Kelenfold power station has been photographed numerous times in recent years. Just do a search on google it and you'll see just how much. What hasn't been seen though is an area of the station that I managed to gain access too. Below are a few of those shots plus a few other shots you might not of seen from different angles etc. Every photographer has their own view on how they see a shot. A big thank you to the guys at Kelenföld for my private viewing
my guide
I bought a multiple pack of assorted film from those lovely peeps at Impossible the other day which included a pack of expired black and white SX 70 film. Production date was 12/16 so it had only expired super recently. You can get some great results from expired film and if Im honest I did get one or two with it. All of the images below were shot during the day with clear cornish skies and the lighten/darken control on the camera ramped up to its darkest setting.
Whichever city or country you visit these days, you'll always come across "Street art" in some way or form. Some good, some bad but they all have one thing in common, expressing and displaying their work where ever they can. On a recent visit to Lithuania, I came across some of the Eastern Europeans artists work. I only captured the best.
I hadn't planned to visit Vilnius but seeing as I was only one and a half hours away in Kaunas, I thought Id travel up there and see what going on. I wasn't really sure what Id expect to find but as long as it wasn't just uninteresting tourist related stuff then Id be happy. My first and only interesting find was what can only be described as a piece of brutal soviet influenced architecture. Concrete and grey this shocking attempt at design has all the typical characteristics of eastern European design minds gone mad. It was more about a statement of communism than a functional building.
The building and the surrounding land appeared to form part of a leisure complex that has clearly been left and now sits on the Vilnius landscape like a carbuncle. A shame really.
Jeannie, Jeannie, yellow and black
lying empty and waiting to embark.
Into the bay and round the mount
Real Cornish elm helping you out.
Oars in the water
oars in the air
powering through the salty swell
I was once called "Sally" and built by Peter
Im solid, Im solid there's is no mistake
of wood that is seasoned and designed to shape
My oars lie waiting for hands to grip
Im branded with white lettering
and "Mounts Bay" in black.
Come race me, come race me
in Cornish waters
and see if you have what you need to challenge me
Don't miss out you lovely peeps on another cracking giveaway from Ray Larose. He's teamed up with Micheal Pretzsch who has kindly donated a sweet Polaroid Spectra plus 8 packs of Impossible colour/B&W film and a Tamrac camera bag. Cracking prize. What do I need to do? Well, follow this link and good luck. My submission is in! Fingers crossed
I spent some time recently with Budapest's Maffia. Armed with their bikes, they set about bring "Racial acts of kindness" to those less fortunate than ourselves. I refer to the Budapests homeless.Thank you to the girls at Casimir for publishing my article and thank you to Voltan & Kata for allowing me to join. Check out their web and Facebook links below:
www.bbm.hu/en
www.facebook.com
A big thank you to those lovely Salty people at Salt Magazine for publishing the recent "foraged & free" piece I put together in and around the town of St Ives. These guys publish some great on line content from a selection of some very talented photographers. It's nice to be considered to sit along side these guys & girls that provide some inspiring work
Please keep up your salty work...
Along the coast there are extra eyes
keeping a visual on how we run our lives
checking the weather and routes we travel
on the seas and over the horizon
Our powerful optics record our visuals
noted down and filed religiously
to ensure we do what we’re told
completing the log of how our days unfold
St Ives, St Ives, this is our station
where Steve & Clive make their observations
keeping an eye on all that sails past
from hidden wrecks to rocky outcrops
We volunteer our time keeping our visuals
ensuring safe passage for ships & vessels
travelling our seas on business or pleasure
so make good your journey
and we'll bid you farewell
Go safely, go safely and remember this
we will keep watching
just in case there’s something a miss
www.nci-stives.org
I got myself this Petri 7s a few weeks back and haven't had chance to use it as yet. So, I thought why not try it with a roll of Kodaks Portra.
A cracking film offering a high speed with little noise. Great in low light situations,superb sharpness and unmatched colour saturations
As for the Petri, its another one of those "poor mans Leica" rangefinders we here about. It will never be a Leica but it will always be a good quality budget end rangefinder. I'll post the results..
We are very British, no matter how you see us. Over the next few months I will be documenting just how very British we are.
Part 1 - bowling
Bowling, bowling, green grass and hats
woods, mats, slacks and cracks
rolling at speed, then slowing it down
scoring the points and writing it down
Flat shoes we wear to keep our greens fair
so our woods will travel with the greatest of care
numbers turn over as we score the points
from end to end then we bowl again
Keep them clean, count them all
home, away the scores on the doors
we're highly competitive when we step on our green
and hopefully win the game we spin
We're watched from all angles and from behind the club glass
passing the odd comment and perhaps even a laugh
at the way the games going and how they all play
hoping that Penzance will be win their game
Bowling, bowling its a love of ours
with most of us play when we're retired
Its not the fastest game in the world
but lets not forget were British and proud.
It's really interesting to see the difference that can be obtained with the same film. I'm referring to the £1 Agfa 200 film I used about a month ago. That was shot on my Yashica. This time I used the second roll on a Olympus Trip 35. This roll was run at 200 asa unlike the first roll, that was at 100 asa. However, I'm so pleased with the images. A slightly richer feel to them. Quite sharp too bearing in mind that the Trip is a point and shoot camera.
