Sussex Photographer Bernie Greene scratching out a tune while trying not to fall off the roof

Pupak

Forest Row artist Pupak Haghighi-Brinch. This is the second session with Pupak. I could do many more.

I wrote some time ago about shooting portraits and at the time I pondered the idea of making one ultimate image that would be the last word on that particular person. Today that idea seems even more ridiculous to me than I thought at the time of that writing. There are so many people I could spend hours shooting just because I like them as people and want to make interesting pictures of them. Part of it is making pictures and another part is getting to know someone.

London Bus (RM Type)

Fortunately I had a meeting in East Grinstead today. If I hadn’t I wouldn’t have known about this bus being there in the old High Street. There were a bunch of different vintage busses and a larger bunch of enthusiasts taking pictures and buying toy busses and postcards.

I love these busses. They remind me of an age sadly gone from England when the people themselves were responsible for their own health and safety. And I of course love this particular bus for the ads.

Hillary

Hillary is a teacher. She is staying at ARTS House for the weekend up from Devon. At first she approached the sitting with all the enthusiasm of a trip to the dentist. So we chatted about teaching and football for a bit and she relaxed considerably and I got this which I’m really pleased with. I hope she will be too.

I processed it to adjust the palette and contrast

Chair

You might not believe this but this pic took about 5 hours to make. If I had set out to make the image above it would have taken maybe half an hour. But this is in fact a failure. Of great magnitude.

I had set out to make an experiment. It was to be an image that would have allowed you to zoom into it and move around in a similar way to how you can zoom in and move around with Google Earth or Google satelite maps. It began with 23 separate images. But I won’t bore you with the whole story. Suffice to say that Photoshop crashed several times in trying to merge those images properly and that in my haste to get an image up I selected the preview jpg images instead of the raw files to get the job done. The preview images were only a fraction of the size of the originals and so it turned out to be far too small for zooming around in.

But I still like it. I made a painting in 1988 that was very similar. I can now add chairs to my extremely short list of things I love to shoot. So the list now consists of people and chairs. I’m sure someone will see a connection even if I don’t.

trampling corn

Went for a walk with Aled and Rosie in Turners Hill today. He wanted to trample over the farmer’s crop so I got this as evidence.

Dude Let's go bowling

I was in Tescos in Forest Row and saw these skittles. For some reason they called to me so I bought them. Then when the person I had wanted to shoot today didn’t get back to me in time I thought “Let’s go bowling Dude”. Seemed appropriate at the time.

ice pie

25 Cents isn’t bad eh?

Susanne Lawrence

Susanne Lawrence is an artist who lives somewhere between East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells.

Sarah and Rebecca

I was just testing how the camera worked when tethered to a TV. Sarah and Rebecca are always up for a shot and I liked the result. So there.

Count Baron Von Alucard

This is a portrait of my father the Count Baron Von Alucard. You can find out more about him on his website.