During the 30 plus years that I had my own darkroom, I regularly made black and white photographs, using one or another of my Leica M cameras. They have become surprisingly heavy as I grow older, and, in recent years, the few times I have used one, I have had to scan the negatives and make digital prints.
I nearly always have some kind of camera with me in case I notice a subject that wants to be defined by a 5 x 7 rectangle. My images might be country or urban, around home or in distant lands, usually while walking. I chose these three images because each one leads somewhere. The pavement was taken with an iPhone 5s; the path with a Nikon CoolPix, and the ladder in the wall with a Leica M3, all within the past two or three years.
My best advice along the way came from a Leica salesman: it’s much better to change perspective than to change lenses. As I walk, looking around, camera in hand (or not), I’m always changing perspective and often seeing anew.
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From February 2021 ~
Daily walks continue and so does the sighting of objects along my path.
This tangle of dead branches brought to mind the tangle of being in lockdown. One day I placed in it an equally tangled metal puzzle which, with carefully planned disassembly, might symbolise freeing ourselves from the tangle of the pandemic.
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I regularly stop to photograph a long tree branch which sits on the ground near the path. The small tangled pattern in the grain caught my attention.
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Two leaves, stuck on one another.
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Something green, growing bravely in an unlikely spot.
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A lovely fairy appeared along a woodland path.
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