July in Context..

I'm currently coming to terms with the fact that my favourite film Portra 400VC is being discontinued, it works so well with my Contax T2 and I happily tell half the people I meet this fact.  So it might as well be online for all to see ; )

Here's a bunch of blurry photos from July, taking in Melt festival in Germany, lots of all night fun amongst giant cranes by a lake, Arthur the kitten and Alice Gold 'End Of The World' video shoot.
 

 

White Lies 'Holy Ghost'

Here's a few of my favourite photos from the White Lies 'Holy Ghost' video shoot, this particular scene makes up one part of an amazing video directed by CANADA that was all shot on 35mm.  Just the fact they were shooting 35mm blew my mind, let alone the whole recreating the sermon on the mount on a rock out to sea complete with a sheep.  Was such a cool day, and we had a 2 hour lunch of squid and local wine, best day at the office ever I think.

The extras were from a local church re-enactment group, deeply religious themselves and the sight of the guys in beards walking across the water will live in my mind for a long time.  Check out the video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Orl42Y-c4I

Photos taken on Contax T2 (love it!) and Lumix GF1 (love it too!)

Contax Round Up - March 2011

Here's a jumble of photos from my replacement Contax T2, damn I'm such a geek about this camera.  It's just the purest photo making tool I know, or perhaps just the laziest with it's minimal controls and beautiful lens.  I've also just learnt that my favourite film Posertra 400VC is being discontinued, well merged with the 400NC, what this really means I don't know but it's another unfortunate milestone in the decline of film.  I found one supplier in South Korea that's still selling it at a reasonable price so I got 30 rolls : )

This mess of photos is from March, an amazing month that saw me travel to Hamburg and Berlin with Michael Kiwanuka and freeze in-front of a room full of journalists at the Foreign Press Association benefit evening for Japan.  After about 20seconds luckily I managed to snap out of it and gave my slide show of Lost Village photos, it was really an honour to be able to show them for such a good cause.  Here's me giving the talk.

First Post of 2011... da ...da

It's been an interesting one already for me, things kicked off with my well loved Contax T2 getting stolen with another camera, lenses and my swimming trunks (at least I got a bit of payback) from under my seat in a pub.  Maximum bummer!  Thanks for good friends, they waited at the police station where the desk person there was complaining about making a wrong life choice, saying she should have been a teacher.  Dispiriting all round, they took me for food afterwards, it felt tasteless and cold, I took the tube home, for once lacking my customary bag but making a mental note of everything I'd lost.  Ipod, house keys, shit house keys! and water bottle from the Japan trip.  I'd lost it at least three times before but someone had found fit to track me down. 

The next day I had a wedding to photograph, the couple are just 23 and I was thinking positive.  I didn't really have to try, was such a beatiful occasion that I was swept along with the tide. 

Anyway here's some of the last photos from my Contax T2, I'm currently trying to track one down that's not too pricey.  So hopefully wont be the last of it's sharp and saturated gems.

It's 2011, have fun : )

 

Pumpkin & Pecan Pies : )

 

 Me and the only and only Kevin King on a f**kin tank : )