68 of my images are now for sale at the RIBA pictures library which I’m pretty pleased about. Hopefully I’ll have some more up there soon but it’s a good start for now. My images can be found by searching for “Andy Matthews” it’ll return all of my images hopefully.
Finally decided to pop a roll of slide film through the LCA the other day. Whilst using a hipster camera I thought it best to give it the full hipster treatment – cross processing!
Anyway, all a bit green with highly enhanced contrast.
Another film back from Genie Imaging which I’ve only just got round to scanning. Most of these are from Christmas time I think. Kodak T-Max 400 through the Olympus OM-20.
For a long while I stopped buying CDs, books and journals. I don’t know why I stopped, maybe I felt a bit burnt out from my Diploma at Portsmouth or maybe I’d just lost interest. Anyway I’ve started buying books again each month. I kind of think this has something to do with getting interested in Architectural Photography. As well as looking at the Architecture I’m constantly scanning the images to see how they have been done, who the Photographer is etc. I set aside a little money maybe £50 – £60 and then buy a few nice books. Emma also has started doing this, she buys four novels a month and aims to read one a week. She calls hers “Brain Food”, I call mine “Eye Candy”. This month I kind of blew my budget a bit but never mind.
So the books in order are (top left clockwise)…
Happenstance by David Solomons
Underground by David Solomons. Both are available to buy here.
A Constructed View: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman
Henk Snoek: Architectural Photography
Stanton Williams: Volume
Since the LCA arrived back from being fixed I’ve put a roll of Kodak Portra VC through it. It hasn’t been amazing weather recently but pretty pleased with the results. I really like the lens on it. Seems to have a nice effect to it and much sharper than I had thought it would be. Here’s a few of my favourites.
This is such a beautiful idea it’s untrue. I was reminded of it by a post on Warrens’s site.
Looking Into The Past, a Flickr pool devoted to combining old photos of locations, buildings, and people with the present day scene. The ones with the most impact have the photographer holding an old photo in front of the camera lined up with features in the scene.
Summarised from laughingsquid.com
It’s incredible how little some places have changed really. There’s a gallery of some of the best images here. Elliot also noted that you can refine the search in the pool to just London. Not many there yet but hopefully people will take more soon.
Looking Into the Past: Willard Hotel, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC, originally uploaded by jasonepowell
Looking forward to this talk by Morley Von Sternberg. Should be good!
A friend sent me a link to the RIBA Pix site the other day suggesting I put forward some of my photos after seeing this request for new Photographers. I sent an email over and have had some of my images selected for use in the library.
Hopefully it’ll be a good way of getting my name noticed and maybe earning a few royalties from sales. We’ll see. I’ll be shooting a lot more in the coming weeks for the library as they seem to be a bit short on images of contemporary work.
