A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

Greetings once again, and welcome back. Did you miss me?

Well, it's been a totally kick-ass summer, apart from busting a nut working at t'cinema... but hey, I'm all about breaking conventions, me... and what's more unusual than a fine art student that's not balls deep in an overdraft? 

But I digress. I've not had much opportunity for creative outlets the last two months, simply because I had adopted a kind of one or t'other existence - either awake at work or asleep in bed. Occasionally a mixture of both.

However, now I've got some time off before going back to Hatfield for Level Five, I have been digging through some of my old work around the house... Found some proper old ones, like.

These for example - Some snapshots I took in college using a pinhole camera made from a shoebox. These were captured during a very experimental phase in the project and I was still trying to master the process - so they're a bit shit, but still pretty cool lookin'.

Slightly later in my college course - I made a small foray into urban exploring, or urbexing, to pursue a project based around a theme of decay. 

The full set of photos from this trip, an abandoned wing of an old Army communications base, can be found at facebook.com/this.is.patography

Whilst bumming around these various derelict spaces, I found several files full of old paperwork and letters, some dating back to the 1950s. I decided to combine these with my photographs, using both darkroom techniques and Photoshop to overlay the text onto the image.

These were the final pieces for the Decay project. I used the text overlay from previous experimentation, and processed the images using the HDR technique.

Also... I just found this lurking in a forgotten photoshop projects folder. Not really sure what the motivation behind this one was, I just remember it being based on Lonesome Big City Dweller by surrealist photographer Herbert Bayer. That dude had a crazy-ass imagination, make no mistake.

Right, that's enough of memory lane for now; check back tomorrow for another dip into the archives... who knows, there might actually be something worth looking at it in there.

Keep it metal.
- Padfoot