Showing posts with label Orford Ness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orford Ness. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Bombing range - # 09/61

The lighthouse stands to guide mariners to safety.

The black tower and huts date from WW I right up until recent times and were used for observing and photographing (with complicated camera systems) the performance of bombs as they fell, first from tiny string and paper planes with unreliable engines right up until the 1950s and 60s when the mighty British V bombers (Vulcan, Victor and Valiant) would release nuclear test bombs from 40,000 ft and the camera systems would track them down observing their trajectory and attitude as they dropped.

Monday, 27 April 2009

The North Sea - # 09/60

Here be Vikings..............at certain times of year the wind sort of just blows them towards England. They have to come. They can't help it.

I grew up by the North Sea. I could sit here for hours trying to capture the greyness, the twinkling light, the turbulence. B&W tonality is (for me at least) the best way to show it.