My last post showed latent images that I made in the Summer of 2016 at a revisited Edgelands site. Another long running project I am engaged in is making a documentary record of the seemingly endless changes presented to us along the docklands of the Orwell. I am very grateful to Richard Lister and his […]
Three masted topsail schooner
Following on from yesterday I thought I’d look out an old favourite of mine in my archive. My records show this was made in 1979, an auspicious year as that is when I tied the knot with Mrs.O and also when I circumnavigated Great Britain on HMCC Searcher. So this image had to be made […]
Times past
Following on from the news I got the other day, I dug out my old negative archive. I have a new archive, also of negatives and mainly colour, but revisiting 35mm Black & White I have noticed how frugal I was in making images when we were saving for a deposit to buy a house. […]
And yet another mooring is slipped…..
2015 has been some year. It has had its highs and lows its alphas and omegas. Last night I got news that my first cutter commander, Ron Bayly MBE had slipped his moorings on Boxing Day. He was 92 and an absolute gentleman. I sailed with quite a few other commanders after that inauguaral trial […]