andy siddens photography

Another cup...

2012-01-21T12:36:00.004Z

of coffee.

Have to add that it is the amazing photo already on the mug (which was taken by Ian Finlay if my research is correct) that makes the photo.

Holy Sky

2012-01-21T02:03:00.000Z

Street Life

2012-01-20T21:57:00.002Z

...just not today

Roundtable meeting

2012-01-09T23:12:00.002Z

Grey Street

Drying day

2012-01-01T14:13:00.002Z

2012

2012-01-01T13:44:00.002Z

...get the logs

Matching tablets

2011-12-30T22:16:00.001Z

Now the tablets match the place mats...

Stepaway Magazine

2011-12-20T23:22:00.008Z

Commissioned for cover shot of Stepaway Magazine, Northern Wanderer Edition. Quite pleased with how this turned out.

Take a look at this great online magazine at...

www.stepawaymagazine.com

Orange match

2011-12-05T06:32:00.003Z

It is important that the colour of your cup matches your goat.

2011/lights/above/me

2011-11-28T20:04:00.002Z

/xmas

Won't fade like pictures that come back again....

2011-11-27T11:16:00.002Z

Inspiration required...

In the underworld...

2011-11-12T12:18:00.003Z

...they are waking, becoming used to daylight.

3 Crossings

2011-10-23T10:56:00.002+01:00

Keep thinking there are no more to be taken here...

Cracks appear across the Tyne...

2011-10-15T11:36:00.001+01:00

...as the Dunston Rocket is slowly demolished.

Not much left standing

2011-10-05T09:53:00.001+01:00

What next?

Reet Hot Chili

2011-09-26T22:53:00.005+01:00

My I recommend the Reet Hot Chili Peppers

http://www.therhcp.co.uk/pages/welcomepag.html

Unreal

2011-09-26T22:48:00.002+01:00

Real?

I thought I had the wrong camera with me.

Sq...

2011-09-18T18:05:00.002+01:00

Looking back through some holiday photos from this year...

Rabbiting On

2011-09-18T15:25:00.003+01:00

The quest continues to do some serious work... but things like this keep happening on the way, damn rabbit. Sitting there, watching and waiting for a moment to strike.

Has anyone ever been killed by a soft toy rabbit?

Frankenstein the camera

2011-09-11T16:57:00.001+01:00

Taken with a right mix of things.

Ex-tractor

2011-09-10T14:46:00.002+01:00

A while since a post, spotted this driving through Gateshead... prompted a quick turnaround and whipping the camera out of the boot.

Slow Burn

2011-07-26T22:51:00.002+01:00

...a project I need to catch up on, the opportunity is disappearing.

That chair again

2011-07-25T23:45:00.002+01:00

not much going on at the moment. Too busy writing about photographs. New inspiration needed.

Sometimes...

2011-07-13T23:23:00.002+01:00

... I don't know which camera to use, and then it comes to me, it's obvious... this one..

Why, it's just, arrrgh. right, it asks me to take different things.

But this is still what I like....

2011-07-11T22:10:00.002+01:00

maybe this is me, ....

Newcastle Quayside Stunner

2011-07-11T20:54:00.002+01:00

Shoppers stunned as worlds shortest tradesman opens stall at the Quayside Sunday Market.

Bit heavy for me

2011-07-11T20:42:00.002+01:00

just messing, bit too much photoshop going on here. i do know something about what I like,,, this ain't it ! Posted just to remind me that I don't like altered images.

Curtains

2011-07-10T22:11:00.003+01:00

Experimenting with colour, subtle works for me. Also the composition,,,, I'm allowing the subject to move closer to then centre than I have in the past.

Bears die in hot cars

2011-07-06T21:29:00.001+01:00

Poor thing, some people just don't care.....

So difficult to do something different

2011-07-04T22:03:00.003+01:00

When you see so many images of a familiar scene, finding a different angle, well it takes a bit of work, and lying in the grass.

...and after all that you know it has been done before, has it ?

Movie Influenced

2011-06-24T19:42:00.002+01:00

Finding inspiration from the goggle box

Its good to take onboard new ideas.

Nothing on again

2011-06-19T00:07:00.001+01:00

Springwatch perhaps

Not good enough for colour

2011-06-13T22:36:00.002+01:00

Listened to a photographer recently who commented that she was not a good enough photographer to use colour. I understand that.

It is something else to worry about.

5 Wheels

2011-06-10T23:11:00.001+01:00

Something for an ongoing project.... makes a change from being stuck in a Rabbit show for 6 hours...

but that is for another post.

