minilux. one frame totally out of focus, one frame pretty average and this
was the final frame of the roll of film that i had in the camera !
it's pretty much the full frame. maybe i'm biased because i like yellow cabs
but i love this pic. the colour, the stencilling and of course the reflections in the window.
especially the 'i love lucy' part.
the other photo from new york i don't like anywhere near as much, but it is the
print which i sold the most of. my friend andy hooper who is a noted
sports photographer thinks this is a great photo too. perhaps it's because
i don't have a story about it. i think it's just a snapshot, not something
i tried for ages to get right ?
here it is...
once again it was taken with my trusty leica minilux using kodak
something or other negative film. ( yikes i've forgotten the names
of the films i used to use )
i was with my friend neil and we had just had breakfast at a diner
and were walking back to our hotel. he told me he had to make a
quick call from a phonebox and that he'd only be two minutes.
i just hung around near the phonebox and looked around.
i looked up at the empire state, probably photographed a few yellow
cabs going by, then looked down at a puddle infront of me.
hmmm...
i took two frames and neil said "come on mate" and away we went.
i must admit that when i got the film processed and printed, i was
very pleased with this shot...
but it's not as good as the yellow cab shot now is it ?
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