mr. wil

Moooooo!

mrwil — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:05:07 +0000

Not really sure what to say about this one. It’s a cow poking its head over a gate. Shot pretty simplistically, no strobe.

Cute though yeah?

Gate

mrwil — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:02:13 +0000

This one is quite old but it remains one of my favourite images. On my way to Uni in about 2006 I drove past a church, and the combination of light, season, and the speed of my car (I was going slow enough to notice the composition) just grabbed me.

In my car was my Bronica GS-1, loaded with yummy 100ISO Velvia film. Lens was 110mm. The strange confused scale of the leaves against the gate is something I can’t explain, all I can assure you is that the gate is human sized and not Smurf sized.

The Gay Team: 1

mrwil — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:10:37 +0000

Universities set strange assignments. I was told to read a newspaper and then come up with a photo-set inspired by an article. Sadly they didnt have any proper newspapers but being a Media Production course they had piles of the Guardian. One hopes they were there as bedding for the hamsters whose night-time wheel-spinning kept the security guards coffee hot.

The article was just another Conservative MP coming out of the closet. Obviously I photographed dolls looking a bit gay.

Shot on 100ISO Velvia in a Bronica GS-1. Thank you please.

Peek-a-boo!

mrwil — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:32:10 +0000

In November ’09 I shot a wedding. I used a camera, not a gun. It wasn’t like the wedding scene in Kill Bill.

The bride’s daughter was an absolute charmer, and loved the camera. This image is proof of that.

Simulated game; enjoyment proper

mrwil — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:15:42 +0000

This image was one of many from a day photographing a simulated game shooting day in Lincolnshire, for ‘Lincolnshire Life Magazine’.

Simulated game doesn’t mean you shoot at the screen with a ‘frikkin laser’, but rather clays are flushed over the guns in a pattern that goes some way towards simulating the changeable nature of a bird in flight. You aren’t stuck shooting the same clay trajectory all day… they go all over the place.

Most of my articles for Lincolnshire Life Magazine are actually online, but oddly this one doesn’t seem to be. * tear *

My tame programmer

mrwil — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:49:11 +0000

Always trying to find an excuse to play with one my my medium format cameras I convinced my programmer to be my victim.

This image must be 4 years old.

“Yeah Tommy, like ze Germans!”

mrwil — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:10:48 +0000

Every now and then you catch something delightful (as opposed to something frightful… like crabs).

Two wonderfully trained Labradors, on a shoot in Boston (the one in Lincolnshire – nothing at all like Cheers) ignore / don’t see a hare darting through the line. I only wish I had been shooting with a faster shutter speed.

Chef shot to table top

mrwil — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:14:29 +0000

Mark Shakesby is the Chef-owner of Shakesby’s, a restaurant in Horncastle; for Lincolnshire Life Magazine I photographed the prep. and cooking process of a recipe for loin of hare.

I also captured the result.

Black & White Bikes

mrwil — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:36:54 +0000

Through an already happy client we picked up a fellow whose new business venture was to build upon his bike racing experience; quality track-day bikes and aftermarket spares.

Our original plan was to charge the client a small fee each month to tweak his photographs of bikes for sale, but that was completely thrown out of the window when I popped in to offer some assistance. Though we were, admittedly, only working in an out-building it took two Elinchrom 500 flash-heads, a big fat white sheet, and some photoshop to get the bikes as cleanly presented as our design eyes required.

Results speak for themselves though.

Rant

mrwil — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:03:15 +0000

This blog, as my friend Martin commented, comes only 6 years after blogs stopped being “hip”. Thankfully, however, I only follow sheep when I intend to bother one.

So often I will rant discuss with friends the failings of the government or the latest poor driver to work me up in to a Cumbrian frenzy (not too soon is it?!) and it seems slightly unfair that I am only able to irritate educate one person at any time.

Thus, the blog. Once more into the beach, or something.