Portfolio IV - 2019

2019 was another active year for me, with a trip to Venice in July and then a long trip to Barcelona, the U.S, Vietnam, Thailand but mostly Taiwan. I only shot colour film in Vietnam and Thailand so those won’t appear here, and my film from Thailand was actually the first film I’ve posted to a lab due to running out of chems and Corona, and they were annoyingly lost before they made it there.

I didn’t do as much towards photo series in 2019 as I would’ve liked to. I did make together my New York Architecture post and put together a series of images I shot in Nottingham since I started studying there. I did think about starting a series many times throughout the year but I left Nottingham in June and didn’t know where I was going to be in the longer term so I didn’t want to start anything big that I wouldn’t be able to finish.

Black & white photo of a secion of metal fence laying on a grassy verge, atom which is a tall wire fench with a gap in the bottom right, through which the top of an apartment building can be seen

Brinklow Tower

Black & white photo of a large old bare oak tree in the fog, with frost on the surrounding grass

Wollaton Oak

Black & white photo from the inside of a cave at the side of a beach, with rough white waters and then a cliff at the other end of the beach with 2 large houses on the side

Llangrannog Beach

Black & white photo of an unpaved road through a forest of tall pines on a slope

Talley Woodland

Black & white photo of a silhouette of a tree at the edge of a lake, under which are two deer

Wollaton Deer

A wooden door in a concrete wall left of centre, to the right cornered steps rising up two thids of the way up the frame with dark trees in in the background above, black and white

Nordic Pavilion

Black & white photo of a wide modernist apartment block with a tall windowless tower in the centre

Chatham Green

Black & white photo of a corner shop called Americana Submarine taken across a junction underneath an elevated railway

Americana Submarine

Black & white photo looking up at a rounded curvy brutalist apartment tower behind some trees

Hilliard Towers

Black & white photo of a breakwater made of large concrete shapes protruding from a rocky beach, being hit by small waves

Hualien Breakwater

Black & white photo of a park underneath a motorway, with 4 large concrete pillars on the right to centre of the image, and another on the left

Huajiang Riverside Park

Black & white photo of a dramatic cloudy sky with a small electricity pylon and power lines silhouetted in front

Power Lines

As usual all of these images were, again, shot with my Hasselblad 500C/M and 60mm CF and 150mm CF lenses on Ilford film. Mostly HP5+ at 400 or 800, but the last shot is at 3200, and two in the middle are Pan F+.


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