Having finished my last portfolio at the end of 2017 I can now start doing them yearly, so this one covers 2018. This includes two trips to the Canary islands, one to Gran Canaria in March and another to Fuerteventura in December as well as another long trip around Asia in the summer.
As an astronomy student and hobbyist, light pollution has sort of become my environmental issue of choice. Not only is it an annoyance to astronomers, but also damaging to wildlife as well as our health and is a large energy sink. I have taken particular notice of the amount of light pollution on my university’s campus lately as I am back living on campus after 2 years of living elsewhere, and my dissertation involves using the telescope on the roof of the physics building. This is a university that seems to boast about being green but seems to ignore this aspect of the environment.
"The pariah curs were baying the moon - it was only a quarter full and nearly down by midnight, but the dogs slept all day in the heat, and they had begun their moon-choruses already"
In another attempt at post-shooting photo series creation, I have put together a collection of architecture shots I took during my brief stay in Singapore in June of 2018.
This set of images begins where the last portfolio leaves off and primarily shows my travels during the summer of 2017, with the last image being the only one outside of that. I have again chosen to stick to black and white images taken with my Hasselblad for consistency, and because it’s what I primarily use. I am planning on doing one of these with the colour photos that I’ve taken since I started shooting square format.
This is a pair of photos that I took from the top floor of a pagoda in 小鱼山公园 (Xiaoyushan park, or Little Fish Hill Park) in Qingdao, China.
This series of photographs represents approximately a years worth of work, starting in when I got my Hasselblad. I chose to start then not because I feel that the change of camera increased the quality of images that I was producing but rather I wanted to keep the format consistent throughout. Also it was about a year after I started shooting film, and when I started pursuing photography as a hobby.
This is the remnants of a failed attempt at a photo project looking at Birmingham’s pedestrian subways. I never really thought it was a very good idea for a project but I decided to give it a go anyway because I wanted to try shooting a project and it was the best idea that I had, also the subways are the sort of thing that I usually like to shoot anyway.
I took this photo in Ma Tau Kok, Hong Kong on the way to visit the Kowloon Walled City Park. I don’t really remember much about my intentions behind the photo beyond this looks cool, although that is how I shoot most of the time. In hindsight, I would’ve liked to have framed slightly to the right to show a bit more of the truck and a bit less of the side of the building but I think overall the framing is quite interesting. The depth of field puts a slight softness on the shop fronts which I think works well to make the two guys on the trucks stand out a bit as well as giving the road, and that piece of litter, a more noticeable softness in the foreground. The one guy on the right stands out really well, framed perfectly in front of the white board, but I think the other guy, especially his head, blends into the background a bit.
I don’t actually know if they are scrap collectors, but that’s what it looks like to me.