I’ve been blogging lazy lately, lack of time, distractions, things happening, being tired by the time I have the time to do it, usual stuff. But I’ve just purchased a 50D, I’m now dying to get out and start taking photographs again. We did make a foray to Ely cathedral, but in my haste to get the camera productive, I missed one f the mainstay settings, and ended up with some rather fluffy photos that I wasn’t happy with.
This comes from a batch of shots at the weekend at Norwich Cathedral, sadly the main building was shut due to an event, but the cloisters were open which allowed me and my trusty son to saunter about and snap a bit. I’m quite happy with this one. almost balanced, but not quite, at least it’s sharp. One thing I have realised now is, My lenses aren’t all that, and I probably need to get a Caon walkabout instead of my Sigma.
I seriously love this photograph, it’s the red arrows, it was just the worst weather possible, I may have blogged it before, but I’m doing it again, because it’s probably my favourite photo I’ve managed to squeeze out of my camera.
I like these little silver lines in the sky, I know there’s too many. My son used to call them “Buzz Lightyears”.
An angry tit to be precise, something I get accused of being too, usually by mrs V.
He was angry about a cat though, not the price of shoes.
thought I’d try something slightly different to see if it would nudge me out of the incapable of taking a decent photo coma I’m in.
I’ve had a fling with this Car Park for a while, and I can’t help but go back and take more photos of it when we go up to Sheffield and indeed poke about through old ones I’ve taken looking for ones I might have missed like this one.
It does appear in this photo to have all the thought of a nasty forklift accident in a supermarket warehouse, but i love my geometrics, which is something to do with my day persona which is at least in part graphic designer type person. I spend a lot of my time making round things fit into square things and so on, and then being told by clients to put them back, or move them three mil to the left or right over and over again, but it does all tend to hinge on things being more or less lined up with each other along various planes, I realised the other day how obsessive about compositional position I can get, straight horizons, exact-ish fractions of a frame, this doesn’t do that, it is like looking into a pile of really smooth aluminium boxes, which is exactly what you are looking at, although someone has cut them all in half and attached them to the outside of a car park. It’s nickname is “The cheesegrater”, you’d need some pretty large cheddar.
a couple of years old, worth the effort to dig out and muck about with I hope.
The photo is a couple of years old that is not Scroobius.
I ain’t gonna take it no more…
I promised myself I’d try and blog more often, so the very small number of people who follow me, have something to follow. I’d also promisd myself I’d write about stuff that mattered a bit, and not just post flickr stuff all the time, which is a cop out. fail on all fronts, I think this is because I’m a visual person. i have this friend Martin, he’s a poet, a proper published one with books and that, I like poetry and words and reading and that, but what I’ve realised whilst talking to Martin is that when he listens to music he likes the words, which is why he likes people like Randy Newman, whereas I’m just as likely to listen to Mogwai which has no words or some random drum and bass which has samples from a gangster film in it or some weird old 80s new wave stuff which is shouty. the conclusion I came to was that, i like a whole sound, rather than bits of a sound, or the words behind it. I think I’m a bit like that with what I do, which is design and what my hobbies are (for there are many) most of which involve taking something and processing it in some way to make it look a bit like how I want it to be. sometimes I see the words, sometimes I don’t.
anyway I wrote all that and didn’t mention the photo above once, which is Elliot House in Norwich, which I’m quite pleased with.
This section is actually falling to bits, I think it’s a combination of the cold winter, and the lack of any maintenance whatsoever, I calculated using the particularly complex scientific method of locking at all the mortar spoil and flints lying on the ground and looking at the wall that this will all be not here soon, unless someone starts to maintain it. This piece and the Jarrold section are without doubt the weakest parts left.
This was built on Marsh, pretty much from to St Benedicts Gate to the River and surrounding Helgate (Westwick Street) which could account for the height of it, ie it’s sunk a bit, along with the ground level rise through time.
There are no further remains visible, so basically from Toy r expensive to the River it’s all gone, including the rather magnificent Helgate I’d look up the Ninham stuff if you’re interested. Then onto the natural defence that was the river, I’m not sure if there was a watergate here, I suspect there would have been something, as there is at Carrow. I did read a report on this section being excavated in the 1950s I think, they found some rather nice tower bases etc. I’ll try and dig it out. The report that is, not the tower base.
