smells like stop bath

Ramona Armitage

chris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:35:32 +0000

I had a lovely shoot last week with a model named Ramona.

Ramona hails from Bradford, and got in touch with me through online modelling site net-portfolio.co.uk. She was the first person I’d ever shot that wasn’t someone I already knew, which was a bit scary, but thankfully she knew exactly what she was doing in front of a camera (“too much time watching America’s Next Top Model” she says :), and all I really had to do was point and shoot. Thanks Ramona.

Idle Jack : Volume II

chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:56:32 +0000

So here we go. The rest of them :) Thanks for an awesome night guys. x

All photos – Nikon F90x, Neopan 1600 @ 3200

Idle Jack : Volume I

chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:28:07 +0000

Idle Jack And The Big Sleep played at the Duchess a few nights ago. This is just a few shots from the first couple of films I’ve developed – there’s a couple more hanging up to dry as I write but it is late and I am tired and they can wait till tomorrow.. enjoy.

What a nice night for an evening

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:30:10 +0000

I love spring. Mainly because it’s the precursor to summer and that’s where the fun is, but also because on an evening as the sun starts to set it bathes everything in amazing golden light. A gentler one than the balmy, sticky, sausage-fingered stuff you get midsummer (although that’s nice too), and it just makes everything look, well, nicer. And it’s perfect for taking photographs of. One such evening occurred a few nights ago – so I grabbed my Hasselblad (Klaus), a few rolls of film and headed out for a walk with my housemate Jonic. The sun went down faster than I expected so I only managed to get through one roll (ho hum) but I’m happy with what I got.

Also, it was my first go using slide film. I think I’m gonna find it hard to go back to negatives now…

Hasselblad 500cm, Fuji Provia 100

A walk in the park

chris — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:14:49 +0000

Me and my friend Jaime went for a walk the other day. Met a goose.

Here comes the sun…

chris — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:08:04 +0000

Spring is here at last :)

almost forgot

chris — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:54:33 +0000

I finally got a roll of film developed that had been sitting on my desk for months..

chris — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:16:49 +0000

A couple of pics from the morning of the shoot…

holly’s momma :)

Eighteen hundred seconds before sunrise

chris — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:21:57 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I did a shoot for a good friend of mine, Holly Taymar. Holly’s a musician from York, and frankly, she’s fucking fantastic. Check her out here . The shoot was for the cover of her new album, entitled ‘Waking Up Is Hard To Do’, and involved meeting on the Knavesmire before sunrise to assemble a bed (provided by one Carl Hetherington, Holly’s musical partner in crime and something of a deity himself), and then shooting as the sun came up. It was cold and muddy, but a lot of fun. Here’s the end result.

Round Two

chris — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:07:38 +0000

Hello again. Ok, so it’s been nearly a year since I created (and then, seemingly, instantly forgot about) this here blog. I can’t say for sure what happened – I think when I started it was just because it seemed like ‘the thing to do’ for young photographers/writers etc., and I figured I’d better keep up with the masses. However recently it’s become apparent to me that it really would be worthwhile having somewhere online to present my stuff. Somewhere to direct people when dealing with potential jobs/models etc. So here goes. From now on I’m going to do my best to keep things up to date.

Here are some photos I’ve taken over the past year that I like for one reason or another. In no particular order.