#264 PHOTOWALK: ADVENTURES AT SEA, PROJECTS AND MAKING STORIES?!
This week the show is not so much on the road, but out at sea! We take your letters and inspirational thoughts to the east coast of England to make a walk in sea fog, before climbing aboard the X-Pilot service vessel navigating ten miles out to photograph a cluster of seven sea forts from WWII, where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea. Our special guest, environmental portrait and advertising photographer Phil Melia talks about making projects. We discuss the fashionable word 'story', introduce the world's most famous darkroom belonging to Jim Sollows, talk happy accidents and more.
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FURTHER REFERENCE: Simon Baxter’s episode, Jim Sollows’ website, an interview with Jason Phang, Matthias Focks’ Harbor Worlds feature, join our FACEBOOK group, please support the show through Patreon.
Per Birkhaug from ‘Norwayland’ finds the confidence to send his picture in for our 365 feature and we discuss the concept of ‘story’.
Documentary project and portrait pictures from our guest Phil Melia.
Matthias Focks, see his 500px link above.
Rob Merkestijn’s incredible eye for a composition.
Ten miles out. My photographs of the Maunsell Forts on Red Sands.
