Tag: film

Pinholes at Westonbirt

30/10/201231/07/2018 By shendyNo Comments

I spent Saturday afternoon building myself a panoramic pinhole camera that I'd picked up from Photographique in Bristol. It's actually quite impressive - well engineered with good quality joins and all the bits of tape you need included. On Sunday, we met some friends at Westonbirt Arboretum (along with about half of the rest of the population of the south-west) and I gave it a go - along with shooting some Fuji Provia slide film in my dad's Contax G2. Unfortunately I've got to wait 10+ days for that roll to come back. Anyway, here are the photos from the pinhole - and they're really quite good. I shall experiment a bit more! ...

Getting all Historical

14/05/201008/04/2015 By shendyNo Comments

Thinking about published photos of mine, it reminded me of by far and away my most successful picture. This is legendary Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee being carried off the pitch in Northampton in 1988, after he'd slipped and knackered his ankle ligaments. Basically, I scooped the world on this one. I was the only person on the ground with a camera on a fairly dull day in a match against Leicestershire. I offered the photo to the resident journalist from the Chronicle and Echo, and they published it on the front page. It was also printed in Wisden and Cricketer magazines. I must have made all of £30-40 out of it. Mind you, to a student 22 years ago, that was a decent bit of cash! And it's in Lillee's autobiography "Menace". When the book came out, I just happened to see it in Borders and had a flick through. And blimey, there was one of my photos! I rang up the publishers and...