Guest post by Anne Akers
It’ll burn off….
Photographers don’t let the rain get in the way of a good project, they just change their project. With assurances that ‘it’ll burn off’ and ‘we just call this a heavy dew’ as the rain drummed on the roof of the Safe Anchor Trust’s broad-beam 46ft E Austen Johnson, the clickeratti from Exposure Leeds set off on a soggy voyage of discovery.
The ten, who had projects ranging from use of infra-red and shoot-a-frame-every-five-minutes were guests of All Hands On Deck, a week of free activities and entertainment involving boats, barges and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
As the E Austen Johnson made stately progress from Rodley to Apperley Bridge and back again it was shadowed by a 36ft-long floating pinhole camera, the Lady Brenda, who had been blacked out and converted into camera obscura by Mike Wallis. The largest camera ever to navigate the canal? You’d better believe it.
With bad light making the obscura even more obscure and changing project plans, there was nothing for it but to sit back and relax in the warmth of the E Austen and the good company, eating far too many cakes and talking about the photos we might have shot. See some of the results here.
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The Culture Vulture & friends will be wafting about on the water tomorrow. Sadly tickets are all gone.
My own blog about the camera is here. Enormous fun, and I’ll be showing people how to make pinhole cameras tomorrow as part of All Hands on Deck. Come along!
Hoping the final two days of All Hands On Deck are awash with sunshine. Lovely post Anne – part of the point of this project is to find out how creative we and participants can be with some tools, a couple of boats, and some lateral thinking. All the information about free round-trips 10am-4pm from opposite the Abbey Inn in Newlay (Bramley area) are here if anyone reading this is curious to join in. https://www.facebook.com/events/625215097512125/