Pig's head on the arm of a chair

2011-06-04T15:55:00.002+01:00

Well it was smiling at me begging to be photographed !

I had to.

/number4/goodbye/lastphoto.jpg

2011-05-31T23:29:00.001+01:00

Moving out (again)

3 wrongs

2011-05-26T22:03:00.000+01:00

Composition wrong, focus wrong, colours wrong... but maybe 3 wrongs do make a right ?

Location to remember

2011-05-22T20:08:00.003+01:00

Wow, loving this place,,, need to do something with here... colours are great.

Shadowman

2011-05-18T20:51:00.001+01:00

Walk with me... this is a reject for a project.... well maybe, actually I like it more now.

Black Spot Area / Baltic Lift

2011-05-15T07:22:00.002+01:00

Are there any alternative views of Newcastle Quayside remaining ? Maybe this is the last.

Adrift

2011-05-11T18:10:00.002+01:00

2011 Vintage

Story ?

2011-05-11T18:01:00.003+01:00

Wonder what the story behind this is ?

Having second thoughts about even posting it.

Past Bye / Passer By

2011-05-07T07:23:00.002+01:00

Things to do

The past is my present to your future

2011-04-29T10:37:00.003+01:00

...from a series I am working on, an attempt to emulate the style of HCB. Difficult task.

The Big Day

2011-04-29T08:14:00.002+01:00

So pleased to have been granted such close access,,,, wondering where the crowds are though ?...

Rainbow Drops

2011-04-27T19:12:00.001+01:00

...a few more petals before I move onto something else.

White Drops

2011-04-25T10:41:00.003+01:00

how cute.... not sure what else to say, no idea what they are called...

Have we got a video ?

2011-04-20T09:11:00.003+01:00

To think how much effort went into making these. Jeez

Well

2011-04-18T19:40:00.002+01:00

what do you think ?

Gotta Scoot...

2011-04-18T19:15:00.002+01:00

Autofocus...pah,

more fun when its switched off.

At the car wash...

2011-04-13T16:12:00.003+01:00

...well what else was I going to do while I was waiting ?

Into the light

2011-04-10T20:08:00.002+01:00

Been experimenting shooting into the light, this an example.

Not sure why I like this ! Or even if I do... just trying to break out of some more conventional compositions.

Standing in line

2011-03-31T21:03:00.001+01:00

to see the show tonight.....

Starting the day...

2011-03-30T08:50:00.002+01:00

....with a coffee and a different world.

Studio work for a change

2011-03-26T19:14:00.003Z

Experiments with the new lights proved a little tiresome.... but was worth the effort.

March

2011-03-26T09:39:00.002Z

...onward

Control

2011-03-25T17:50:00.002Z

Keeping street photography alive.... it is not a crime.

Dirty Old Town

2011-03-19T08:31:00.002Z

...but I love it.

One day maybe I will get the chance to do this in a New York side street with a noodle box on the floor.

Compressed

2011-03-16T18:20:00.003Z

the view here seems oppressive,

is there no way in ?

or out ?

Busy

2011-03-16T18:13:00.002Z

over the central at the end of a day.

Tunnel vision

2011-03-15T10:14:00.002Z

...for a project on anticipation.

and as there is a bird in the photograph it seems timely to remind anyone out there that updates to the blog are tweeted....sorry

Twitter: @andysiddens

Leaning

2011-03-12T12:46:00.003Z

From the back catalogue but back to the front.

Step 1

2011-03-12T12:40:00.000Z

The first step outside each day.

Who said that ?

2011-03-11T21:10:00.003Z

The world makes us feel so small sometimes.

Autofocus testing day

2011-03-06T19:35:00.002Z

Spent hours proving that the camera's autofocus hasn't a clue what YOU want it to focus on. If I had wanted this car in focus I would have had to intervene.

A tedious project but I ended up with one or two out of character' photographs.

Mandela Way

2011-03-05T11:53:00.003Z

Surely we could have found a better street than this empty wasteland to honour with the name Mandela.

Three Candles

2011-03-03T23:57:00.002Z

Four candles were funnier though....

U-bahn, Orange

2011-03-01T21:36:00.002Z

Photograph as featured in the new Creative Magazine for Newcastle 'Novel'

The fair rolls into town...

2011-02-26T19:00:00.004Z

unfortunately the ghosts haven't arrived for the Ghost Train.

Devoid of ghosts.

