Liverpool in B & W

Part of my ongoing portraits: The Self

After much consideration and doubt...

An image taken a few years back, reworked using Zone System Express 6. I recommend to any photographer the use of Blake Rudis plugins and applications.

Grain Tower is a mid-19th-century gun tower situated offshore just east of Grain, Kent, standing in the mouth of the River Medway. It was built along the same lines as the Martello towers that were constructed along the British and Irish coastlines in the early 19th century and is the last-built example of a gun tower of this type. It owed its existence to the need to protect the important dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850s. Rapid improvements to artillery technology in the mid-19th century meant that the tower was effectively obsolete as soon as it had been completed. A proposal to turn it into a casemated fort was dropped for being too expensive. By the end of the 19th century the tower had gained a new significance as a defence against raids by fast torpedo boats. It was used in both the First and Second World Wars, when its fabric was substantially altered to support new quick-firing guns.

Reviewing some photographs from a collection of a trip to my homeland, La Paz, Bolivia, in search of my grandfathers' lands.

Incubus...

The Self as a figurehead

'Returning to La Paz' is an hommage to Javier Molina's birth place. After living in the USA for a number of years the Bolivian photographer returned to La Paz in the early 1970s. Living abroad gave him a perspective that allowed him to see the city with new eyes. All images with either Fujifilm, Kodak or Ilford film