The Marks of Man

Out in November, to see some of the images got to the projects page on my site http://www.johnmaillard.com/communityHalls.html for more info on the book go to Canterbury University press http://www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz/catalogue/saturday_night.shtml

The next attempt to make the background  images and time-lapse for a Roy Montgomery performance in October.

From the BJP the use of social media photography in Photojournalisum http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/2202300/the-new-economics-of-photojournalism-the-rise-of-instagram

My tutor from Surrey the famous now and not then Martin Parr,  showed us his wet weather images, which I dont think he turned into a book.  Those were hard days, our head of Photography committed suicide, we were at  sea with no sight of land. Photography and creativity held us together.   

 I made this print tonight, felt like I had got my 5x4 out. The Image was made with a point and shoot. with some dodging and burning. The point and shoot is 20 mega-pixels and gives me raw files, my latest purchase from Sony an RX100. I had to be very careful with the exposure as it is very hard to get a sharp capture. I am a bit worried about diffraction after f8. Very small dials with cold fingers, felt a bit silly with a tiny camera on a big tripod.  A very wet day, near the summit road After that I made this Time lapse two hours in the cold, I put my coat on the camera to keep it dry. Four thousand exposures later and a print based action in Photoshop batch processed. I want a still image with a hint of time and a video with a hint of stillness.

 Rapaki Testing a new idea for a project. Running a bit fast at the moment at 30 frames, so I could knock the time back a bit.