Postcard Jim's Blog

New portfolio website

postcardjim — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:06:12 +0000

http://www.jamesaddison.co.uk It’s here at last. My portfolio website showcasing my latest work. Have a look!

Do your thing on Boscombe Pier

postcardjim — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:01:57 +0000

Totally unplanned and unrehearsed. Enjoy!

Holidays are coming!

postcardjim — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:36:58 +0000

Multiple exposures

postcardjim — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:26:23 +0000

The Impossible Project

postcardjim — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:23:14 +0000

I cannot wait to buy some of this!

The Impossible Project is trying to create a workable version of the much-loved but now discontinued Polaroid film and have succeeded! Hoorah! I shall be buying in bulk as I cannot wait to work my grandad’s old polaroid camera (seen below).

Even the packaging is beautiful!

(Images taken from the Impossible Project website)

My Polaroid Camera!

Sunny, cloudy, bright!

postcardjim — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:02:50 +0000

I’ve always wondered what my dad was on about when he used the phrase above, but now I understand.

For my birthday I was given two very cool cameras from the 60s. A Kodak Instamatic 100 and another Kodak Instamatic 204. I thought they were worthy of a post at least. You cannot buy the film anymore but I’m planning to buy some expired film to try them out. After a bit of research I discovered that one of them uses an additional ‘flash cube’ (literally a cube that sits on top and swivels with a flash that can only be used once). I can’t imagine that now.

The third picture shows the basic aperture settings for when it’s sunny or cloudy. Also worth showing you is the old packaging for my Canon A-1 bellow thing. Lush!

Oh Golly! I can’t believe they made this into a postcard!

postcardjim — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:18:34 +0000

I’m still a little lost for words. Oh dear… oh dear.

(Found at Wareham Museum, Dorset)

Some oldies but goodies

postcardjim — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:15:55 +0000

Remember that project I did a while back where I left disposable cameras around and asked strangers to take photos? Yeah? Well, i came across them again today and thought I’d showcase some of my favourites.

Slumdog Millionaire

postcardjim — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:07:32 +0000

A small book designed last year which required us to sort out a huge amount of information about the film Slumdog Millionaire. My emphasis was on the shocking facts about the slums in Mumbai.

Life’s a blur

postcardjim — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:32:38 +0000

So, for my 21st birthday I was given a new lomography camera that takes four shots in succession. I really like the bizarre blurry effect it has. Lots of the shots came out brilliantly.

These are the ones that went wrong or what my mother would consider rubbish. ‘But what do I know? I’m not up to date with these sort of things,’ she’ll then say quickly after.

Enjoy!