Beechwood
Images
ABOUT
I am not the worlds greatest
photographer. . .
…but I like taking photographs. I also enjoy the equipment and the mechanical aspects of photography.Equipment
I use Fujifilm camera equipment. I once spent a day at Brooklands carrying a DSLR and half a dozen heavy lenses; by the end of the afternoon I could barely raise my arms. * Anyway, I downsized and now use a Fuji X T5 camera body. I find wide angle lenses the most useful for my photography; I use 14mm (21mm equ) 10 - 24mm (15 - 36 equ) great for museums. 18mm (27 equ) pancake lens 27mm (41 equ) - compact pancake lens. Also: 18 - 55 (27 - 84 equ) useful all-purpose. 50 - 230 (76 - 350) small, light, telephoto. The 18mm seems ”glued” to my T5 these days. Useful prime focal length, f2, aperture ring and focuses down to about 10cm. I also have Fuji X100F - fixed lens but very good and very useful. * (I do recall that later that day I got a ride back to Weybridge station on a Routemaster - and I got to pull the bell - Bliss!)
Above This is me examining the stripped and
polished underbelly of a Jaguar aircraft.
I’ve always been fascinated by military
machinery; growing up in the 1950’s in Britain
the images were everywhere. A degree of
maturity brought the realisation that all this
innovation, power and, yes, glamour was
ghastly and futile.
Subsequently I tried to show something of this
in my photography.
In 2010, artist Fiona Banner exhibited two
aircraft at Tate Britain.
Two decomissioned fighting aircraft were
presented, in an incongruous setting, in
postures suggesting, I think, supplication,
redundancy and futility.
The exhibition made a big impression on me -
it was a succinct realisation of my ideas.
Left The suspended Sea Harrier at the
exhibition.
ABOUT
I am not the worlds
greatest
photographer. . .
…but I like taking photographs. I also enjoy the equipment and the mechanical aspects of photography.Equipment
I use Fujifilm camera equipment. I once spent a day at Brooklands carrying a DSLR and half a dozen heavy lenses; by the end of the afternoon I could barely raise my arms. * Anyway, I downsized and now use a Fuji X T5 camera body. I find wide angle lenses the most useful for my photography; I use 14mm (21mm equ) 10 - 24mm (15 - 36 equ) great for museums. 18mm (27 equ) pancake lens 27mm (41 equ) - compact pancake lens. Also: 18 - 55 (27 - 84 equ) useful all-purpose. 50 - 230 (76 - 350) small, light, telephoto. The 18mm seems ”glued” to my T5 these days. Useful prime focal length, f2, aperture ring and focuses down to about 10cm. I also have Fuji X100F - fixed lens but very good and very useful. * (I do recall that later that day I got a ride back to Weybridge station on a Routemaster - and I got to pull the bell - Bliss!)
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SIMPLICITY
Above This is me examining the stripped and
polished underbelly of a Jaguar aircraft.
I’ve always been fascinated by military machinery;
growing up in the 1950’s in Britain the images were
everywhere. A degree of maturity brought the
realisation that all this innovation, power and, yes,
glamour was ghastly and futile.
Subsequently I tried to show something of this in
my photography.
In 2010, artist Fiona Banner exhibited two aircraft
at Tate Britain.
Two decomissioned fighting aircraft were
presented, in an incongruous setting, in postures
suggesting, I think, supplication, redundancy and
futility.
The exhibition made a big impression on me - it
was a succinct realisation of my ideas.
Left The suspended Sea Harrier at the exhibition.
