The light was fantastic today so I went and shot in the more open side of the zoo again to make decent images of the viewing platforms and enclosures. I am not worried about using these for my project at the moment, more just trying to get as many of the things I want shot [...]
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Leisure Landscape —
Posts relating to the research for the Leisure Landscape project for my MA
Category Archives: Leisure Landscape
Freezing my b*llocks off in Labour park
Oh god it was cold yesterday, but unfortuately I didn’t realise this until I was standing in the wind with my tripod set up in Labour Park. Well, the wind had hinted at it earlier when I was shooting some billboards with images of trees set up in front of actual trees but the realisation [...]
Botanical Gardens III
Decided one last trip to the botanical gardens was in order after the light had gone last time before I covered the remaining exercise spaces so braved the gloomy looking sky (reminded me of English weather actually when I was actually there).
Turned out to be a wise move (isn’t being motivated to go and shoot [...]
Tai Shan 2nd December 2008
After shooting a lot on Monday I intended to take it easy today and just shoot the wave defenses in Xinghai but the light was interesting and I felt like a hill so decided to stop putting off my Tai Shan visit. Turns out I should have come here in the summer really when there [...]
Botanical Gardens II
I made a second trip to the Botanical gardens in Dalian on the 26th November on a quest to shoot the rest of the exercise spaces there and make the most of the tripod that I didn’t have last time I was there, and have a go at getting slightly different takes on the chairs [...]
A quicky in Xinghai with Mike…
Before I start, in case he reads this, sorry for the title Mike, couldn’t resist really! Anyway, went for a walk done in Xinghai a couple of weeks ago just for a break from the essay writing really, I forget the exact date but it must have been around the 20th of November or so. [...]
Xinghai Square and Eastwards 1st December 2008
Weather today was good for shooting and I’m sure it will be one of the last during this trip to China so I went out and shot a load of film today all from Xinghai Square and Eastwards through the Shell Museum (a giant recreation of a fairy tale castle) and out along Binhai Xi [...]
Beth Dow, Keith Taylor and old processes
I noticed today there have been a couple of Beth Dow’s images up on Flak. For those that don’t know Dow won the book prize on offer from Blurb this year with a series entitled In the Garden that presents a series of visages of man’s encroachment upon nature. You can see the series on [...]
Recent activities
I realise I have not been updating this as much as I possibly could recently so thought I would add something about what I have been working on lately. Today being the last day to finish the 1st draft of my MA dissertation means my head has been in the books recently but I have [...]
On the edges of Labour Park
On a whim, partly because I felt I was yet t have made a successful picture there and partly because I wanted to go exploring, I went back to Labour Park in Dalian a few days ago to work my way up to the top, Lu Shan, and have a look around for more of [...]
Guido Castagnoli
Castagnoli’s work -Provincial Japan, is available to download from his site and is a very interesting look at Japan form a Western perspective, utilising a very western style reminiscent of the work of the new Topographics and also more contemporary artists such as Joel Sternfeld and Mark Power, but with a more snapshot aesthetic in [...]
More Exercise Spaces
Thought these would be better in a separate post to keep things uncluttered. Anyway, here are some more of the spaces cleared for exercise, this time in Xinghai Park.
Xinghai Park again!!!!!!! 29th and 30th October
Just for all the haters out there I spent a couple of days this week in Xinghai looking for images that were completely different than the usual from what is quite possibly the most photographed part of China by the MA course -its an easy location to test ideas out and get used to China [...]
Binhai Xi Lu 25th October 2008
Bit late updating this but thought I would add a little about a shoot I did last weekend. I finally manged to make some images along the coastal road Binhai Xi Lu, or West Binhai Road if you prefer. The one part of the actual road I wanted with the painted tarmac and blue lamppost [...]
Zoo 17th October 2008
Just some more images from the zoo, same shoot as from the images in the previous post but these are destined to live with the work I have been doing over the past few months in relation to the animals who live there.
Dalian Botanical Gardens 20th October 2008
Now I have collected this work from the lab I thought I would add a few of the images rathert han write too much about the place. I have a few ideas for new projects from here and want to return to produce a few more images in the more forested area with a tripod. [...]
Scouting out locations
Seeing as it has been ages since i last posted anything I figured I should update on my movements really. Since Guizhou (I’ll post about that trip a bit later) and the zoo trip the other week I have been wrestling with the dreaded lurgy and also shitty weather so not had the pportunity to [...]
Zoo 10th October 2008
It’s been a while since I posted here so I thought I would mark my return by adding a bit about what I was up to yesterday.
I went with Nick down to the zoo beause he hasn’t been there yet and is looking for more backdrops for his style portraits and I want more from [...]
John Gossage’s “The Pond”
I was reading through some more of the Photobook Vol II by Gerry Badger and martin Parr. I’ll have to add the page number when I get a chance to look at the book again but for now, here is a quote that I liked becasue I feel I should be reading more literature on [...]
Neo-Pictorialism
Just a quick note about how I see Neo-pictorialism defined.
Neo-pictorialists have gone a different way from the lineage of New Objectivity seen originally in August Sander’s work and more contemporally in the work of Sternfeld, Gill, Misrach, Spero and Robertson, and indeed many influenced by the New Topographic movement. Ne-pictrialists have employed staging in the [...]