Street Photography

2011-02-22T21:19:00.004Z

This is where it is happening. We need to keep this genre of photography alive. Document how humans live.

Even though the authorities seem to think we are terrorists for doing this.

S-9

2011-02-21T22:34:00.001Z

waiting for the S-9, Berlin S Bahn.

The search for a style.....

2011-02-20T17:50:00.004Z

If there is such a photograph that is my 'style'... this fits the bill well....

B&W, 50mm focal length, selective focus.

Me.

Conversation

2011-02-20T17:23:00.000Z

let your feet do the talking.....

Darkness falls across the land....

2011-02-20T00:35:00.003Z

I'm trying to find a personal style. I keep finding it then losing it, moving on to something different. Enjoying experimenting though. If there is a style amongst all of this is the use of fixed lenses and generally the widest aperture I can use.

Enjoying experimenting with different techniques.

Hmmm...

Blue Sq

2011-02-19T21:19:00.003Z

moving image....

I'm afraid not

2011-02-16T22:12:00.002Z

...in an attempt to return to style.... I present this.

Out of character

2011-02-16T22:04:00.004Z

...flowers are rarely in my viewfinder, but this one crept in during a lack of concentration.

Empire employees on minimum wages shocker...!

2011-02-13T16:44:00.004Z

The Force may be strong.... but it looks like the pay is weak.

As what was II

2011-02-12T03:14:00.002Z

...a different view, a different speed, same thing though

Next stop

2011-02-11T00:42:00.003Z

...from the same project as the previous post, all about the city at night. Somebody on the bus heading for home, perhaps she has had a hard day ?

Looking forward to getting home, closing the door behind her away from the rest of the world.

Waiting

2011-02-09T20:44:00.000Z

...has a movie feel to it perhaps ?.....

Cinematography (from Greek: kinema - κίνημα "movement" and graphein - γράφειν "to record")

One Third

2011-02-09T19:32:00.000Z

Some experimentation for a project I'm working on.... comments ?

Slide from the past

2011-02-06T19:51:00.001Z

early days from the other side of the lens.

Photographer of the original slide photograph unknown.

High Level Revisited

2011-02-05T16:43:00.001Z

... how many have walked here without seeing this colour ?

Change C to K

2011-02-05T16:34:00.000Z

sit taste look up....

Yellow Ribbon

2011-01-30T21:08:00.000Z

and it was all yellow....

The future is bright

2011-01-23T21:16:00.001Z

I did promise some more colour.... hope this pleases.

Dunston Rocket

2011-01-18T17:18:00.000Z

Demolition started 17 Jan 11.... to be continued.

Searching for the Sarsaparilla Trail

2011-01-14T17:06:00.000Z

I'm afraid the photograph does not tie in with the title.... but I'm hoping to take one that does soon.... in an old shop in Gateshead, if it still exists...

COLOUR... just discovered !

2011-01-11T17:52:00.000Z

...and just discovered the work of photographer William Albert Allard... fabulous... he works exclusively in colour. I needed some new inspiration and he is it.... so expect some bright colour here for a few posts ( B&W will return soon though )... colour is difficult, it is something else to worry about in a photograph. Caution required.

Anyway... this an WAA inspired shot....taken New Years Day, Berlin.

Walking into 2011

2011-01-06T17:52:00.000Z

.....time to leave the festivities behind and crack on....

The Godfather

2010-12-28T13:12:00.001Z

Kino International

2010-12-27T21:00:00.000Z

Photographer Fred Herzog inspires me to an amazing degree... google 'Herzog Foot of Main' for one of my favourite photographs.

This is me... not Fred...you can tell... the muted tones, the lines, the tranquility are what I like here.

Christmas Quackers

2010-12-23T15:54:00.000Z

Merry Christmas All...........................

Unhealthy interest !

2010-12-23T15:31:00.000Z

Should I have a fascination with this facility ?.... Something about it, can't put my finger on it.

Berlinspiration

2010-12-17T08:31:00.000Z

Camera manufacturer Leica have been running a campaign this year titled 'Berlinspiration'.... these are some of my Berlinspired moments from 2010.

The Bridges of Tyne & Wear County

2010-10-16T09:43:00.000+01:00

As what was...

2010-10-08T23:55:00.000+01:00

As it was... as it probably still is... as it will be...

I guess... ohhhh.

Church

2010-10-06T17:41:00.000+01:00

Pre-focussed, had no idea what to expect, taken through a church letterbox.

One tree, space, blur, nothing.

2010-10-06T17:37:00.000+01:00