35mm

Call it an epiphany of aware­ness (or, more likely, a side effect of insom­nia) but I decided to go back to the early days of my pho­tog­ra­phy. A time where all I had was a sin­gle lens for my new cam­era and learn­ing how to ‘see’ a scene. My project is as sim­ple as it’s com­plex. To view the world with a dig­i­tal cam­era with the lim­i­ta­tions of film. This is a jour­ney that I rec­om­mend every­one tak­ing to break away from your com­fort zone and learn to see the world with fresh eyes.

The rules for this project was simple:

1. No more than 36 shots in any one session.
2. Min­i­mal post work to the shots, just what’s needed to tell the story and no more. Major retouch­ing like cloning and remov­ing objects are not allowed.
3. One lens to be bound to, no zooms. You have to ‘see’ the world with your lens of choice.

So one early Decem­ber morn­ing in the freez­ing cold and rain, at some ungodly hour (0530–0600 or so) I ven­tured out in search of some mean­ing in the quiet streets of Aberdeen with my 30D and a 35mm f/2 lens for com­pan­ion­ship. The images that fol­low may have a title but many won’t. Each will have a story to tell, but that’s your jour­ney into these streets. So come with me into the cold win­ters morning…

To con­clude it was a inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence, and it’s always worth­while doing some­thing that you don’t usu­ally pho­to­graph. I’ll hes­i­tate to say these shots are great, they’re prob­a­bly not but what they rep­re­sent is part of my jour­ney in pho­tog­ra­phy. I’ll be doing more projects like these in the com­ing year and I will post fur­ther images from these journeys.

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