Like some Forest Gump with a camera, I seem to be accidentally wandering in to some couples' special moments ( no, not those kinds of special moments). In the summer it was a Dutch couple in New York and a few weeks ago, walking through The Custard Factory this fine groom and his new wife were by their chauffeur driven car ( a pristine classic Hackney cab) waiting to be whisked away. Although, when I saw them the whisking away was delayed as, ironically, they couldn't find their photographer. Whilst they were waiting, I took a few shots of them and handed them my card. I've not heard from them since, so if you know this groom, let him know I've an extra wedding present for them.
Till next time...
Matt Peers
I was obviously a good boy in 2019, as at Christmas, Santa Claus flew via Japan and got me a 75mm f4.5 shift lens for my Pentax 67II. Where better to test the precise verticals than the clean lines of Milton Keynes…
It has nearly been 12 months since I got my hands on a Rolleiflex 2.8f, and whilst I'm not usually a reviewer of equipment, I'd like to share my experience of using this iconic camera and the inspiration behind me finally owning one.
What you doing?"
"What you doing that for?"
"Why here?"
I get these questions regularly when I'm out shooting, but never more so than my recent couple of visits to Milton Keynes.
This month Brazilian photographer Marcio Cabral was stripped of the much coveted Wildlife Photographer of the Year award because he had faked his winning image by placing a stuffed Ant Eater to create the scene.
It's the UK's only dessert
It's the location of Derek Jarman's garden
It's the site of a nuclear power station...
When photographer Stephen Shore moved to Montana in the early 1980s he didn't take a single picture of the beautiful plains and mountains of his new home for 2 years. His reasoning was that he needed that time to truly see and understand the landscape; to see how the light and land continually change and to get beyond the clichés and excitement of a new view. What then do you do when you only have a couple of weeks or in this case just a day?
More than ever I'm starting to feel my age. Don't get me wrong, I've got the hairline, waistline, 2.4 nuclear family to go with it, but like most men my mental age is usually between 16 - 21.