15 minutes down the road from where live is the town of St Ives. Probably the single most visited town in Cornwall by our lovely tourist, whilst also drawing, excuse the pun, would be Artists here as we have some of the best natural light in the UK. Thats something we photographers love too……
Ive lost count the number of times Ive shot content here for both work and play, but I have a rule in place that I always stick to providing in the weather is on my side. Shoot before 10am and after 3pm. Nothing in between. Why you ask?, well those are the times when I find the best light to shoot with none of the whiting over haze you often see in between those hours. Im not saying that this happens all of the time but I do know how the weather works down here and if there’s any haze, Im off.
The selection of the images I shot below are all with coastal colours in mind. You’re never short of finding colour here but if I may, a tip for you all, arrive early as you can as the place gets packed and those colours might get obscured by our lovely visitors
Choice of film stock that morning. Well, bearing in mind my first statement, “you'll alway find colour in St Ives” it had to be a roll of medium format Kodak Gold. Id run out of Ektar that morning and thats always my go to colour stock but Gold certainly came up with the goods that day - Shot on my Hassy 500. The perfect match…..