World Toy Camera Day - 17 October 2009

The weather forecast was for beautiful, crisp autumnal sun. The weather forecast was wrong, at least for the east of England (friends further west were luckier, I believe).

So, knowing the Holga needs quite a lot of light, I fitted it out with the Polaroid back and some Sepia film from PolaPremium (ISO 1500).

I only took three images as it was mostly too gloomy, and one of the shots was too dark. But the Bracken above came out perfect, like a spooky Victorian memory. The tree is nice too.



So two thoughts: Firstly, that sepia film has a really lovely quality, very smooth with a glow to it. Secondly, I hope there was better weather for others!

To see what people have produced, check out the Flickr Group.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore sculpture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Here's some more sculpture that I shot a while ago but failed to put online. It's a very large white figure outside the front of the museum, and in fact looks a bit out of place and slightly too clean. But as ever with Henry Moore, it is full of beautiful shapes, revealing different aspects as you walk around it.

antony gormley - event horizon

Antony Gormley has a fantastic exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London at the moment. As part of the exhibition is a huge outdoors installation covering 1.5 sq kms around the gallery, consisting of figures on the roofs of buildings on both sides of the river.

event horizon gallery