Tomter Photography http://tomter.net Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Back to faith http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/Bm_kwaBEL88/back-to-faith http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/Bm_kwaBEL88/back-to-faith#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0000 One portrait a day http://oneportraitaday.posterous.com/back-to-faith

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Sorry for the lack of portraits lately! Some of you have been asking me about them. Even the biggest writer has experienced writing blocks, your favourite musicians have done shit albums and I have experinced photography block due to lack of confidence lately. It happens to all of us. I don't think Simon the painter has any problems focusing on his art. He told me to hurry up so he could back to painting. 

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]]> http://tomter.net/back-to-faith/feed/ 0 Bench life http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/wjStzdTvcuY/bench-life http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/wjStzdTvcuY/bench-life#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:22:00 +0000 One portrait a day http://oneportraitaday.posterous.com/bench-life

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In the old days benches were designed with only one usage in mind; to sit on it. Over the last decade or so they have also been designed to keep people away. My favourite bench is the German beer garden benches like the one Lynn and Claire are sitting on. Lynn is a weaver and Claire is her intern.

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Libby is a lovely lady living close to me. I met her today to look at some old photographs of the area I am doing a project on. It was inspiring to meet a great grandmother who talked about photoshop and which camera was the best out of Canon G10 and G12. 

 

 

 

 

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The days of computer geeks as rock stars are numbered. For the last decade or so they have been riding on a wave bigger they could even have dreamed of. I predict the new rock star over the next decade or so will be people with old fashioned craft skills. Now people want to slow down, learn, appreciate skills and enjoy quality. Brian Walker (in the photo) is the local signwriter on my street and he was just finishing of Lucky News when I walked past today. 

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Pink seems to be a colour that people have a strong opinion of. My wife was once told off by a woman in the street for dressing our son in pink, in certain places some men seem awkward when they talk to me if I wear a pink jumper and today a guy came in and said my portraits are great but he could not understand why I had chosen a pink backdrop. It was not good he said. Black or grey is much better I was told. I think I will stick to pink even more now, so I can have some more stories to tell in the future. This is T.D.O. Flaherty. He parked his electric wheelchair outside my pop-up studio and came in for a portrait today.

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Yetty was one of many local Clapton people I photographed on the fifth day of my pop-up studio today in Hackney. Only three more days to go. 

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4th of the pop-up free portrait studio. Shane came in with his friends for a portrait. 

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Max- and Jude posing at the pop-up studio today. The pop-up studio is a week long experiment where I am offering local people around Chatstworth Road in Hackney free portraits and a free print to take home. 

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]]> http://tomter.net/pingles/feed/ 0 Pop is more than music http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/mXOG3SnFlsc/pop-is-more-than-music http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnePortraitADay/~3/mXOG3SnFlsc/pop-is-more-than-music#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:07:00 +0000 One portrait a day http://oneportraitaday.posterous.com/pop-is-more-than-music

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I am doing a pop-up portrait project this week as part of documenting my exciting neighourhood Clapton in London. Everyone coming to the studio in the empty shop on 33 Chatsworth Road gets their portrait taken for free and get to leave with a free copy. I am really greatful to all the generous supporters who made this possible! 

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